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There is some really nice sales disc for auction included in the Sotherby's Freddie Mercury - A World Of His Own. MJD this might help shed some light on new sales figures as some are rare and dated. For Instance the sales on this site for SHA in Sweden is estimated at 25,000, however there is a sales disc presented too Freddie for sales in Sweden for SHA in 1977 for 50,000 sales. Even if you not a huge fan of Queen it's well worth a delve into what is for sale from a rock Icons life!
https://www.sothebys.com/en/series/freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own?locale=en
You have to browse through the 6 auction ( on stage and clt2 ) have sales awards listed
Hi Slightlymad!
Thanks for the link, these are indeed really nice. It's rare to get concrete numbers with a date for many of these exotic countries (exotic being not the usual western music industry country). That will help refining our discogs statistics to sales methods and we will obviously take a look at it once we update them. Obviously we still need to be cautious with in-house awards, some can add singles into albums' or stuff like that, but we will check the details when we will be there.
By the way, we added them to the receipts database so that the information is easy to read.
Long before the movie, Queen had outsold Zeppelin by a significant amount.
Yes, overall they had, when including singles, videos, downloads etc but I'm pretty sure in their (Queens) original analysis, prior to the film, they were not significantly ahead on album sales, I think they were either just behind or just ahead of Led Zeppelin.
Queen had, what I like to call "the curse of #2". Check out how many of their singles landed at #2.
Tell me where to get those fact numbers? From record companies? Not e.g Discogs doesn't give any facts, but you can infer. Is It 47027000 fact number to Queen US album sales? Queen's Soundscan number 1991-2012 was 20 m, very near.
I entirely appreciate that. I realise that neither the ASR or CSPC methodology is recognised outside of the Chartmasters website. I was only using it as a point of reference/comparison due to the fact that the people commenting are doing so on this site.
As you say, it's difficult to put together a completely 'bullet proof' system of measuring these things given the radically different methods of music consumption over time.
For what it's worth I neither like or dislike Taylor Swifts' material. She is certainly going through a huge purple patch at the moment though. For my money she isn't in the same league as the artists mentioned as of yet but who knows what the future holds.
Hey folks:
To remind you, this is a Queen discussion and not a discussion about any blonde pretending to be cute album cover poser. If you want to discuss other people, go to respective sections.
Anyway, let's switch to the only relevant issue in this particular discussion:
QUEEN!!!!!!😀 😃👍
Anything else is
OFF TOPIC!!!🧐
Are the digital sales automatically updated or just the streaming numbers? (Curious for all artists)
Thanks
Hi Jav!
Depends on the artist, to make it simple, sales are automatically update for 2023 articles, they are not for older ones.
