I do love the GH has become a bit of a classic. I bet there are many places it could be certified that it isn't now too.

 

A lot of places still require for the label to apply for a certification. I really hope more places implement the automatic certification that BPI does; there's really no reason for them not to now that everything is done automatically via computers anyway.

I found out that Headlines sold 73,000 copies worldwide during the first week of December 2007 and in the 2nd week 63,000.

 

As the World Traffic chart website only publishes the Top 40, I don't know its sales for the rest of the month, January 2008 or even any streams or sales its picked up since then.

 

If you include the 58-59k sales in the UK, it should be around the 200,000 sales mark.

 

Not too shabby considering it had hardly any promo and wasn't even a Top 10 hit in the UK.

I found out that Headlines sold 73,000 copies worldwide during the first week of December 2007 and in the 2nd week 63,000.

 

As the World Traffic chart website only publishes the Top 40, I don't know its sales for the rest of the month, January 2008 or even any streams or sales its picked up since then.

 

If you include the 58-59k sales in the UK, it should be around the 200,000 sales mark.

 

Not too shabby considering it had hardly any promo and wasn't even a Top 10 hit in the UK.

 

Oh it would be really interesting to see how much it did sell worldwide indeed. So around 200k mark isnt great for the spice girls but I guess for the major flop that it was, it is not too bad lol

 

'Melanie C' album chart positions known so far:

 

Germany: #27

Ireland: #80

Belgium Wallonie: 181

BELGIUM Flanders: 132

She really has had a fall from grace in Germany hasn’t she 5 consecutive top 15 albums and now just scraping top 30...

 

Better than version of me though that didn’t even make top 30.

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#37 Auatralia

#9 Scotland

#80 Ireland

 

First page update coming soon.

'Melanie C' charts at #89 on the Spanish Album Charts

According to Wikipedia Northern Star has sold 4 millions copies worldwide. I saw some insta spice fan pages reporting the same numbers.

 

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According to Wikipedia Northern Star has sold 4 millions copies worldwide. I saw some insta spice fan pages reporting the same numbers.

 

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We will never know the actual sales of Northern Star. We know it has sold just short of 900k in the UK (892,935) and it was reported in the 90's it was on sales of 3+ million by Virgin. Since then there have been various reports of between 3-4 million sales so somewhere between them two I guess.

We will never know the actual sales of Northern Star. We know it has sold just short of 900k in the UK (892,935) and it was reported in the 90's it was on sales of 3+ million by Virgin. Since then there have been various reports of between 3-4 million sales so somewhere between them two I guess.

 

True this. I am not sure that it told much more than that over the years to be honest either, as it was discontinued (i.e. not printed anymore) quite back in the early 2000s right? I remember reading that and feeling quite shocked as it was such a ssuccessful album.

True this. I am not sure that it told much more than that over the years to be honest either, as it was discontinued (i.e. not printed anymore) quite back in the early 2000s right? I remember reading that and feeling quite shocked as it was such a ssuccessful album.

 

 

Yeah I'd definitely say it hasn't passed the 4 million mark, maybe 3.5 or just over that with it getting rounded up to the 4 mark?

 

These are the sales Virgin put out for the albums:

Northern Star - 3+ million

Reason - 500,000

Beautiful Intentions - 500,000 (Melanie said it outsold Reason so put it on the same sales)

 

Schizophonc - 2 million

Scream if you wanna go faster - 1+ million

 

A Girl Like Me - 500,000

 

So we have 7.5 million album sales kind of confirmed, although I do wonder where the 500k for Reason and A Girl like me were sold?

Ps watch Jay move this conversation to the worldwide sales thread... :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(I'd do it but I still haven't worked out how to :lol: :lol: :lol: )

Yeah I'd definitely say it hasn't passed the 4 million mark, maybe 3.5 or just over that with it getting rounded up to the 4 mark?

 

These are the sales Virgin put out for the albums:

Northern Star - 3+ million

Reason - 500,000

Beautiful Intentions - 500,000 (Melanie said it outsold Reason so put it on the same sales)

 

Schizophonc - 2 million

Scream if you wanna go faster - 1+ million

 

A Girl Like Me - 500,000

 

So we have 7.5 million album sales kind of confirmed, although I do wonder where the 500k for Reason and A Girl like me were sold?

 

I think BI sold a bit more than that. But there's no way Scream sold that many...

Scream if you wanna go faster - 1+ million

Where?! :wacko:

 

I'd say that even 300,000 is too generous.

 

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I've always wondered myself but they definitely said it had sold over 1 million worldwide. They claimed it was the biggest selling import album of that year in the US too didn't they?

USA imports was probably only a couple of thousands. There's no way SIYWGF sold a million. Maybe shipped, but not sold.

Yeah, Scream was a bit of a flop, hence why she retreated for a while...

Ps watch Jay move this conversation to the worldwide sales thread... :lol:

(I'd do it but I still haven't worked out how to :lol: :lol: :lol: )

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Record labels mean shipped when they talk about 'sold' as when they ship an album they have sold those to retailers. I wouldn't be shocked if Scream shipped 1m but lots ended up unsold in pound shops.

 

Scream opened with 30k+ which would have been all physical it wouldn't be surprising if UK shipments were 200k as I'm sure after opening with decent numbers retailers were confident it would sell well.

Record labels mean shipped when they talk about 'sold' as when they ship an album they have sold those to retailers. I wouldn't be shocked if Scream shipped 1m but lots ended up unsold in pound shops.

 

Scream opened with 30k+ which would have been all physical it wouldn't be surprising if UK shipments were 200k as I'm sure after opening with decent numbers retailers were confident it would sell well.

 

It's also worth remembering that It's Raining Men was a huge hit and probably the biggest solo hit any of them had at that point, so retailers probably had a lot of confidence that Scream was going to sell better than it did. Of course, it being a cover ended up having the same effect that Emma suffered a few years later with Downtown - people ended up not really being that interested in the album since it was just a track that was tacked on to try and sell an album that the label didn't seem to have much faith in.