CSPC: Phil Collins Popularity Analysis
Full Length related records Sales – Summary
Here is the most underestimated indicator of an album’s success – the amount of compilation sales of all kinds it generated. Due to the dependency of sales of the original studio albums on these releases, they are a key piece of the jigsaw.
Face Value, Hello I Must Be Going!, No Jacket Required, …But Seriously and Orphan songs all produced between 5 and 10 million sales of compilations and live albums. There is less to exploit from the rest of his catalog although hits from Buster and Tarzan still sell records.
Just one question, how do you guys measure ASR?
Hi Drewwwwww!
You can check explanations and formulas here.
I think it’s would be a very good idea to do the same work for Peter Gabriel and, first, for Genesis…
We’ read here that Phil Collins and Paul McCartney are the only artists who are above the 100 million sales for their work with their solo career AND for their main band. For Macca, the work has been done, and well done, IMO.
But for Phil Collins, we just have a part of the picture… Hope for Genesis CSCP in the next future… Fingers crossed !
Genesis is top 10 on the requests list. You can vote for them here.
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“But for Phil Collins, we just have a part of the picture”
I couldn’t agree more, basically half of his career hasn’t been studied, which is a little strange considering we have Sting/The Police, Black Sabbath/Ozzy, Neil Young/CSNY, Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel…etc.
His total with Genesis would be around 255 million EAS, i.e. more than Madonna. I think he deserves a complete study of his career.