Album sales thread

[Tombstone]

Hey gang !!

Noob alert.

I was wondering if someone might be able to help

I am curious about specific sales for AFD.

I am curious about cassette sales vs cd.

More specifically, a breakdown of those sales over the time frame between 1987-1990.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Edit - North American sales, of course.

Thank you.

[slashisvr]

theyv sold more than a few 

[Captain P?l]

Gilby Clarke was the guitarist for the iconic rock band, Guns N' Roses (90 million albums sold), traveling on their legendary and infamous three-year "Use Your Illusion" world tour. He also worked with Michael Jackson, Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Beck, MC5 and on the Freddy Mercury Tribute Concert. He was a recipient of the MTV Video Vanguard Award.


http://rockstar.msn.com/rockstar/supernova   (scroll down for artist description thingie...)

its says 90 mill?! wich doesnt match what the other posts here say...

just wanted to share...

[gnrlies247]

... once I read (I don' remember where) that UYI I & II sold in their first day more than 1 million copies, which made them the fastest seller in one day..... that would be like 500 K each........ I don't know if that's true, or if there's a source for that.... I don't even know if they appear in #1 Billboard charts when they were released......... any comment about this?........

Thanks!


Your totally right!.If you watch the Axl rose: the prettiest star dvd, there's a guy on there who says that the record stores opened at 12 midnight in the states and in 4 hours(i think), they sold 1 million copies of the UYI albums.There were just queues of people who had been waiting for the album and were desperate for it.

[Super-Ecwfan1]

              Rolling Stone Magazine had a list of the top 500 albums of all time and thier sales . From that issue I do remember some of what it was:

AFD: 20 Million

G'n'R Lies : 8 Million

Use your Illusion 1 :  7 Million

Use your Illusion 2 :  7 Million

Spaghetti Incident:  800,000


                                           Of course its hard to really get numbers on this type of thing. The Eagles and thier fans claim that Greatest Hits II is the greatest selling worldwide album ever , but Beatles #1 as newspapers claimed ..broke sales records in a lotta countries and went to 1 almost everywhere. Its been said that album sold over 25 million .

                                              Its just hard to count this type of thing. Lets just say that...Guns n Roses can still move albums and its proof with a Greatest Hits package from a band thats been in-active for years can outsell most bands now who issue Greatest Hits packages.