peggysshadow
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Post by peggysshadow on Feb 11, 2015 8:57:14 GMT -5
I'm just curius: How many albums did the first HFB album sell worldwide?
Cheers
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Post by magneticz on Feb 11, 2015 10:25:26 GMT -5
you can find that info on I like that man! |
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Post by Gas Panic on Feb 11, 2015 10:34:48 GMT -5
On wikipedia it says "As of January 2, 2013 the album has sold 739,000 copies in the UK.
Critical reception" I'm fairly sure that figure is correct.
Well over a year down the line it must have shifted a few thousand more surely?
Worldwide I have no idea, google it
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Post by eva on Feb 11, 2015 10:45:44 GMT -5
longwaytorun fucking hell, man.  the next idiot who posts a link to a porn site will be banned
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Post by Frank Lee Vulgar on Feb 11, 2015 11:53:35 GMT -5
From what I gather, it should be 1-1.3 million worldwide. Don't have a source though, that number is from this forum and several interviews.
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Feb 11, 2015 11:57:13 GMT -5
There is already a thread on this. Do people ever use the search option?
It's 1.5 million.
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Post by leak4ever on Feb 11, 2015 12:34:36 GMT -5
There is already a thread on this. Do people ever use the search option? It's 1.5 million. How dare he clutter up this forum with another post about NGHFB sales, what with all the quality posts that go on here. |
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Feb 11, 2015 12:43:36 GMT -5
There is already a thread on this. Do people ever use the search option? It's 1.5 million. How dare he clutter up this forum with another post about NGHFB sales, what with all the quality posts that go on here. Especially the album leak thread. Pure quality. So useful |
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Post by jaq515 on Feb 11, 2015 12:49:40 GMT -5
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Post by lamboasis on Feb 11, 2015 12:57:43 GMT -5
800k is pretty solid. Better than a lot of records, better than Muse's 2nd Law, for example. Better than Kasabian, Foo Fighters, Suck it and see etc. It was the 2nd biggest selling rock album of the 2011 in Uk indeed Maybe it will become a 3xplatinum after the CY era. Good job Noel How many solo artists after leaving a big band did have a great start like Noel? Few. |
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Post by jaq515 on Feb 11, 2015 13:05:14 GMT -5
800k is pretty solid. Better than a lot of records, better than Muse's 2nd Law, for example. Better than Kasabian, Foo Fighters, Suck it and see etc. It was the 2nd biggest selling rock album of the 2011 in Uk indeed Maybe it will become a 3xplatinum after the CY era. Good job Noel How many solo artists after leaving a big band did have a great start like Noel? Few. Yes is an amazing feat an artist getting 1/2 those sales are doing great, but like you say it should go 3 x platinum at some point in its lifetime which not a lot of albums will do. |
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Post by leak4ever on Feb 11, 2015 13:10:38 GMT -5
800k is pretty solid. Better than a lot of records, better than Muse's 2nd Law, for example. Better than Kasabian, Foo Fighters, Suck it and see etc. It was the 2nd biggest selling rock album of the 2011 in Uk indeed Maybe it will become a 3xplatinum after the CY era. Good job Noel How many solo artists after leaving a big band did have a great start like Noel? Few. Yes is an amazing feat an artist getting 1/2 those sales are doing great, but like you say it should go 3 x platinum at some point in its lifetime which not a lot of albums will do. True, but it was his first album after Oasis so a lot of those sales were probably a result of hype. This album will be the real test of Noel's commercial viability. |
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peggysshadow
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Post by peggysshadow on Feb 11, 2015 13:18:22 GMT -5
Sorry The Doctor ..
