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Oh that's strange, in the previous message only 4 songs were over 10m EAS. Maybe some millions were sold in a few minutes?
I am very, VERY curious to see your methodoly, if you have one. Maybe it is the case, maybe not and you write random figures?
I don't know, but it was MJD new all time, and every year forward 1965 like a rolling stone, 16.815.000 it was third from 1965 album EAS.
"Highway 61 Revisited" (the album) has cumulated 16.815m EAS since its release in 1965. "Like a Rolling Stone" (the song) has reached 14.220m EAS.
Hi Jazz!
Mikko is correct, record sales and streams are only the visible part of artists' revenues. Each time a song airs on the radio there are royalties. On TV ads or shows, live, on movies, etc. All covers and all side businesses.
When speaking about these catalog purchases, we shouldn't think about charts & sales, but instead think of it as an investment. What matters is the return on it. If you have $400 million, you'll be able to put them into a lot of project/businesses, the choice will be made based on two things, the return on investment expected and the risk. A catalog like the one of Dylan brings little risk. The revenue is safe year after year, not even speaking about what will happen when he will pass away. When an investment is safe in the long run, you can accept a lower yearly return, since time works for you. Even if revenues from Dylan's catalog slow down a bit, it will only take a bit longer to be profitable, and then you can easily expect his passing or more popular covers or exposures on movies that can boost your revenue very fast.
Hi Mikko!
Not sure to understand your question, but if it's about Dylan's popularity in France, yes he gots his first hits there later than elsewhere, from the 70s onwards, the first was Wigman which may seem quite random from elsewhere. Hurricane was seen as his main classic in France until Knockin' On Heaven's Door from the Guns made it his signature tune here.
Bob Dylan 81 year 24.5. By the way he is oldest (living) artist on this site.
Never ending tour ended because the corona 2019. 8.6. 1988-2019, 31 years, 3066 concerts, makes average 99 concerts every year. Total gross little over billion (with inflate about 1, 5 billion). Pollstar registered 1200 concerts, audience size average 5600, grossing 347000 per concert. 3066 x 347000 is over billion. I ordered from Pollstar information. It was low budget tour. 3 buses, persons, my estimate 20.
Last year started new world tour 2021-2014. Rough and Rowdy ways world tour.
Interesting thing. Bob Dylan is only living person in world on whom his own museum been built.
There are only 6 artists in Europe (no USA) with their own museum. El Salvador, Van Gogh, Picasso....
Dylan museum opened in May. 29000 m2, three stairs. It is located Tulsa town, Oklahoma, far from the roaring. Money is not saved.
And let's say, Dylan is glorious painter.
Some say he is most important artist all time. Time magazine chose 100 most important person in last century. Bob Dylan was one and Beatles another. No other musicians. Einstein was most important. But Dylan is still in the road, heading for another joint.
Hei. When this Dylan analysis was done in 2016, i think that Discogs wasn't in use yet. Dylan first album "Bob Dylan" was released in 1962 and it is the 12th most collected of his albums with 33000 collected and 260 reissues, estimated sales was put 1,2 million copies pure sales. Probably sales can be near 3 millions. 1994-2013 (9 year period) it got silver award from UK, can assume 0,3-0,5 million sold in UK. ---
And Japan special editions. Since 1970 for Christmas every year, usually valuable double album with artwork exclusive to Japan made by Sony. These albums wasn't count to Dylan Japan sales. When Dylan arrived to Japan year 1978 for the first time, he broke all records for foreign artist. 8 x Budokan, Tokyo, sold out and 3 x Osaka Hall. 120 000 viewers. Ticket price twice as much as other artists.
It was twice the size of the audience than Queen, Led Zeppelin or Bowie before. It was a record and was broken by the Eagles a few ýears later.
Dylan's Asia and Japan popularity been strong from 1960s. Students played protest songs with Dylan style.
"Bob Dylan" is most collected record of 1962 in whole world. (Discogs). (33801 copies
and( reissues 265 times). 1962-2022 year. It is 60 years. And Chartmasters say it is sold 1,2 million worldwide . It is staple record for many fans and it is very good record, of course. What Chartmasters say about that.
I think that UK is definitely Dylan's best market after US. 2000-2009 Dylan sold 5 million albums in UK (Music Week). Performed 223 concerts (7 with Tom Petty) there. Performed over 200000 people in Blackbushe year 1978, 150000 people in Isle of Wight.
The popularity has lasted almost 60 years. Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) and Italy and Spanish speaken world comes next.
Bob dylan turned 82 yesterday. Says that he exercises one hour a day. It has always been important to him and it has helped e.g songwriting. Boxing, cycling, walking are Dylan's activities.
Has also used up his health. For 45 years heavy smoking, alcohol use but not exactly drugs.
Last month he did a Japanese tour and on 4.6 starts Spanish and Italian tour. I have seen him live 4 or 5 times. I am not going to go to concerts anymore.
Bob Dylan Make you feel my love (1997) has more than billion Spotify streams. Adele 960 million, Ane Brun 28 million, Lea Michele 18 million, that's over 1 billion. +Billy Joel, Helene Fischer&Michael Bolton, Garth Brooks, Michael Buble and many more covers.
First hit was To make you feel my love 1998, Garth Brooks US country hit.
