During the 90s the cult status of David Bowie got more and more confirmed with his past songs being often used in TV shows and ads plus his influence visibility increasing year after year. His new material was still failing to impress though. No song from below batch sold more than 100,000 units in download format.
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1 ratio between one album and one digital single.
Tin Machine (1989) – 3,000 equivalent albums
Remaining Tracks – 20,000
Tin Machine II (1991) – 0 equivalent albums
Remaining Tracks – 0
Black Tie White Noise (1993) – 8,000 equivalent albums
Remaining Tracks – 50,000
1. Outside (1995) – 15,000 equivalent albums
Remaining Tracks – 100,000
Earthling (1997) – 23,000 equivalent albums
I’m Afraid Of Americans – 75,000
Remaining Tracks – 75,000
Hours (1999) – 15,000 equivalent albums
Remaining Tracks – 100,000
The Greatest solo artist in history.
That will be Michael Jackson
Best selling solo artist of all time, but not most important or most influential solo artist of all time.
That’s just your opinion, mine is he is very overrated and his sales are poor considering he is supposed to be that good. Half a dozen very good songs doesn’t make you the greatest.
Yes, Jacksons sales and popularity are amazing and his influence immense but Bowie was way, way more diverse than Jackson.
It’s so irritating when people can’t wrap their heads around the fact that sales aren’t everything. Sales are great but they don’t indicate how inventive, creative, influential, etc. an artist was/is.
Who cares. Musical diversity and critical acclaim is so overrated.
Lots of people care, lots of people don’t want to listen to an artist who just releases the same sounding stuff over and over again.
As for critical acclaim, I couldn’t give a toss about it either.
“That’s just your opinion”
It’s all about opinions, except if you believe that talent should be measured by success, which would be very dumb.
Also the version of All The Young Dudes with Ian Hunter and Bowie on vocals on the Mott The Hoople page doesn’t show up on his features.
Just noticed that a number of Bowie songs have recently been been greyed out on spotify and their totals no longer show on the spotify tool report.They’re all on the albums Platinum Collection and Sound + Vision.
Also for some reason the songs credited to Bowie and the Spider on the Bowie at the Beeb album have a separate artist id??