Wow thats interesting. Albums like Wisemen approaching only sold 2,500! Seriously is there any point in releasing it? Prbably cost more to produce it.
Ghost has to be fairly happy with 320,000 right now.
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Wow thats interesting. Albums like Wisemen approaching only sold 2,500! Seriously is there any point in releasing it? Prbably cost more to produce it.
Ghost has to be fairly happy with 320,000 right now.
the fact that they are $17.99(how much the Cilva album I bought was) doesnt help muchQuote:
Originally Posted by junius
funny how meth sold more than red w/ no video
That's what happens when for every 1 person that actually buys an album, you have at least 10 that download it for free.
I'm surprised priest sold so littlE.Quote:
Originally Posted by mofo
Yeah the camp lo was good imO.
Digi digiknow digi digiknow whaT?
dont see why anyone would be surprised by these numbers. hardly any of these artists are commercially viable and weren't promoted at all.
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Originally Posted by Kick_Back
whats the point? most artists put out shit these days. come on, 4:21 had what 3/4 good songs? the rest was ass, who wants to pay for that.
do ya'll have any feeling if a higher % of people buy (as opposed to dl) "indie rock" type cds compared to rock? i think so, mostly because the packaging-- & album concepts-- are almost always better.
some guys claim to make good $$$ via mixtapes & all but a lot people get used to not copping "the real thing," which is usually just a cd & crappy two-page booklet anyway.
hey they actually updated the list.
Not surprising, I would like to see statistics for all genres. Only records that sold over 2,000 though or the list would be too long.
The thing about Fishscale was that it SHIPPED gold but never SOLD gold. There is a big difference and often you will hear artists and/or record companies brag about how much a certain album SOLD when in fact they are just giving you the SHIPPING numbers, meaning the number of albums that were shipped to record stores. For example, in Ghost's case, Fishscale has SOLD 320,00 copies but SHIPPED gold that means that there are 180,000 copies of Fishscale sitting on shelves in stores right now. Also, as someone else pointed out earlier, these are only US numbers. Combined with overseas sales, I'm sure Ghost did sell gold because Wu is pretty big overseas if I'm not mistaken.
riaa.com doesnt have fishscale listed for a gold album so if the album went gold it went gold internationally.
thanx for the chart it was an intresting read, it's bad to see some of those classic wu cd's do so bad alot of people is missing out on the real hip hop
I hope this is wrong.
Black market militia
killah priest
hell razah
canibus
all were really good albums and deserved a lot more sales than that. Stop downloading all these albums you stupid motherfuckers. Don't know whos actually a fan and not buying these albums but if you are then you are the reason for this.
damn fishscale is sellin quite alot of a year old cd......