RIAA numbers for CD's first year?

[SINSHINE]

I can only find the platinum status listed on RIAA's site for CD...not the actual sales numbers thus far (coming up on a year). Anyone know where I can find the number of albums sold (total) for the year so far?

[+Rocker+]

There's nothing offical, except RIAA' status.

[1987]

did they ever release better as a single?  i still think song could have been huge.  sale would have been much better if they followed up CD with another single..   to me better always had that classic GnR sound.. yet it was totally progressive and sound nothing like anything i've heard before.

[faldor]

did they ever release better as a single?  i still think song could have been huge.  sale would have been much better if they followed up CD with another single..   to me better always had that classic GnR sound.. yet it was totally progressive and sound nothing like anything i've heard before.

They did release it as a single, but it didn't seem to be picked up by every radio station.  Not sure why that was.

[HBK]

5.5 millions ??

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

5.5 millions ??

He asked for American sales only.

[HBK]

5.5 millions ??

He asked for American sales only.

mmm..

1 Million + 1

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

5.5 millions ??

He asked for American sales only.

mmm..

1 Million + 1

No.  Not even a million.

[Genesis]

5.5 millions ??

He asked for American sales only.

mmm..

1 Million + 1

No.  Not even a million.

If it isn't a million, how is it certified platinum? I thought RIAA certs were for U.S sales only...

[GNR4L]

did they ever release better as a single?  i still think song could have been huge.  sale would have been much better if they followed up CD with another single..   to me better always had that classic GnR sound.. yet it was totally progressive and sound nothing like anything i've heard before.

They did release it as a single, but it didn't seem to be picked up by every radio station.  Not sure why that was.

Cause radio stations were biased cause it was only Axl in the band.... politics of the music industry.

[HBK]

did they ever release better as a single?  i still think song could have been huge.  sale would have been much better if they followed up CD with another single..   to me better always had that classic GnR sound.. yet it was totally progressive and sound nothing like anything i've heard before.

They did release it as a single, but it didn't seem to be picked up by every radio station.  Not sure why that was.

Cause radio stations were biased cause it was only Axl in the band.... politics of the music industry.

False.

Tommy, Cris. Dizzy. Ashba, Frank. Richard, BBFT Is In GUNS N' ROSES...

Special Guest: IZZY & Sebastian

Good Luck.

 

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

5.5 millions ??

He asked for American sales only.

mmm..

1 Million + 1

No.  Not even a million.

If it isn't a million, how is it certified platinum? I thought RIAA certs were for U.S sales only...

Yes, RIAA is for U.S. sales.

But it was certified platinum because Best Buy purchased 1.3 million units from Universal...they haven't sold all the copies obviously.  You can certify by shipping units, rather than selling them.

[Genesis]

5.5 millions ??

He asked for American sales only.

mmm..

1 Million + 1

No.  Not even a million.

If it isn't a million, how is it certified platinum? I thought RIAA certs were for U.S sales only...

Yes, RIAA is for U.S. sales.

But it was certified platinum because Best Buy purchased 1.3 million units from Universal...they haven't sold all the copies obviously.  You can certify by shipping units, rather than selling them.

Oh, right. The OP wants to know how many were sold. That number is hard to come by. I think Nielson Soundscan keeps track of that but you have to be subscribed to get the info.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

5.5 millions ??

He asked for American sales only.

mmm..

1 Million + 1

No.  Not even a million.

If it isn't a million, how is it certified platinum? I thought RIAA certs were for U.S sales only...

Yes, RIAA is for U.S. sales.

But it was certified platinum because Best Buy purchased 1.3 million units from Universal...they haven't sold all the copies obviously.  You can certify by shipping units, rather than selling them.

Oh, right. The OP wants to know how many were sold. That number is hard to come by. I think Nielson Soundscan keeps track of that but you have to be subscribed to get the info.

Dude, you wanna trip out on something?  You have to be a Billboard subscriber now too for their basic charts!  I remember being able to check out Billboard charts for free not too long ago.

[bolton]

5.5 millions ??

He asked for American sales only.

mmm..

1 Million + 1

No.  Not even a million.

very stupid...they already sertificed as platinum
platinum in us=1.000.000 \copies

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

5.5 millions ??

He asked for American sales only.

mmm..

1 Million + 1

No.  Not even a million.

very stupid...they already sertificed as platinum
platinum in us=1.000.000 \copies

FOOL, did you read what I posted?

[Genesis]

The best numbers I could get using Google: At the end of April 2009, Chinese Democracy had sold 572,578 units. FWIW.

[SINSHINE]

Thanks. Yes, I know CD's platinum cert verifies 1 million copies (shipped). This was official in February.

Long story short, I've got a bet going with a friend of mine that CD would sell (ship) more copies within it's first year of release than Contraband did. I OBVIOUSLY made this bet back when Contraband first came out...had no way to predict the complete lack of promotion for CD or a proper tour for it upon it's release.

We tracked down Contraband's first year sales numbers from RIAA...somewhere around 1.85 million (we rounded it off to 2 million). With less than a week left for CD's first year, I'm trying to find the actual number of units shipped via RIAA's resourses.

Anyone else have a way to track these numbers down?

[falungong69]

is it possible that the media is keeping this information under wraps because they don't want people to know how successful chinese democracy really is?

[FunkyMonkey]

From May 15th...

"Chinese Democracy" was officially certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 3, 2009 for shipments in the United States in excess of one million copies. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the CD has sold 578,000 copies in the U.S. so far.

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