Posted May 9, 201114 yr It'll easily sell 1M in Nov - Dec and at the rate it's going, I think it will reach 3m by October, probably before then. It crosses over loads of markets in a way that James Blunt and Dido didn't. I'll try to remember to resurrect this at the end of the year!
May 9, 201114 yr It crosses over loads of markets in a way that James Blunt and Dido didn't. Ok, why so? I thought it was exactly the same market, albeit a few years on.
May 9, 201114 yr Author To me, she's edgier and therefore hits the young end of the market in a way that the other two didn't. They were marketed in a safer way (some might say blander) and they had equally strong negative as positive reactions. I don't think Adele is having the same negative response, her success is being celebrated and she isn't being marketed as safe. Just my opinion.
May 9, 201114 yr It'll easily sell 1M in Nov - Dec and at the rate it's going, I think it will reach 3m by October, probably before then. It crosses over loads of markets in a way that James Blunt and Dido didn't. I'll try to remember to resurrect this at the end of the year! It will do well in Nov/Dec if she releases a delux version with a massive single on it.
May 9, 201114 yr To me, she's edgier and therefore hits the young end of the market in a way that the other two didn't. They were marketed in a safer way (some might say blander) and they had equally strong negative as positive reactions. I don't think Adele is having the same negative response, her success is being celebrated and she isn't being marketed as safe. Just my opinion. I agree. Adele does seem to appeal to more people
May 9, 201114 yr To me, she's edgier and therefore hits the young end of the market in a way that the other two didn't. They were marketed in a safer way (some might say blander) and they had equally strong negative as positive reactions. I don't think Adele is having the same negative response, her success is being celebrated and she isn't being marketed as safe. Just my opinion. I half agree. I liked Adele's album but I wouldn't (and didn't) go anywhere near Blunt - I think Dido did manage to capture the younger audience as a result of the No Angel album following on from Stan so she is a direct comparable for me. 4 million seems a big ask but it does look like she'll easily clear 3 million so who knows.
May 9, 201114 yr With the Brit awards she will win next year she'll pass 4 million next Spring at the latest.
May 9, 201114 yr I'd say Dido had quite a positive response really, in fact, I'd say their pretty much the same style (even White Flag and Someone Like You are comparable) I think it will clear 3 million by the end of this year, but I think after next year (the BRITs., deluxe edition etc.) she will easily pass 4 million
May 9, 201114 yr It will do well in Nov/Dec if she releases a delux version with a massive single on it. I know deluxe versions of albums will still count as new sales but they really shouldn't! Does anyone have a list of the Top 10 selling albums in the UK? Edited May 9, 201114 yr by mango7
May 9, 201114 yr I'm pretty sure this'll pass Queen and become the biggest selling album of all time here. It is Queen, isn't it?? Greatest hits, over 5 million?
May 9, 201114 yr Actually I've found it... 1 1995 (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Oasis United Kingdom 14× Platinum 4,200,000 2 1992 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits ABBA Sweden 13× Platinum 3,900,000 3 1985 Brothers in Arms Dire Straits United Kingdom 13× Platinum 3,900,000 4 1987 Bad Michael Jackson United States 13× Platinum 3,900,000 5 1990 The Immaculate Collection Madonna United States 12× Platinum 3,600,000 6 1991 Stars Simply Red United Kingdom 12× Platinum 3,600,000 7 1982 Thriller Michael Jackson United States 11× Platinum 3,300,000 8 1981 Greatest Hits Queen United Kingdom 11× Platinum 3,300,000 9 2005 Back to Bedlam James Blunt United Kingdom 10× Platinum 3,000,000 10 1998 I've Been Expecting You Robbie Williams United Kingdom 10× Platinum 3,000,000 11 1995 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette Canada 10× Platinum 3,000,000 12 1998 Come on Over Shania Twain Canada 10× Platinum 3,000,000 13 1977 Rumours Fleetwood Mac United Kingdom 10× Platinum 3,000,000 14 1996 Spice Spice Girls United Kingdom 10× Platinum 3,000,000 (as at 23rd Sep 2010) So who thinks that 21 will eventually become the UK's biggest selling album of all time? Edited May 9, 201114 yr by mango7
May 9, 201114 yr I'm pretty sure this'll pass Queen and become the biggest selling album of all time here. It is Queen, isn't it?? Greatest hits, over 5 million? The list I posted above is from Wikipedia, so I can't guarantee it's correct! Although I always thought that Oasis was the biggest selling album, not Queen.
May 9, 201114 yr ^^ That's not correct is it? Where is Sgt Pepper and also Queen's greatest hits too. edit: that looks like a list of the highest shipment certifications to me.
May 9, 201114 yr How odd that it could go on to become the UK's biggest seller ever :o Maybe she will go on to become one of the all time great singers? It just all seems a little bizarre when I think back to 2008 and everyone laughing at the BBC being hopelessly wrong in the 'Sound of' poll as Duffy became the bigger star despite Adele's more sizeable hype. The BBC are having the last laugh now!
