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Re: How many albums have been sold..


quote:

Coirce wrote:

it was 40 million by 1996.



Only Satriani/Morse era ones probably.

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More than 1 and less than 1 000 000 000 emoticon

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I believe that the figure 0f 130 million sold is probably right. The RIAA is very inaccurate. It does not list "Shades" or "TBOT" as going gold, even though they did according to Purple's first management. I also believe that the RIAA only lists records sold in the states. Purple have probably sold many many more albums outside of the USA. Also, when Purple broke up in 1976, Circus magazine ran an article stating that their sales in the States from 1970-1976 was 36 million albums sold, making them(at that time), the biggest album sellers of all time on the WB Lable. This probably did not include the albums sold on their first lable, Tetragrammaton,(I'll bet Tetragrammaton's list of albums sold is not available anywhere) since they went broke.

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They also had In rock and Fireball listed as going gold
in the U.S. around 1999,huh way off .
Unless maybe they were speaking of the anniversery edition's.

40 million by 1996 is way off as well,
where do you get your source.
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Deep Purple in profile, the 1999 C.D. - I'm sure it said they sold 40 mil by '96. Maybe I just misheard, I do that a lot. emoticon
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They have sold way more than 40 million records by 1996. When counting records sold, most folks seem to only count the number sold in the States. They have sold lots more records outside the States.
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Jon Lord's excellent 'Pictured Within' Oz programme, January 2003 (pre-'Bananas'), records sales of 150 million albums and counting (is that JUST albums?!).

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Record's
so I would have to say that incudes singles,
compilation's and such.
150 huh,judging from that I would have to say
it's well over 100 million,no doubt in my mind.
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If Purple have sold 130 m+ and Whitesnake 50 m+, Rainbow
40 m+ and the rest (Gillan,BN,Hughes for ex) ? m we end up
230-240 m albums sold and the Purple family would be one of the most sucsessful "artists" in the history of music....
And if we start counting singels, videos and dvds.... jesus
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They could well be, and probably are one of the most successful acts of all time. In the early 1980's a News Journalist visiting the USSR wrote in his artical in a News magazine (I forget which one) that, with the exception of a local (Russian) band, Deep Purple were the most popular band in the USSR. His one quote that I can still remember stated "and the band, Deep Purple, is, for some reason, very big over here".
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