Stargazer1976
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Re: How many albums have Deep Purple sold?
My question is
Does it count when someone bought it on 8track then record then cassette tape and finally cd along with possible 25th aniversary and gold editions as well. I mean how many different times was the same album purchased by the same person and counted as numerous sales. I think that skews the whole idea of total sales and for that reason I tend to agree that 150 million is not out of the realm of possibility.
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9/9/2005, 16:56
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Carramba
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Re: How many albums have Deep Purple sold?
quote: Stargazer1976 wrote:
My question is
Does it count when someone bought it on 8track then record then cassette tape and finally cd along with possible 25th aniversary and gold editions as well. I mean how many different times was the same album purchased by the same person and counted as numerous sales. I think that skews the whole idea of total sales and for that reason I tend to agree that 150 million is not out of the realm of possibility.
Of course it counts when the same person has bought it multiple times. The band is being paid for each purchase, and there is no way of tracking who is making those cash purchases anyway.
I think the media changes have been another goldmine for the classic rockers whose fans like to hold on to their material forever. Of course now with MP3's, it's a different story, eh?
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9/9/2005, 18:01
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Re: How many albums have Deep Purple sold?
They all count, of course. If one person buys one million copies of any one particular album, it's still + always one million copies sold. One million copies of that same particular album bought by that same one person one person on the cassette format would constitute a second million copies sold, and so forth and so on.
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MachineHead 1
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Re: How many albums have Deep Purple sold?
quote: Joannaisback wrote:
Here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_selling_music_artists
Thanks for the website link.
I looked at it and there are cerain points to note:
Firstly, it says at the top of the summary/table of all artists that the numbers are for Albums AND Singles.
Of these it seems to have a column for numbers/millions of albums. This albums column is not always filled in - and it does show some strange anomolies.
It shows that certain big selling artists have sold, say 200 million units, but of which 60 million are albums.
Purple are listed as a total of 100 million "units" - of which most are of course gonna be albums. So DP have probably outsold artists ranked much higher in total "units" - as far as Album sales go.
However, it is difficult to believe out of the hundreds of millions of total "units" that Micheal Jackson has sold that only "14" million are album sales. He sold that alone on each of several albums.
Dare I say that its all a bit bananas.
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16/9/2005, 13:58
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