LOL at these album sales...

[jeromechickenbone]

I'm always hearing people blaming album flops on downloading.  LOL, tell it to these artists:

TOP 50 BILLBOARD ALBUM SALES 2006

1 SOME HEARTS CARRIE UNDERWOOD 3,721,7622

2 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK 3,252,743

3 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS NICKELBACK 3,043,246

4 ME & MY GANG RASCAL FLATTS 2,761,915

5 THE BREAKTHROUGH MARY J BLIGE 2,636,062

6 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS EMINEM 2,576,365

7 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT 2,231,085

8 THE ROAD AND THE RADIO KENNY CHESNEY 2,100,744

9 THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH JOHNNY CASH 2,004,003

10 BREAKAWAY KELLY CLARKSON 1,980,966

11 THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI MARIAH CAREY 1,968,531

12 PCD PUSSYCAT DOLLS 1,898,900

13 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! 20 VARIOUS ARTISTS 1,894,613

14 MONKEY BUSINESS BLACK EYED PEAS 1,869,577

15 UNPREDICTABLE JAMIE FOXX 1,862,372

16 TAKING THE LONG WAY DIXIE CHICKS 1,701,374

17 CHRIS BROWN CHRIS BROWN 1,641,306

18 FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 1,610,932

19 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! 21 VARIOUS ARTISTS 1,609,769

20 FEELS LIKE TODAY RASCAL FLATTS 1,588,937

21 CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR MADONNA 1,566,023

22 KING T.I. 1,538,976

23 ORAL FIXATION VOL. 2 SHAKIRA 1,508,821

24 STADIUM ARCADIUM RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 1,504,477

25 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! 22 VARIOUS ARTISTS 1,472,538

26 FROM UNDER THE CORK FALL OUT BOY 1,385,311

27 BE HERE KEITH URBAN 1,363,899

28 IN MY OWN WORDS NE-YO 1,359,320

29 GREATEST HITS VOL. 2 TIM MCGRAW 1,346,497

30 AMORE ANDREA BOCELLI 1,312,173

31 10,000 DAYS TOOL 1,292,731

32 EXTREME BEHAVIOR HINDER 1,254,263

33 YOUR MAN JOSH TURNER 1,243,589

34 A FEVER YOU CAN’T SWEAT OUT PANIC! AT THE DISCO 1,230,011

35 THE SOUND OF REVENGE CHAMILLIONAIRE 1,203,773

36 HOW TO SAVE A LIFE THE FRAY 1,196,923

37 AMARANTINE ENYA 1,195,177

38 SONGS ABOUT ME TRACE ADKINS 1,168,701

39 B’DAY BEYONCE 1,156,258

40 HYPNOTIZE SYSTEM OF A DOWN 1,121,446

41 IT’S TIME MICHAEL BUBLE 1,119,314

42 SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE KORN 1,103,476

43 WHITE TRASH WITH MONEY TOBY KEITH 1,093,439

44 WALK THE LINE SOUNDTRACK 1,084,775

45 CURIOUS GEORGE(SOUNDTRACK) JACK JOHNSON 1,072,498

46 GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’ SOUNDTRACK 1,070,729

47 ST. ELSEWHERE GNARLS BARKLEY 1,054,384

48 THA CARTER II LIL’ WAYNE 1,051,885

49 DUETS: THE FINAL CHAPTER NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 1,051,137

50 GIRL LIKE ME RIHANNA 1,048,454








Just goes to show you that if the audience perceives the music as QUALITY, it CAN and WILL SELL. 

[floatin_above_everything]

Yeah, but compare these numbers to the years of past.

[jeromechickenbone]

Yeah, but compare these numbers to the years of past.

Yeah, and compare the quality of mainstream albums to the years past. 

