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Old 04.13.2006, 02:19 PM   #21
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very low numbers for a major label.
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Old 04.14.2006, 12:26 AM   #22
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are these numbers like the first month totals or something... i mean what they should do is have the number for the whole time the album is out til' the next album IMO
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Old 04.14.2006, 02:27 AM   #23
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SONIC YOUTH:
Sonic Youth / 4,100
Bad Moon Rising / 33,000
Confusion Is Sex / 41,100
Starpower / 1,000
Evol / 48,400
Sister / 72,000
Sonic Death / 5,500
Made In The USA soundtrack / 21,000
Daydream Nation / 162,000
Goo / 169,000
Dirty / 329,000
Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star / 246,000
Washing Machine / 159,000
A Thousand Leaves / 66,000
Nyc Ghosts & Flowers 46,000
Murray Street / 63,000
Sonic Nurse / 65,000

where did you get this info?
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Old 04.14.2006, 11:46 PM   #24
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very low numbers, this is not correct...
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Old 04.15.2006, 03:15 AM   #25
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These numbers are very close to the truth, given they are a few years old. Do you really think just being on a major label makes you sell more records?

These numbers are accually pretty good for an alternative band.
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Old 04.15.2006, 03:33 AM   #26
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SONIC YOUTH:
Sonic Youth / 4,100
Bad Moon Rising / 33,000
Confusion Is Sex / 41,100
Starpower / 1,000
Evol / 48,400
Sister / 72,000
Sonic Death / 5,500
Made In The USA soundtrack / 21,000
Daydream Nation / 162,000
Goo / 169,000
Dirty / 329,000
Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star / 246,000
Washing Machine / 159,000
A Thousand Leaves / 66,000
Nyc Ghosts & Flowers 46,000
Murray Street / 63,000
Sonic Nurse / 65,000

although most of those figures seem fair enough, there's no way "Experimental Jet Set..." has sold 85,000 more copies than "Daydream Nation", no fucking way!! you can't even buy it where I'm from (Melbourne).
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Old 04.15.2006, 04:34 AM   #27
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although most of those figures seem fair enough, there's no way "Experimental Jet Set..." has sold 85,000 more copies than "Daydream Nation", no fucking way!! you can't even buy it where I'm from (Melbourne).


this seems right to me. it was their first album after dirty (their best selling lp) and bullet in the heather was a popular single.
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Old 04.17.2006, 09:35 AM   #28
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thos numbers are right. maybe off by a few hundred or so. daydream nation did not sell like EJST&NS because, as someone posted, EJST&NS had a "hit" single, bull in the heather.

sonic youth don;t sell that many records and like i said before, most get sold to the same fan base.
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Old 04.17.2006, 09:50 AM   #29
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Are they worldwide figures or US?

It's kind of odd seeing EJT&NS selling more than Washing Machine, which was released in a similar time, and is a truely brilliant album.
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Old 04.18.2006, 04:22 PM   #30
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I'd say that Washing Machine was released in a quite different time. Indie rock was over as far as MTV was concerned, and bands like SY definently got a lot less press. The qualities of the albums have little to do with sales.
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Old 04.19.2006, 01:30 AM   #31
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this seems right to me. it was their first album after dirty (their best selling lp) and bullet in the heather was a popular single.

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Old 04.19.2006, 03:34 PM   #32
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although most of those figures seem fair enough, there's no way "Experimental Jet Set..." has sold 85,000 more copies than "Daydream Nation", no fucking way!! you can't even buy it where I'm from (Melbourne).
I believe it. SY were more popular among the masses then than when they released DN like somebody here just said. But DN would of sold quite a bit more if there wasn't the distribution problems the album was having. Lot of people were reading and hearing about the album but couldn't find it in the stores. But those record sales numbers seem right to me though i would guess that they are for US sales only. Maybe i'm wrong though.
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Old 04.20.2006, 02:38 PM   #33
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Old 04.20.2006, 02:45 PM   #34
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those numbers are worldwide!

and JSS is correct in saying that DDN did not sell because Blast First could not or would not keep it stocked on the shelves. The incredible buzz the album had died down without it being accessible to many people who wanted the album.

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Old 04.20.2006, 06:15 PM   #35
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those numbers are worldwide!


wow. and i thought those numbers were low for US sales...
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Old 04.20.2006, 06:58 PM   #36
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There was that period of several years in the mid 90s when their entire pre-DGC catalog was out of print. I remember having to wait for the reissues to get Evol and CIS on CD. Even with that, those numbers still seem low.
They also seem low because in the early 90s you could walk into any old Sam Goody or other mall-based music store and find all the 80s releases. SST must have had good distro.
I find it hard to believe that I'm one of only 4100 people that owns the first EP, or one of the 1000 to own Starpower.
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Old 04.21.2006, 09:50 AM   #37
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starpower. I own that to. thatw as a 12" vinyl release only. I bet they only pressed 1500 copies of that.

The original EP was released on glen branca's label, a tiny independent label, and they only made around 10 thousand vinyl and caseettes. I own it on caseette and have ordered the re-issue on vinyl.
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Old 04.21.2006, 10:02 AM   #38
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SONIC YOUTH:
Sonic Youth / 4,100
Bad Moon Rising / 33,000
Confusion Is Sex / 41,100
Starpower / 1,000
Evol / 48,400
Sister / 72,000
Sonic Death / 5,500
Made In The USA soundtrack / 21,000
Daydream Nation / 162,000
Goo / 169,000
Dirty / 329,000
Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star / 246,000
Washing Machine / 159,000
A Thousand Leaves / 66,000
Nyc Ghosts & Flowers 46,000
Murray Street / 63,000
Sonic Nurse / 65,000

these numbers just seem wrong..
i remember clearly, in 1992 NME had reported goo selling around 500.000 copies and for dirty they estimated sales of nearly a million..

if i'm wrong in any way, i would feel depressed - not that sales figures are everything, but the members are making a living out of this..

*sigh*
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these numbers just seem wrong..
i remember clearly, in 1992 NME had reported goo selling around 500.000 copies and for dirty they estimated sales of nearly a million..

if i'm wrong in any way, i would feel depressed - not that sales figures are everything, but the members are making a living out of this..

*sigh*

well... since they haven't gotten ant gold records they surely haven't sold 500.000 copies in the US. Either that means that these numbers are not worldwide and NMEs are... or that NME was wrong.
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NME is ALWAYS wrong.

the best selling sonic youth album is dirty and as of today it has not sold even 400 thousand copies WORLDWIDE

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