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Androol 01.14.2007 10:37 PM

how many copies has each album sold
 
specifically looking for one that has sold more than a million

finding nobody 01.14.2007 11:03 PM

ONIC YOUTH:
Sonic Youth / 4,100
Bad Moon Rising / 33,000
Confusion Is Sex / 41,100
Starpower / 1,000
Evol / 48,400
Sister / 72,000
Sonic Death / 5,500
Made In The USA soundtrack / 21,000
Daydream Nation / 162,000
Goo / 169,000
Dirty / 329,000
Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star / 246,000
Washing Machine / 159,000
A Thousand Leaves / 66,000
Nyc Ghosts & Flowers 46,000
Murray Street / 63,000
Sonic Nurse / 65,000

I got these from another thread
How Many Records Have SY Sold?

Androol 01.14.2007 11:07 PM

hey youre awesome thanks! sorry i suck at using the search function.

strat0tele 01.15.2007 12:07 AM

Those figures seem very low. I would have thought they would be much higher.

PAULYBEE2656 01.15.2007 10:35 AM

rather ripped sold 28............



..........sorry, bad taste joke!

Inhuman 01.15.2007 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656
rather ripped sold 28............



..........sorry, bad taste joke!


haha, I laughed. All 28 were purchased by a gentleman named Daycare Nation

lalie 01.15.2007 11:47 AM

I read the other thread, but no info about where these figures come from...
I'd really like to know.

lucyrulesok 01.16.2007 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by finding nobody
Starpower / 1,000

Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star / 246,000


what is this starpower? am i dim?

also its surprising that ejstans is their best selling album....

Inhuman 01.16.2007 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lucyrulesok
what is this starpower? am i dim?

also its surprising that ejstans is their best selling album....


mmm, not dim about the starpower part, I was looking at that myself, but you should take a closer look at what the best selling album is :)

lucyrulesok 01.16.2007 12:25 PM

ah i see.

so i AM dim after all!

sun city girl 01.16.2007 12:30 PM

why starpower is there? it was a single... (i must be dim too...)

_slavo_ 01.16.2007 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inhuman
haha, I laughed. All 28 were purchased by a gentleman named Daycare Nation


haha, I laughed too.

at your comment.

greenlight 01.16.2007 02:22 PM

yeah, I saw those numbers on old board.
they're still selling tho, so numbers must be growing, is it?

pantophobia 01.17.2007 05:16 PM

those numbers do seem quite low, it's been stated in a couple of publications that Goo sold more then 250,000 (mentioned as a benchmark number for Nevermind upon release, ultimately passing that mark 50 times over), also Dirty is believed to have sold over 400,000 units by now, as for other albums i have no idea

and if people were wondering otherwise, SY did indeed receive a Gold Album, for the track they did with Cypress Hill on the "Judgement Night'' sdtk, in an interview years ago, Steve mentioned he kept his hanging over the the toilet at his House

Rob Instigator 01.17.2007 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lucyrulesok
what is this starpower? am i dim?

also its surprising that ejstans is their best selling album....


 

Rob Instigator 01.17.2007 05:52 PM

those numbers are not that far off.

Washing Machine 01.18.2007 01:54 PM

Those figures are terrible! Sonic Youth are one of those legendary, mythic bands, you would think Daydream Nation (the holy grail of indie albums) would have reached at a 5mil mark. SY seriously needs a new record company. I could understand the problems of selling a record like NYCG&F (which personally I love, but a fan record really), but an album like Sonic Nurse or Rather Ripped could easily have been as big as their early 90's sales peak....Incinerate, that sounds like a huge hit single, are Geffen just deaf?

Inhuman 01.18.2007 01:58 PM

Geffen are just corporate pigs. All they care about is money. Game sold 5million on The Documentary, and he released Doctor's Advocate, and it's been 2 months and only about 350,000 have been sold, and the beats are more diverse. They don't care if he mentioned geffen one time throughout the whole album, and talked about aftermath every 3rd line, as long as they make a lot of money on it.

Danny Himself 01.18.2007 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pantophobia
SY did indeed receive a Gold Album, for the track they did with Cypress Hill on the "Judgement Night'' sdtk, in an interview years ago, Steve mentioned he kept his hanging over the the toilet at his House


They also got a Gold Record for the alt. version of "White Kross" that was on an NME 7" in 1987.

Rob Instigator 01.18.2007 02:39 PM

that NME single was gold just because there were so many copies of the magazine printed. In the UK to be GOLD, a single has to "sell" 400,000 copies.

weird how in the UK for an album to gold it has to sell 100 thousand copies. for a single to be gold it has to sell 400 thousand copies.




here is a link to the charts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_recording_sales_certification


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