Forum
I absolutely agree. I think it also bears remembering that even the lowest-selling acts that have been studied still reached millions of people with their music and bring joy to plenty of fans. Whether our "fave" sold less or more than another artist, in overall terms they are still successful (and most likely wealthier than most of us can hope to be!)
Hi MJD!
I think I sent a post a little while back offering some assistance to you on this front. I would love to be able to see the website become more profitable for you.
Please let me know if you want to discuss any suggestions or ideas on how to make that happen further. In addition to the ads avenue that you've already started exploring... Continued success!
You counted two albums as one just because they were packaged on one cd. I bet you count Aloha concert as one also, lol even though I have it and it is two....Oh, did you happen to take into account that in 1977 rca posted 247million more dollars in net profit than in 1976? It was their biggest jump in company history percent wise at the time.
Did you account for them shipping 20 million Elvis records a week in the US for the month of sept? And no this isn't a myth, this was reported at the time . Letterman said, "RcA building was the house that Elvis built.
Paul McCartney after visiting Graceland within the last year said, "I used to think The Beatles have sold the most records. But I have now seen the evidence and I have no doubt, it's Elvis"
Elvis album sales in the US are easy, whatever his singles plus eps are certified subtracted from 440 mill. give or take the five million not counted for Aloha as a double lp.
"It’s because with 10 million people, they will be way more likely to share the same culture than if there is 300 million people." I assume you use "most likely" in an attempt to dissuade other blatherskites from challenging such a logically inept statement. Am I right?
Elvis record sales aren't that hard. People have worked on them for decades with the help of Rca/Bmg/Sony execs. You'll notice here it is stated that 3/4 of Presley's album sales have not been accounted for by the riaa.
https://www.elvis-atouchofgold.com/riaa-certifies-elvis-for-18-new-gold-and-platinum-awards/
"The Beatles sold 72-73m albums in the US up to 1980. It is harder to tell for Elvis, his albums up to 1980 included add for 105 million in the US with 10 million coming from Soundscan sales. We then need to remove sales from 1981 to 1990 and unscanned units since 1991 of pre-1980 albums. That puts him in the 80-85 million range up to 1980."
total bullshit,
you need to justify a deduction to fit your narrative. Oh btw, your total for Elvis is demonstrably wrong.
ca.1986...RCA gave an official plaque to Graceland for 1 billion record SALES worldwide. Now let's get your nonsense over with right here....
That announcement if true,
RCA would be under threat by songwriters and publishing companies for any royalties due because he has sold that but they only received royalties based on your source and sale numbers.....
Where are the lawsuits saying, "RCA, officially and publically admitted he sold one billion records", (that's at Least 400 million domestically) which is twice as high as your source.....
So either.....
There are no lawsuits because that official announcement was true and RCA paid necessary royalties.....
OR...... it's "promotion nonsense by an artists record company" and therefore, there are hundreds of songwriters in on the lie because they, what?..... were paid royalties as if that sales figure, one billion, were true so they'd shut up about not getting their money....bwhahahaha
Just be happy, we had Elvis, no body will ever know how many records Elvis actually sold!
Thank you for your amazing work. I have a doubt about Brazilian sales, the collected sales that came from 50s to 70s records are all collected from CD releases using the code number that came in CDs released after 2003?
MJD, It appears the RIAA has re-evaluated Elvis EP's & removed them from his Album total. His album total decreased from 146.5 to 139 million.
Hi Marcus!
Maybe you can rephrase or something since I'm not sure to understand your question. For albums with missing data, LP owners have been used to estimate 50s-70s sales, CD codes got mostly used to estimate catalog sales since the 90s to date.
Thank you! You actually answer my question. I thought the sales of some of his old records came all from CD releases after 2003, when Brazil begun to include codes of shipments in each CD release. 😉
how is the world wide sales figure determined. US sales of Elvis Golden Records is 6xPlatinum, how are the additional 2.8 million determined for the rest of the world
