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Post by jcoutu1 on Aug 20, 2015 18:31:01 GMT -6
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Post by yotonic on Aug 21, 2015 8:05:26 GMT -6
Wow this must include concert sales too?
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Post by tonycamphd on Aug 21, 2015 9:40:05 GMT -6
the top 25 makes sense to me,.. except... Garth Brooks, and he's #2! that blows my mind....
I know tunes from every band or performing artist on that list, i couldn't evoke a Garth Brooks tune with a gun to my head! haha
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Aug 21, 2015 14:34:24 GMT -6
Garth Brooks stumbled into Jimmy Buffett's fan base. Buffet is an interesting character in that he has his own label and goes out of his way to never publish his sales figures. If he did, he'd probably be near the top. He's got the most effective business model I know for an artist and Garth appears to have been following his lead.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Aug 22, 2015 14:34:36 GMT -6
Dang, Led Zeppelin's got some new product out right now, I bet in time they'll outsell everyone except the Beatles.
Yeah, the Garth Brooks thing seems weird, but don't forget, by nature, we equate the best selling with the best music, and then our brain kicks in and say, whoa, wait a minute, McDonalds sells more burgers than anyone else too, and that sure doesn't make them good.
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 25, 2015 18:07:30 GMT -6
Interesting...I thought I heard somewhere where Kenny Rogers had sold 100 million records...
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Post by levon on Aug 26, 2015 7:56:38 GMT -6
This can't be physical record sales, the figures seem very wrong to me. It says somewhere that The Beatles sold over 600 million records. This page claims more than 2 billion. The same website has a ranking that looks quite different. No clue what the true figures are, but those initial ones seem way too low. |
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Aug 26, 2015 12:47:28 GMT -6
Real statistics have always been few and far between.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Aug 26, 2015 14:48:40 GMT -6
Real statistics have always been few and far between. as have my royalty checks too.. |
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Aug 27, 2015 12:22:16 GMT -6
The problem is that labels tend to exaggerate sales figures as a means of getting stores to order up.
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Post by phrazemaster on Oct 9, 2015 23:50:29 GMT -6
the top 25 makes sense to me,.. except... Garth Brooks, and he's #2! that blows my mind.... I know tunes from every band or performing artist on that list, i couldn't evoke a Garth Brooks tune with a gun to my head! haha "Friends in Low Places" "Burning Bridges" Couple I like. |
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Oct 10, 2015 13:55:47 GMT -6
"Friends in Low Places" was where he quite literally bumbled into Buffet's fan base that nobody in the industry had even realized existed.
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Post by mobeach on Oct 11, 2015 8:14:27 GMT -6
The Beatles got #1? they're not even an autotune band!
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Oct 11, 2015 13:23:21 GMT -6
Out-A-Tune?
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Post by Ward on Oct 13, 2015 10:08:10 GMT -6
Real statistics have always been few and far between. Abraham Lincoln is noted for revealing that 87% of all stats on the inter webs have been falsified. I have all his records and don't see him on the list. |
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Post by phrazemaster on Oct 17, 2015 0:39:07 GMT -6
That's because 47% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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Post by tonycamphd on Oct 17, 2015 8:43:28 GMT -6
Just use ur gut instinct!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2015 10:12:39 GMT -6
"Surprisingly 99.8% of all statistics and quotes on the internet are correct."
Ernesto Che Guevara, "The Internet Revolution", 1997
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Nov 14, 2015 10:32:34 GMT -6
Might have been back in 1997.
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