Remaining non-events at Soundscan
The following list include various kind of albums with near inexistent Soundscan sales, at 10,000 units or less. They include mostly old albums that have been deleted for long, with no CD release at all. They also involve a few more albums outside of Soundscan’s panel, limited releases and recent albums that haven’t got enough time to amass relevant sales.
A list of 107 albums with estimated Soundscan sales of 410,000 units only. Some may be higher than 10,000 units, but overall that’s the correct ballpark.
We have now reviewed 143 albums in total which add for only 645,000 (410+125+110) units. There is 199 releases left to reach the ground breaking total of 39,5 million.
It looks like CHARTMASTERS needs a better look at 1969s double -FROM MEMPHIS TO VEGAS/FROM VEGAS TO MEMPHIS (490,000).As on CHARTMASTERS (PAGE 13 of 13).The separate ‘studio’ & ‘live’ is muddy. The original 1969-70 charted success (12 on Billboard),found BOTH LPS charting (lower-as ELVIS IN PERSON (BILLBOARD 183) CHARTMASTERS (1,025,000) & BACK IN MEMPHIS (BILLBOARD 80) CHARTMASTERS (175,000) ,in the last half of 1970-as REISSUED LP PRODUCT. This may have (even) confused Whitburn’s Billboard 200?This LP was also a huge C&W charted item, as a double entity. As ‘live’/’studio’ (2) or an single issues ,the physical sales of EACH just… Read more »
I would rate RCA Victor’s “Elvis’ Christmas Album” from 1957 and RCA Camden’s “Elvis’ Christmas Album” from 1970 as two separate albums, because while 8 songs out of 10 were same on both albums, the 1970 release has “If Every Day Was Like Christmas” and “Mama Liked the Roses” songs which were not even recorded in 1957.
Hi Petri!
There are countless albums which saw their tracklist extended after the initial release (basically every big album of the last 12 years to start with!), to be consistent we need to treat these older releases the same way!
I dont see anywhere in the Elvis articles where its noted that RIAA certification of 1 million is units not copies shipped. up to 1974 a GOLD LP is when sales reached $1 million of the wholesale price. That is 33% of $3.98 (1956-1970, 1970-1974 an LP was $4.98). $1 million was equal to about 760,000 copies and 608,000 copies at $4.98. after 1974 a GOLD LP had to sell $1 million AND 500,000 copies. Platinum was introduced in 1975. An LP had to sell $2,000,000 at the wholesale price (1975 LPs increased to $5.98 and $6.98) AND a minimum… Read more »