But yeah, lets compare some album sales:

Mary J. Blige - Chronological order from oldest to most recent:

official figures according to SoundScan.
What's The 411? - 3,062,511 3xPlatinum
My Life - 2,593,237 2.5x Platinum
Share My World - 2,657,400 2.6x Platinum
Mary - 2,092,870 2xPlatinum
No More Drama - 1,863,975 1.8x Platinum*
Love & Life - 938,232 Gold
The Breakthrough 2,636,062 2.6x Platinum

How about that?  One of the greatest selling albums of her career. 

Mariah Carey sold over $5 million in total, her best selling album in nearly 10 years- from Billboard:http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000891647"Notching the best opening sales week of her career with her eighth studio album, "The Emancipation of Mimi" (Island/IDJMG)...her best previous mark was in 1997 at 235k.

Carrie Underwood selling $3.7 million on her debut.

Pussycat dolls nearly 2x plat on debut

Kellie Clarkson outsold her debut.

Black Eyed Peas have been around since the mid 90's and never blew up till the last few years sales wise.

Cee-Lo sold more albums w/ Gnarls than he ever did with his 2 solos and prolly even Goodie Mob.

And there's more but I'm getting tired...

[floatin_above_everything]

How about the fact, that right or wrong, your an asshole.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Only 5 hip-hop albums (at first glance).

[AlerG]

i'm not sure when you calculated those figures but nickelback is well over 5 million now,

chill

[jeromechickenbone]

How about the fact, that right or wrong, your an asshole.

somebody get this guy a kleenex

[jeromechickenbone]

i'm not sure when you calculated those figures but nickelback is well over 5 million now,

chill

yeah, the list is from 2006 year end totals.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

There's always going to be people that sell well, but the fact of the matter is music sales in general (and especially in hip-hop) are on the decline.

[jeromechickenbone]

There's always going to be people that sell well, but the fact of the matter is music sales in general (and especially in hip-hop) are on the decline.

Yes, overall sales are down.  The whole point of this thread is that if the audience perceives quality, they can still sell quite well.  Sure downloading has eaten into some sales, but it hasn't killed the industry like all the record labels would like you to think.  They're hiding the fact that they don't understand jack shit about real music and the fact that it's the people in charge that have bastardized and tried to re-engineer music into some assembly line product.  THAT IS WHAT HAS KILLED IT, ESPECIALLY HIP HOP & ROCK.

Why isn't porn going broke?  I guarantee you that porn is bootlegged just as much or more than music.  You don't hear any problems there though.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

There's always going to be people that sell well, but the fact of the matter is music sales in general (and especially in hip-hop) are on the decline.

Yes, overall sales are down.  The whole point of this thread is that if the audience perceives quality, they can still sell quite well.  Sure downloading has eaten into some sales, but it hasn't killed the industry like all the record labels would like you to think.  They're hiding the fact that they don't understand jack shit about real music and the fact that it's the people in charge that have bastardized and tried to re-engineer music into some assembly line product.  THAT IS WHAT HAS KILLED IT, ESPECIALLY HIP HOP & ROCK.

Why isn't porn going broke?  I guarantee you that porn is bootlegged just as much or more than music.  You don't hear any problems there though.

I like the porno comparison. You gotta very good points there. And that's on top of labels not wanting to spend money on promting artists anymore. The music industry is fucked up.

[wcsoldier]

You've got a point.. downloading has bad effects on sale without a doubt but the lack of music quality too... plus fact is each kind of music (especially rap) is oversatured by the number of artists , there are more and more competition, it doesn't help either... still this ain't the main factor, people (as I am) are tired of the lack of innovative music and of these "compilations" (25 different for one album)... once again if I like an album, I would buy it (I own like 200 + lps).. I download albums becoz it ain"t safe anymore to buy(without a first listen by downloading) an album by thinking it'll be dope regarding the name of an artist.. Years ago, it was safe to do this.. not anymore

[Tanjential]

not that its not doable but it's not as easy to download a porn dvd and burn it as it is to download a hip hop album and burn it

and yeah that is a factor, america's laziness is incalculable

anyway, "most mainstream rap is about all the same shit"-what I hear the most from your average person on why they don't buy it

Save us Murs and Lupe!

-T