Posted January 29, 200916 yr GIRLS ALOUD, TAKE THAT AND DUFFY GAIN IFPI AWARD FOR 1 MILLION SALES FOR THEIR ALBUMS. The rapid UK sales of Take That’s The Circus, which became the second-fastest million-seller in history, have helped it to claim a double IFPI Platinum Award. The Universal album, which following its release last December took just 19 days to break through 1m sales in the UK, is one of 15 albums to be recognised by the IFPI in the past month for sales of at least 1m across Europe. The album is one of five to reach 2m pan-European sales during the period and is joined on the list by Sony’s AC/DC album Black Ice and the Universal albums This Is The Life by Amy Macdonald, the Mamma Mia! Soundtrack and Final Straw by Snow Patrol. However, it was another Universal act, Duffy, who claimed the month’s highest accolade, with her debut Rockferry now up to 3m sales across Europe. Nine albums claimed an IFPI award for 1m sales: Enya’s And Winter Came (Warner); Girls Aloud’s The Sound Of Girls Aloud (Universal); Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy (Universal); Johnny Cash’s I Walk The Line: Legend Of Johnny Cash (Universal); Only By The Night by Kings Of Leon (Sony); Seal’s Soul (Warner); The Definitive Collection by Stevie Wonder (Universal); and both Hot Fuss (Universal) and Day & Age (Universal) by The Killers. Source: Music Week. FANTASTIC NEWS! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: Edited January 29, 200916 yr by Colin
January 29, 200916 yr It has sold about 950/960k in the UK, so apparently it has sold 50k in the rest of Europe ^_^ Woo-hooo ! :cheer:
January 29, 200916 yr well dpone to them and im quite happy with a few names on the list that have passed the million mark also
January 29, 200916 yr And besides, a lot of those sales are from the UK. It's a shame it's disqualified from the charts. :(
January 29, 200916 yr If this is million selling through UK and Europe, then i would have thought it would have done it last year? Weren't they on over 820,000 at the start of 2008, and i guess it sold well in Ireland (despite the fact that we never get to know Ireland's sales and less people live there) and then the rest of Europe (if its had a release - i don't actually know if it has or not). But YAH! 1 million!
January 29, 200916 yr even though it is disqualified from the charts in the uk wont it sales still count tho?
January 29, 200916 yr even though it is disqualified from the charts in the uk wont it sales still count tho? Thats what i thought too, it just confuses me lol
January 29, 200916 yr Author Thats what i thought too, it just confuses me lol I hope so. I think at the year-end sales at the end of '09 we will get a final figure of what it sold?
