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Prince : over 100 million album sales or not? Browsing through ths site today I've read 2 conflicting reports , one is a comment on an article on the Uptown fanzine advert that states that "Prince has sold over 100 million copies of his albums".I read that and thought,cool,if its in Uptown they'll have double-checked facts etc and know its correct.Then I've just read a thread here that states that "Prince is 33rd in line of best-selling artists in US history" and has apparently
sold 36.5 million albums in the USA , which would therefore mean hes sold another 64 million outside the USA , which I don't think is too likely from reports I've read.Anyone know anything definite about his sales figures or is everyone just guessing nowadays? | |
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i swear i have heard it was much more than 100million Keenmeister |
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I'm thinking worldwide record sales may be in the 100 mill. status, but LP's :
4U= 1Mil Prince= 2Mil Dirty Mind= 1Mil Controversy= 2Mil 1999= 5Mil Purple R=15Mil ATWIAD= 5Mil Parade= 3Mil SOTT= 3Mil LoveSexy= 1Mil Batman= 4Mil Graffiti= 2Mil D&P= 6Mil O)+>= 2Mil Hits(combined 1/2/B-sides)=5Mil Come= 500K Gold= 500K Girl 6=500K C&D= 500K Emancipation= 1Mil Crystal Ball= 1Mil New Power Soul= 500K Rave= 500K Vault= 500K Prince Hits= 1Mil TRC= 500K XE= (give away) News=100K Did I miss any? I would say 64mil LP's in the States alone. My numbers may be off a bit towards the end but they would only change the amount by about 5 Million.Still that would mean he's way over 36Mil. (man I got way to much time on my hands. It did just snow about 6 inches here in Baltimore tho.) | |
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lmas said: I'm thinking worldwide record sales may be in the 100 mill. status, but LP's :
4U= 1Mil Prince= 2Mil Dirty Mind= 1Mil Controversy= 2Mil 1999= 5Mil Purple R=15Mil ATWIAD= 5Mil Parade= 3Mil SOTT= 3Mil LoveSexy= 1Mil Batman= 4Mil Graffiti= 2Mil D&P= 6Mil O)+>= 2Mil Hits(combined 1/2/B-sides)=5Mil Come= 500K Gold= 500K Girl 6=500K C&D= 500K Emancipation= 1Mil Crystal Ball= 1Mil New Power Soul= 500K Rave= 500K Vault= 500K Prince Hits= 1Mil TRC= 500K XE= (give away) News=100K Did I miss any? I would say 64mil LP's in the States alone. My numbers may be off a bit towards the end but they would only change the amount by about 5 Million.Still that would mean he's way over 36Mil. (man I got way to much time on my hands. It did just snow about 6 inches here in Baltimore tho.) Only problem with this is that you're using worldwide numbers... However, with that "over 100 million" thing, I believe includes singles. And, I'd just like to add that ranking 33rd is a lot lower than I expected. "Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring faith. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal" - Carl Sagan | |
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Who cares? All the gals say hoe if your man's giving up the gold. All the fellas say ruff if you're only giving up the bone. | |
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Some lunatic who used to be a member of this forum, used to always post his reports of Prince's album sales throughout the years...and I saved his stats. Here they are:
For You: 400,000 - 132,000 (US) Prince: 1.25 million (US) Dirty Mind: 1.3 million (US) Controversy: 1.4 million (US) 1999: 5.3 million ( US - 3.8 million) Purple Rain: 16.9 million (US - 13.6 million) Around The World In A Day: 3.3 million (US) Parade: 4.2 million Sign O The Times: 4 million Lovesexy: 2.4 million Batman: 4.7 million (US - 2.8 million) Grafitti Bridge: 1.2 million Diamonds and Pearls: 6.5 million (US – 2.9 million) 0(+>: 2.9 million The Hits/B sides (combinded): 3.2 million (US) Come: 489,067 Black Album: 388,907 Beautiful Experience: 721,000 Gold Experience: 856, 223 (US - 526,000) Girl 6: 427,000 Chaos and Disorder: 682,034 Emancipation: 2.3 million (US – 742,030) N.P.S.: 322,122 (US) Crystal Ball: 248,932 (62,223) The Vault: 129,000 Rave Un 2 The Joy Fantastic: 688,212 Rainbow Children: 289,045 Very Best of Prince: 1 million One Night Alone Live: 295,033 NEWS: 90,000 (so far) Most of them seem to be accurate. Hey look, it's The Artist Formely Known To Sell Records    | |
