just because they have not sold 3million or more cd's yet, does not mean 3million fans dont have it at home right now sick of listening to it,due to so many playbacks.ps those record counts have not been updated for years-who really knows the true figures?it could be close to 75million by now.

This album was promoted quite a bit in the America. Oasis is not a big band here. It was number 5 on the charts, which is a great achievement, but its all the hardcore oasis fans. I don't know the numbers, but I'm sure the album plummeted in the second week.

and honestly, who cares. The backstreet boys have sold more than double the albums than oasis.

authorities cant even use album sales as a measuring stick on how big a band is anymore.

Illegal downloading has fucked the entire system to hell and it's only getting worse. I'd be willing to bet for every one copy of DOYS sold there's been at LEAST 2 pirated. Just look at the torrent sites, they've been exploding non-stop for a month now.

Until they start charting "illegal downloads", all of this bullshit you idiots run yourself in circles talking about is meaningless conjecture.

the figures of sotsog=3million- was over 8 years ago, hc=3.5million -was over 6 years ago , dbtt=3million -was almost 4 years ago,do you really think that there was no accumalation over the years?, i doubt it

This is from a billboard article from June:



www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i1ca7985186841ea87483ec13fbe528aa

It was too impressive in the US so you can get a picture how it did in the rest of the world.

I doubt DBTT has sold 6 million. Prior to DOYS coming out I have heard in articles here and there that DBTT is their least successful album in terms of album sales.

Who cares? Every kid and their grandma now rip CD's, TV shows, movies, etc... off the internet cos it's bloody easy. That affects everyone. Not just Oasis.

And people need to get over the fact that Oasis isn't that big anymore. This isn't the mid-90's. The musical landscape has changed drastically over the last 15 years. In the end, Oasis still has legions of loyal, devoted fans that flock to the gigs wherever they play and I'm sure they're quite happy with that, even if record sales aren't what they used to be.

Bingo. Record sales, by and large, are down across the board. What did Oasis open with DOYS in the states, 65,000 or so, and it came in at #3? Ten years ago, 65,000 would've been lucky to crack the top 15, much less then top 5. The staying power was non-existent.

It's entirely unfair to compare the sales of DOYS to any album pre-SOTSOG. Hell, it's unfair to compare them to any album pre-HC at this point because of how dominant downloading (LEGAL downloading) has become. DOYS had a few things going for it no other Oasis album had since BHN (espc in the US), it had decent promotion, a catchy single (much more of an impression than Lyla), and it came out at the perfect time to have the biggest impact. The last two albums came out in the summertime when its crowded on the charts with the latest summer hit and all that sort of shit.

At any rate, it's all butter on the bread for them at this point. The UK is all Oasis needs to thrive in terms of their pocketbooks. The UK success fuels them, pays their bills, and easily covers their livelihoods. The rest of the world (including the US, Japan, Europe, Ausralasia, etc.) is icing on the fucking cake for them and allows Liam to buy 5 Maseratis instead of just the 1 he may want.

It's amazing how some of you people put so much goddamn thought into Oasis' bottom line when none of you will ever see a dime of it lol.

yea....look, for example the diversity of offers of shock of the lightning on youtube.....alone 4 or 5 different videos uploaded from 4 of 5 different users make around 2.5 million views(most of them ouside usa....it would be doubled or tripled if it would have been that known like in other parts of the world...lokk at videos of linkin park etc.......i know....tsotl was a little success over there...but ...you know, what i mean)...theres are lots of people in that crowd who usually would have bought the single before internet spread its wings over society

the oasis catalogue is always adding up,its accumalating as we speak.its calculating despite the declining record sales---in its own pace.if you dont believe wikipedia,then put your own touch to it,of course were not going to believe you,but go ahead.

yes X and y has sold 9million
just to show you it's shipment sales

in 2006 X&y was certified with 4million shipment sales in europe alone. source IFPI

In Usa 3million shipment sales source (riaa)

3+4=7million since 2006 in europe and USA

thats another 2million sales left right ??

ok Austrailia 4xplatinum source ARIA = 280,000shipments

3m+4m+280,000= 7,280,000

now canada 4xplatinum 400,000shipments source CRIA

So 3million(USA)+4million(europe)+280,000(Austailia)+400,000(Canada) =7,680,000shipments!!

thats still left with japan,south america,new zealand,mexico etc

you could easily see another 1million + combined in those areas.




Thats why oasis fans seem to edit that page and inflate oasis sales to make oasis look bigger.

its retarded to believe inflated sales.

You can think what u want.. i have given u some sales of DBTT that gives a hint at what it's genral trend would be world wide. but your ignorance begs to differ.

i dont believe it ,that dbtt only sold 2.5 million after 4 years.-2.5 million was just the imediate sales of six months or more.of course ,after that other fans started buying dbtt in their own time,even some of the ones that downloaded it for free.in fact,every time i check the music stores around my city i notice that the oasis section is always getting depleted.dbtt sales added up slowly to a big figure of around what wikipedia suggests,maybe even more.