CSPC: Pink Floyd Popularity Analysis
Digital Singles Sales – Part 2
Ummagumma (1969) – 7,500 equivalent albums
Remaining tracks – 50,000
Atom Heart Mother (1970) – 23,000 equivalent albums
Remaining tracks – 150,000
Meddle (1971) – 75,000 equivalent albums
Echoes – 200,000
One of These Days – 100,000
Fearless – 100,000
Remaining tracks – 100,000
Obscured by Clouds (1972) – 30,000 equivalent albums
Remaining tracks – 200,000
Songs from Meddle are slightly more popular than the remaining 1967-1972 tunes, but this is still far from breathtaking as they combine for just half a million units.
Just out of interest, after Queen, Michael Jackson and The Beatles, are Pink Floyd the biggest selling album artist (all types) in Europe?
Yes, just above Madonna, who obviously sold much more singles.
I wonder how much Abba and U2 are separated from this top 5
ABBA would be #6 with around 70m albums sold (Pink Floyd sold 82m), U2 sold maybe 67m, less than the Stones.
According to Chartmasters – sales in Europe:
Queen – 97,259,000
MJ – 90,730,000
The Beatles – 86,230,000
Pink Floyd – 80,780,000
Madonna – 79,330,000
Rolling Stones – ~70m
Elvis – 58,445,000
Elton John – 53,790,000
U2 – unclear (not in the analysis)
Rod Stewart – 52,348,500
AC/DC – 50,810,000
I think you missed some artists, like Phil Collins (61 m), or 2016 researched Abba and Celine Dion, whose exact Europe totals I can’t discover here, as well as those of the Rolling Stones
Céline Dion sold over 60m albums in Europe, the Stones around 69m. Dan’s list is missing a bunch of acts indeed (Dire Straits, Johnny Hallyday…etc.) and I’ve no idea why he put U2 beneath Elton John…
Thanks! Missed Johnny Halliday myself…
Robbie Williams low 50ms also.
Has the album ‘Wish You Were Here’ lost about a million or so EAS recently?
Pink Floyd are the one of two artists to have two 50+ million albums each. The another one is Michael Jackson.