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Pearl Jam ? Not at all, they sold less than 1 million in France, 2.5m in the UK... You're probably right about Maiden though.

Two others : Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair Peter Gabriel - So (around 15m)

Smiley's favorite Radiohead album must be Amnesiac because he asked the same question two months ago 😆 They might be close to 50m EAS, not enough ...

Three albums that I think are likely to be over 15m : Enigma - MCMXC a.D. Savage Garden - Savage Garden Shaggy - Hot Shot

Nah it sold around 5 million, pretty good for a Russian act though.

Santana might qualify as the "best-selling Latin artist of all time", as for Gloria vs Shakira I think Gloria might be a little above.

"I never said they’d become irrelevant, I said their star had fallen considerably in the 80s/90s" Please... You even said : "In the 80s Sabbath ...

"Disparaging comment" ? Relax dude, I literally just asked for evidence... Soundscan numbers for Deep Purple (2006) : Machine Head - 325k Made ...

Their early stuff "wasn't selling well on catalogue" ? I'd really like to know what evidence you're basing this on... And remember that the origina...

“in the 80s and 90s Sabbaths star had fallen considerably” "sure people still listened to and enjoyed their early albums" ... a little contradi...

"As I said in the 80s and 90s Sabbaths star had fallen considerably" Ozzy sold 30 million albums in the US during the 80s and 90s... By comparison,...

"Don’t really get the correlation between what I said and your statement." Well, if your band is considered to be the first metal band a lot of (yo...

"It’s strange that time has been kinder to Sabbath than Purple, who in the 70s were easily the more successful of the two." Different kind of band ...

You mean Tom Petty ? 😉 I'd say around 25m.

"Thats why I said the British have bigger spending power when it comes to music consumption despite their similar GDP." What ?? You never mentioned...

"Is the black album the highest selling album of the soundscan era?" You seem to underestimate catalog sales, most of the black album's sales were ...

"The Bodyguard, Come On Over and Jagged Little Pill all outsold it." By the way, what do you think about Hootie & The Blowfish's 21x platinum c...

GNR were much bigger than Metallica at the time, both Use Your Illusion albums sold about 15 million while the black album was more like 13 million.

I'm sure you're aware that Chinese Democracy wasn't a proper GNR album. Anyway, "bigger" doesn't mean anything. GNR are more famous and Metallica h...

"All cities she removed during the Reputation tour are cities where she grossed from $800k to $2 million or less per night during the 1989 tour. With ...

You make it sound like if Taylor had more dates she would have made as much/more money than Coldplay which is obviously not true... Coldplay's tour wa...

If Taylor only tours in the anglosphere that's her problem 😉 Coldplay tour everywhere, therefore they make more money.

Sorry but I've no idea what you're talking about... You seem to think that The Power Of Love was released after Think Twice ? Actually it was released...

She's indeed very successful in the UK and Australia so she's definitely not "local". That said, I will need some serious data to convince me that she...

"I will say Whitney has always been very big in the UK. Mariah and Celine whilst their names are well known never were truly big" What ? Celine sol...