Another one (1) billion Spotify streams, all versions:
Bob Dylan, Knocking on heaven's door (1973)
Guns'n Roses 593 million, Dylan 318 million, Gabrielle 53 million, Eric Clapton 18 million, Raign 27 million, Antony and the Johnsons 23 million, Avril Lavigne and many more artists.
Live and in the movies an enduring favourite.
Someone should update the info for Dylan's last two albums (ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS and TRIPLICATE). The latest tally only includes streaming info for those albums - not album or digital sales. The numbers for Total EAS for those should be much higher.
Rough ways sold maybe little over 500000 physical copies. But let's figure out the sales of Dylan's bootleg boxes, which appear once per year at Christmas time ie. Q4.
Sony Music has announced since 2015 turnover (revenue) of it's artists music products.... Quarterly, q1q2q3q4. They report results as revenue. Will included physical products, digitals, streaming, all together worldwide revenue.
MusicBusinessWorldwide e.g will publish the results thoroughly. Sony artists include Dylan, Springsteen, Celine, Michael Jackson..
And about Dylan. Eg More blood, More tracks was second most profitable recorded music products for the Sony Company period Q4 2018. Travis Scott Astroworld was number 1......Cutting edge, Trouble no more, Fragments all these box sets was inside top ten easily. It is revenue. Worldwide revenue minus Japan.
Dylan first box set was Biography, 1985. Sold 1,1 million copies. And price was 5 x LP i.e 45 dollars.
Dylan has allways been good seller on Amazon.com from which sales can be judged general sales of physical products. They e.g announce the sales of products in their announcement. ( What was sold in the current month. 50-100-200--1k-2k copies, and so on).
Remember, a labels revenue from physical products will mainly be derived from how much they sell it to retail, not how much it sells for at retail.
I don't know about that. Dylan box sets continued to sell and new editions are made. The tapes have been ready somewhere and Jeff Rosen has produced an official bootleg from
them. Simple.
One example. Dylan released Springtime bootleg 2021 sep.17, Q3 period. Same time Sony artist too John Mayer released new album Sob Rock, july 16, 2021, Q3...... On Sony best selling list, (2021, Q3) Dylan is 6th and Mayer 7th. Mayer's record sold 520 000 copies incl. streams in US. Mayer is global star and i checked chart runs from Wiki and i guess some one million sold worldwide (It was disapointment for her and he changed labels). From this you can estimate the selling powers of bootleg boxes.
What is the basis for your estimation that "Rough ways sold maybe little over 500000 physical copies"? And where do the people who compile info for this site get their data? For instance, they list Fallen Angels as having sold 250,000 physical copies. Where does that number come from and why can't someone use the same source to find that data for Triplicate and Rough and Rowdy Ways?
It's silver (60000 copies) in UK. Let's say 100000 now and in US 140000 pure, information from UK.mix site. UK and US sales is about half from worldwide sales. My estimation is 0,5 million.
Thanks! I hope the webmasters of this site will update it with the correct data (and add Shadow Kingdom and the most recent Bootleg Series releases while they're at it).
I hope that too. Dylan has published 6 box sets and "Rough Ways" and "Triplicate" albums after 2016. Dylan is heavy catalogue sellér. Also Nobel literature increased sales of lot, expecially in Asia and Japan. And it is new status for Dylan and one step up.
I think there is some kind of stagnation, when physical sales have not been updated under many legacy artists for 6-7years. I think it is due to the fact the numbers of copies is not known.
Ifpi published the entire recorded production as revenue incl. even performing rights, synch rights.
Dylan's biggest songs is quite different from biggest tracks. On Quora, musician and author Todd Lowry lists Dylan's most profitable songs. Order 1. Make You Feel My Love, Adele's popular version has received over 1.1 billion plays on Spotify. Dare to say that ko. the chapel has amassed 1.6 billion Spotify plays, a standard for movies, a standard song for singing competitions. ......2. Wagon Wheel, the 3rd best selling country song in the world. Darius Rucker's version has been certified 11 platinum by the RIAA. Secor Version 3 Platinum RIAA. That is 14 million in the USA. Popular song around the world. .......3. Blowin in the Wind, which is Dylan's most popular and most profitable anthem of all time Surely over a billion Spotify plays. Only seventh is Knockin on the Heaven's Door and eighth is All Along the Watchtower, which generated 17.3 million EAS performed by Henrix. More than 1.1 billion plays on Spotify for Dylan and Guns'n Roses alone. ...As you can see, cover versions are profitable. If Dylan's EAS is 160 million today, the cover versions probably generate the same amount. It is especially popular in movies, where Dylan is the most used artist before Elvis, Bowie, Springsteen. About 2,000 books have been written about him. In 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the only songwriter to have received it. So yesterday he turned 83 and the concerts continue, 70-80 concerts every year. Corona kept him sidelined for a couple of years. .......Timothee Chalamet is having the best time filming a biopic about him. A very active elderly person.
It is very likely that Quora's Todd Lowry has seen all of Dylan's archives and Universal's and Sony's income from artists. 2020 Dylan sold the publishing proceeds of the song catalog to the Universal company. 400 million was received from them. This income was largely from cover versions, film music. .........In 2021, Dylan sold the Master Tapes to Sony for $200 million. Traveling Wilburys part he sold to Primary Wave. He gave his archive to his own center for 29 million dollars. The real value of the archive is at least 60 million dollars. in any case, everything is in good storage BD center.