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Okay - let me say this quick b4 i start 2 cry | |
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TheGoldExperience said: Some lunatic who used to be a member of this forum, used to always post his reports of Prince's album sales throughout the years...and I saved his stats. Here they are:
For You: 400,000 - 132,000 (US) Prince: 1.25 million (US) Dirty Mind: 1.3 million (US) Controversy: 1.4 million (US) 1999: 5.3 million ( US - 3.8 million) Purple Rain: 16.9 million (US - 13.6 million) Around The World In A Day: 3.3 million (US) Parade: 4.2 million Sign O The Times: 4 million Lovesexy: 2.4 million Batman: 4.7 million (US - 2.8 million) Grafitti Bridge: 1.2 million Diamonds and Pearls: 6.5 million (US – 2.9 million) 0(+>: 2.9 million The Hits/B sides (combinded): 3.2 million (US) Come: 489,067 Black Album: 388,907 Beautiful Experience: 721,000 Gold Experience: 856, 223 (US - 526,000) Girl 6: 427,000 Chaos and Disorder: 682,034 Emancipation: 2.3 million (US – 742,030) N.P.S.: 322,122 (US) Crystal Ball: 248,932 (62,223) The Vault: 129,000 Rave Un 2 The Joy Fantastic: 688,212 Rainbow Children: 289,045 Very Best of Prince: 1 million One Night Alone Live: 295,033 NEWS: 90,000 (so far) Most of them seem to be accurate. still that's more than 36Mil. Imagine if Prince had of released the "Black Album" round 1989. or you could count bootlegs. That LP has got have sold about 5million Boot copies | |
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I think for a guy that doesn't do safe commercial albums & has never just basically "sold out" just to sell product..
Prince sold allot! also.. I think if Prince was looking for ($$$) he could have done a HUGE Worldwide Purple Rain tour.. which he probably would have been twice as big & also sold another 5-10 million albums for Purple Rain (IF he wanted to milk it) I mean he could have been on the road with that product for a few years if he wanted! Just touring to every little country.. but.. He hates doing long tours because he has so much to say on new music! He gets bored easy.. we all know how he flips from one thing to the next. [This message was edited Sun Dec 7 22:48:42 PST 2003 by locoarts] | |
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lmas said: Imagine if Prince had of released the "Black Album" round 1989. or you could count bootlegs. That LP has got have sold about 5million Boot copies
Well, I think you're being a little too optimistic. Hey look, it's The Artist Formely Known To Sell Records | |
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locoarts said: I think if Prince was looking for ($$$) he could have done a HUGE Worldwide Purple Rain tour.. which he probably would have been twice as big & also sold another 5-10 million albums for Purple Rain (IF he wanted to milk it) I mean he could have been on the road with that product for a few years if he wanted! Just touring to every little country..
That's not the case with Purple Rain though. Prince only started to sell records overseas long after the success of Purple Rain. I mean, take a look at the amount of shows he did in Eupore from 1986-1996 as compared to North America. There's no comparison. Afer the Lovesexy tour, Prince didn't really start doing major tours in North American again until 1997 (the Act I tour in 1993 was pretty short) - and has consequently toured here just about every year since. Between 1986-1996, Europe was his biggest market... But to answer the original question of this thread: IMO Prince has sold 75 million albums. Hey look, it's The Artist Formely Known To Sell Records | |
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