May 9, 201114 yr The top ten studio albums listed in the Virgin book is 1 Beatles - Sgt Pepper (4.9m) 2 Oasis - Morning Glory (4.4m) 3 Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (4.05m) 4 Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (3.94m) 5 Michael Jackson - Thriller (3.87m) 6 Michael Jackson - Bad (3.57m) 7 Simply Red - Stars (3.4m) 8 Shania Twain - Come On Over (3.36m) 9 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (3.24m) 10 James Blunt - Back To Bedlam (3.17m) The only others to have sold 3 million are 11 Verve - Urban Hymns (3.16m) 12 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (3.05m) 13 Dido - No Angel (3.04m) The two MJ albums will have gone up quite a bit as this list predates his death.
May 9, 201114 yr To mango 7, that list definitely isnt correct. IF you read the title that you copied it from, it says it is only for "Top Certifications for Albums in the UK, by BPI" ie shipments. :P The sales list is just below it.... Top Sales for Albums in the UK, 28 July 1956 – 14 June 2009, by OCC 1 1981 Greatest Hits Queen 5,678,610 2 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles 4,908,288 3 1992 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits ABBA 4,610,813 4 1995 (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Oasis 4,421,505 5 1985 Brothers in Arms Dire Straits 4,069,764 6 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd 3,956,177 7 1982 Thriller Michael Jackson 3,825,857 8 1991 Greatest Hits II Queen 3,746,404 9 1987 Bad Michael Jackson 3,554,301 10 1990 The Immaculate Collection Madonna 3,402,160 11 1991 Stars Simply Red 3,401,092 12 1998 Come on Over Shania Twain 3,358,941 13 1977 Rumours Fleetwood Mac 3,253,818 14 2005 Back to Bedlam James Blunt 3,172,069 15 1997 Urban Hymns The Verve 3,167,875 16 1999 No Angel Dido 3,048,208 17 1970 Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel 3,047,242
May 9, 201114 yr I can't remember what but isn't there something weird about the Queen sales and hence why it doesn't appear on some lists?
May 9, 201114 yr To mango 7, that list definitely isnt correct. IF you read the title that you copied it from, it says it is only for "Top Certifications for Albums in the UK, by BPI" ie shipments. :P The sales list is just below it.... Yep, my bad :(
May 9, 201114 yr I think it's incredibly premature to predict such astronomical sales - I'm convinced that a good number of her sales in past weeks came from the media attention given to her unbroken run at #1. With even more weeks at the top now, she's getting greater coverage but in a couple of weeks GaGa will topple her and may remain there until the next big release. She'll still continue to sell well, obviously, but assuming she shifts 1m in the last few weeks, she has to average 50k a week for the next few months for her year-end total to tip 4 million. a big ask.
May 9, 201114 yr I can't remember what but isn't there something weird about the Queen sales and hence why it doesn't appear on some lists?As well as sales of Greatest Hits itself, the OCC also allocated half of the sales of Greatest Hits I and II and one third of the sales of The Platinum Collection (Greatest Hits I, II and III) to sales of Greatest Hits. This resulted in sales being above 5 million for the album. The following is taken from a Music Week supplement in 2009, commentary by Alan Jones: Sgt. Pepper has a fairly modest chart career compared to many albums – it ranks 18th in the longevity league, with 203 weeks on the chart but has been a consistent performer for more than 40 years, accumulating sales of more than 4,910,000 up to the cut-off point a couple of weeks ago. As vast as that tally is, there is one album which has sold more copies – Queen’s Greatest Hits. It is an album which was first released in 1981, cherry-picking their most successful singles, from their introductory 1974 smash Seven Seas Of Rhye to 1980’s Flash. Released on October 26 1981, it debuted at number two behind Shakin’ Stevens’ Shaky album, and started a four-week run at number one the following week. It sold enough copies in the final few weeks of 1981 to finish second to Adam & The Ants’ Kings Of The Wild Frontier in the annual rankings, and has continued to sell at an impressive rate ever since. In 1996, it was issued in a slipcase with Greatest Hits II and in 2000 with Greatest Hits II and Greatest Hits III. As these packages contain the original albums, the decision was made, right or wrong, to share out the sales pro rata. As Greatest Hits I, II and II together have sold 1,680,000, individual tallies for all three have been allocated an extra 560,000 sales. By the same token, Greatest Hits I and II’s combined sales of 132,000 have been split, with an extra 66,000 being added to each. Taking all this into consideration, Greatest Hits has sold a massive 5,780,000 copies. Greatest Hits II, eighth on the list, has sold 3,840,000 copies. Abba’s Gold: Greatest Hits is another perennial whose evergreen status reached a new high last year, when it returned to the top of the album chart, some 16 years after it was first released, in the wake of the success of the Mamma Mia movie. It continues to close the gap on the top two, and has sold 4,648,000 copies. Taking fourth place is the recently disbanded Oasis. As the biggest selling act of the 1990s, each of Oasis’s first three releases make it onto the all-time Top 100 list, but their biggest album, by some distance, with sales surpassing 4,435,000, is (What’s The Story) Morning Glory.
Create an account or sign in to comment