Posted January 26, 200718 yr Top UK Global Sellers (sales/shipments of each album outside the UK in 2006) : 1. James Blunt : Back To Bedlam - 4.3M 2. The Beatles : Love - 4.2M 3. U2 : U218 Singles - 3.1M 4. Il Divo : Siempre - 2.8m 5= Il Divo : Ancora - 2.2m 5= Robbie Williams : Rudebox - 2.2m 7. Katie Melua : Piece By Piece - 2.0m 8= Corinne Bailey Rae : Corinne Bailey Rae - 1.8m 8= Oasis : Stop The Clocks - 1.8m 8= Snow Patrol : Eyes Open - 1.8m & others... Katie Turnstall : Eye To The Telescope - 1.6m Il Divo : Il Divo - 1.4m Il Divo : The Christmas Album - 1.1m Arctic Monkeys : Whatever People Say... - 1.1m Keane : Under The Iron Sea - 1.0m Scissor Sisters : Ta Dah! - 1.0m Lostprophets : Liberation Transmission - 0.5m Thanks to Music Week and UKMIX. I think music week are going by shipments so it has shipped 600,000 in the UK, so 2.8m worldwide as of the end of 2006. At worst it's total will be 3 million. For an album that is so different and that got no promotion at all from Robbie and hardly any from EMI on TV/Radio to have sold nearly 3m in three months certainly can not be described as a flop. I think I'll email those 3AM *****es
January 26, 200718 yr Author Only 2.2m ? :smoke: 2.8M sold in 2 months is amazing to say the very least for an album that got zero promo and was totally different from his usual material :smoke:
January 26, 200718 yr 2.8M sold in 2 months is amazing to say the very least for an album that got zero promo and was totally different from his usual material :smoke: Hush :smoke: And lets adore Dickhead :wub:
January 26, 200718 yr Notice = Overall - Sales of Albums are really down - or is that my imagination !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 26, 200718 yr No. They are definitely down. It's been a terrible year for record sales apparently. -_-
January 26, 200718 yr Author Definatly way down this year. Here is last years list of best selling UK albums OUTSIDE the UK just for a comparison. -_- 1. Coldplay - X&Y 6.2m units 2. Robbie Williams - Intensive Care 3.8m units 3. Il Divo - Il Divo 3.5m units =. Enya - 3.5m units 4. Gorillaz - Demon Days 3.3m units 5. James Blunt - 3.0m units Other notible entrys; Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better 1.2m units Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth 1.2m units Katie Melua - Piece By Piece 1m units Jamiroquai - Dynamite 900k Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler - Private Investigations 800k Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages 700k Jamie Cullum - Catching Tales 600k Craig David - The Story Goes 600k
January 26, 200718 yr If that's the case - then I dont know what those to Ugly looking spots as in the 3am girls are going on about - it's the same for every artist out there & Robbie is doing a lot better than most. I dont think we will ever again see the the high Album sales again - seeing that the bloody things are available FOC on the net the week before they are actually released. I was actually offered a copy of Rudebox from some t*** that was in some club that he was contributing 7 Euros to & members were all sharing music - hence no need to buy alums - all they need to do was buy one of any album released. I just think its a dangerous trend - musicians need albums sales as they wont get backing from music companies unless their albums sell & will have to depend on revenue from concerts , etc , which very few can do as they are too expensive. I read somewhere today that TT did not make any money on their tour last year & that it would be very difficult for them to make money from a tour this year. Tours need huge sponsorship to make money. Very few artists sell 3.7 million tickets - that is unique. Robbie Williams is a rare entity.
January 26, 200718 yr I think the Net definitely has a lot to do with it. Particularly the surge in Broadband. -_-
January 27, 200718 yr Author Yeah, right, that album is such a "flop". Journalist idiots. :arrr: Yep, it's a shame most people don't know these facts or those bitches would be out of a job. <_<
January 28, 200718 yr Robbie really is a superworldstar: his biggest flop would always be a success for other artists. Nearly 3m sold outside the US is a BIG success not even for robbie,, some american artists would kill somebody to get these sales.. btw: IC must have sold 1m at least worldwide in 2006.
January 28, 200718 yr Author Robbie really is a superworldstar: his biggest flop would always be a success for other artists. Nearly 3m sold outside the US is a BIG success not even for robbie,, some american artists would kill somebody to get these sales.. btw: IC must have sold 1m at least worldwide in 2006. Yeah I'm suprised IC is'nt mentioned. In the 2005 end of year chart it has sold 5.4M worldwide. EMI said on their site back in October it has sold 6.7M now. So 1.3m worldwide in 2006 as of mid October. Most of that would've been outside the UK so it is strange. :wacko:
