Latin said:

It is posted already here: http://prince.org/msg/5/443962

I'm discussing about the RIAA certification and how it should get recertified, not just the news you always copy and paste.

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I feel like it sold more from 1984 - 1996 then it's given credit. It was just too polarizing and too much of a pheonomenon to just be 13 million! I understand not a lot of people like Prince because of there clouded perception of him, especially during that time, but I'm pretty sure the fans outnumber the haters (for lack of a better term) especially in 84-85. It seemed like Prince ruled the world.

mrdxw1213 said:

I feel like it sold more from 1984 - 1996 then it's given credit. It was just too polarizing and too much of a pheonomenon to just be 13 million! I understand not a lot of people like Prince because of there clouded perception of him, especially during that time, but I'm pretty sure the fans outnumber the haters (for lack of a better term) especially in 84-85. It seemed like Prince ruled the world.

Exactly my point, you'd think after over 20 years that it would've been credited to sell more... But I guess 1996 was the pivotal year Prince and WB were at "war" and I guess WB didn't care to have it recertified by RIAA...

Surely it sold more than 13 million in the U.S. by now. Will be interesting to see the sales numbers for the next few months with the PR DELUXE release, maybe it will be recertified then.

Right now Purple Rain is #37 Biggest Selling Album in U.S. with 13 million...

I believe it is way more than 13 million i would estimate over 16 million at least could even go a few million more based on the upcoming numbers for PR DELUXE sales... To break the TOP 10 Biggest Selling Albums in the u.S. it has to hit 19 million or more.

World Wide numbers it has sold over 25 million though...

Are we talking world-wide sales? If so, then we will never know for sure how many copies were sold. Prince himself said that WB changed the bar codes on copies in some countries in Europe and that those ones were never tabulated and/or accounted for.

I agree that the numbers must be more...at the very least I was thinking about how many Prince fans (and Purple Rain fans and music fans in general) must have bought the PR CD when CDs came into mainstream existence in the late 80s and beyond. Then how many people then might have bought it when Itunes and mp3s took over....that's a lot of sales right there just with the media shifts alone!

kingricefan said:

Are we talking world-wide sales? If so, then we will never know for sure how many copies were sold. Prince himself said that WB changed the bar codes on copies in some countries in Europe and that those ones were never tabulated and/or accounted for.

World Wide it's over 25 million copies.

I'm talking about RIAA which is USA sales only. It was last certified in 1996 at 13 Million, and since then it has surely sold millions and millions more.

feeluupp said:

So last night at the special screening for the PR DELUXE Syracuse Concert DVD, Spike Lee presented The Revolution special mutliplatinum plaques from the RIAA that they never received...

With the upcoming release of PR DELUXE and his with Prince's death last year, Purple Rain has sold alot... Prince was quoted on the Tavis Smiley interview in 2009 that he wanted to audit Purple Rain because he believes it has sold a lot more...

The last time Purple Rain was certified by the RIAA was in 1996 with U.S. sales of 13 million... Lets say Purple Rain didn't sell one copy from 1996 - 2015... In 2016 alone according to the medita traffic charts, Purple Rain sold over 675,000 copies... Now with the recent release of PR DELUXE it surelyy will surpass another million including the sales from PR last year...

My question is when will the RIAA recertify Purple Rain's album sales, it surely has surpassed 13 million copies in the U.S. by now. I would even estimate that it probably is at least 15 million copies or more sold in the U.S. alone, which would make it in the TOP 10 best selling albums in the USA if it actually gets recertitified again.

I already told you that :

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1. PR' sales are about 15.7 millions in the US alone. With the new release, I'm sure it will reach the 16 million mark by the end of the year.

2. WB is not interested in recertifying old albums (it cost money and could reveal they fucked Prince and everyone else involved with their royalties).

feeluupp said:

kingricefan said:

Are we talking world-wide sales? If so, then we will never know for sure how many copies were sold. Prince himself said that WB changed the bar codes on copies in some countries in Europe and that those ones were never tabulated and/or accounted for.

World Wide it's over 25 million copies.

I'm talking about RIAA which is USA sales only. It was last certified in 1996 at 13 Million, and since then it has surely sold millions and millions more.

Worldwide it stands at 23 millions. Outside the USA, last year Purple Rain sold only 200.000 copies.

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I'm sure the reedition will sell even less this year

RODSERLING said:

feeluupp said:

World Wide it's over 25 million copies.

I'm talking about RIAA which is USA sales only. It was last certified in 1996 at 13 Million, and since then it has surely sold millions and millions more.

Worldwide it stands at 23 millions. Outside the USA, last year Purple Rain sold only 200.000 copies.

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I'm sure the reedition will sell even less this year

No. The exact world wide number is this: 675,000

Source: http://www.mediatraffic.d...albums.htm

feeluupp said:

RODSERLING said:

Worldwide it stands at 23 millions. Outside the USA, last year Purple Rain sold only 200.000 copies.

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I'm sure the reedition will sell even less this year

No. The exact world wide number is this: 675,000

Source: http://www.mediatraffic.d...albums.htm

No, learn to read better : 475 k in the US and 200.000 outside the US.

675k are the worldwide sales...

RODSERLING said:

feeluupp said:

No. The exact world wide number is this: 675,000

Source: http://www.mediatraffic.d...albums.htm

No, learn to read better : 475 k in the US and 200.000 outside the US.

675k are the worldwide sales...

It's actually Purple Rain (498,000) in the U.S. Rod

Source: http://www.billboard.com/...rtist-2016