the album is very early oasis sounding hence the reason its selling well,its class and reaches a more broader audience than the last few oasis records,its easy listening,upbeat catchy and written by what many see as the greatest songwriter of his generation and up there with the very best of all time!!hes done brilliant with it,alsp the argument about oasis in the digital era,put it this way when oasis were at there peak there was noone bigger simple really,altho they didnt have the biggest selling album that year as a package,sales,singles,tours etc they were by far the biggest most hyped band since the 60s!!if you were to put the digital era into that 90s period they would quite frankly have doubled every album total,but as someone said back then you had to physically go out and buy singles and albums now you just sit there and buy online what you want at discount prices,adele would not have sold as many if itunes hadnt been around,and you would have a music scene today,bring back the old ways!!

Album sales now are a lot less then what they used to be. 700k now would be the equivalent of well over a million copies even a recent as 2005.

www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/02/uk-music-sales-decline-2011

When Oasis were at their biggest people still had to physically get up, go to a shop, and buy a record. It's not that way anymore. New artist have that advantage over those of the past, especially those from the 80's and 90's who's records are not old enough to be considered nostalgic to buy them.

Yep.

This album is huge success and to say "well it hasn't sold as much as DBTT" is ignoring the fact DBTT came out 7 years ago. Album sales were higher and if HFB's were released 7 years ago, it would have a good chance of being the most successful Gallagher related album in terms of UK sales, since BHN.

Even now, HFB's has a good chance of passing SOTSOG and becoming 6th highest selling Gallagher/Oasis related studio album and the 7th largest selling Oasis album overall. That's purely amazing in today's day and age.

Illegal download was already massive in 2005. DBTT sold very well wolrdwilde, the tour was the biggest they ever did, it woudn't have been the case without the succes of the album.

And DBTT was oline illegally long before its release unlike HFB.

Don't diminish DBTT's succes by speculation and what if, dbtt was a great succes. HFB is a great succes in the uk.

Why is this even an argument? Album sales has declined massively in the best decade. Recently, the number one album sold 9000 copies. That says it all.

All Noel can do it sell more than his contemporaries, regardless of how many copies that may be.

Edit: Oh, it's truefaith again, stirring up things.

Good old truefaith. Arguing with fact. Back to the BDI section for you. This part of the forum hasn't been ruined yet and we'd like to keep it that way. Thanks

This "Noel is God" stuff is all in your head, mate.

You're annoyed at something you made up. Hahaha!

What the heck are you doing here truefaith? You criticise me being a troll, when you're no better yourself.

At least my trolling is based on my opinion. This isn't even an opinion. It's a fact that album sales have gone down. Stop being a hypocrite and crawl back to the whole you came from.

That's just not true. Back in 2005, the people who looked for and downloaded leaked albums were those desperate to hear it early i.e. fans. But a lot of those fans would end up buying the physical copy anyway, because they were fans.

Now the people listening off the internet as opposed to buying the physical copy range from proper fans to casual listeners.

The numbers don't lie. Just look at the chart numbers as opposed to living in some parallel universe where truefaith is always right. You can't just say "oh well, look at the big acts". That's not how statistics works.

First and only post since 2004, and it contains more relevant information than all of truefaith's posts put together. Nice one.