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Post by jaq515 on Feb 11, 2015 13:23:03 GMT -5
Yes is an amazing feat an artist getting 1/2 those sales are doing great, but like you say it should go 3 x platinum at some point in its lifetime which not a lot of albums will do. True, but it was his first album after Oasis so a lot of those sales were probably a result of hype. This album will be the real test of Noel's commercial viability. This isn't a negative comment, in my opinion HFB birds was such a MOR/commercial album, the masses will buy this album on the strength of it. (I do believe this album will cross over and excite more Gallagher fans, even some 'music' fans too) On the flip side of commerciality noel said as long as the album pays for studio time etc its just an advert for the tour (which is where he makes the money anyway so he's golden at the mo) He's not got some record company CEO to worry about, well except Marcus Russell worrying about his cut  |
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Post by leak4ever on Feb 11, 2015 13:39:57 GMT -5
True, but it was his first album after Oasis so a lot of those sales were probably a result of hype. This album will be the real test of Noel's commercial viability. This isn't a negative comment, in my opinion HFB birds was such a MOR/commercial album, the masses will buy this album on the strength of it. (I do believe this album will cross over and excite more Gallagher fans, even some 'music' fans too) On the flip side of commerciality noel said as long as the album pays for studio time etc its just an advert for the tour (which is where he makes the money anyway so he's golden at the mo) He's not got some record company CEO to worry about, well except Marcus Russell worrying about his cut How great must it be to be in Noel's position? Writes music when he wants, releases it when it wants, tours when he wants. And makes a shit load of money doing it. Most musicians would kill to have those luxuries. And even if he doesn't do any of it, he still has enough money to live like a king. |
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Post by jaq515 on Feb 11, 2015 14:04:31 GMT -5
This isn't a negative comment, in my opinion HFB birds was such a MOR/commercial album, the masses will buy this album on the strength of it. (I do believe this album will cross over and excite more Gallagher fans, even some 'music' fans too) On the flip side of commerciality noel said as long as the album pays for studio time etc its just an advert for the tour (which is where he makes the money anyway so he's golden at the mo) He's not got some record company CEO to worry about, well except Marcus Russell worrying about his cut How great must it be to be in Noel's position? Writes music when he wants, releases it when it wants, tours when he wants. And makes a shit load of money doing it. Most musicians would kill to have those luxuries. And even if he doesn't do any of it, he still has enough money to live like a king. exactly but he deserves it oasis owned the 90's, and those songs will be apart of UK culture / psyche forever now. You go to gigs and theres 12-50 year olds there, hard core fans and the new casual fans too. I think cos he's 'him', so funny, makes good copy etc he's made himself more relevant than probably any artist before him. Even when the music fades (in the relevance of the charts etc not quality) he's still interesting enough that the media love him and feature him which raises his profile etc. Theres not very many 'artists' you hear on the radio which make you want to buy their music cos of their personality (/ media persona ) |
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Post by lamboasis on Feb 11, 2015 14:35:33 GMT -5
True, but it was his first album after Oasis so a lot of those sales were probably a result of hype. This album will be the real test of Noel's commercial viability. This isn't a negative comment, in my opinion HFB birds was such a MOR/commercial album, the masses will buy this album on the strength of it. (I do believe this album will cross over and excite more Gallagher fans, even some 'music' fans too) On the flip side of commerciality noel said as long as the album pays for studio time etc its just an advert for the tour (which is where he makes the money anyway so he's golden at the mo) He's not got some record company CEO to worry about, well except Marcus Russell worrying about his cut Well, album sales are pretty important... 300k copies x £10 = £3m gross revenue 800k copies x £10 = £8m gross revenue The difference is pretty big |
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Post by jaq515 on Feb 11, 2015 14:47:54 GMT -5
This isn't a negative comment, in my opinion HFB birds was such a MOR/commercial album, the masses will buy this album on the strength of it. (I do believe this album will cross over and excite more Gallagher fans, even some 'music' fans too) On the flip side of commerciality noel said as long as the album pays for studio time etc its just an advert for the tour (which is where he makes the money anyway so he's golden at the mo) He's not got some record company CEO to worry about, well except Marcus Russell worrying about his cut Well, album sales are pretty important... 300k copies x £10 = £3m gross revenue 800k copies x £10 = £8m gross revenue The difference is pretty big Those sort of figures mean nothing really. Profit is in touring (which is apparent that a 'festival' date is cheaper to buy tickets for than seeing noel on his own tour) My dad is not a massive gallagher fan at all but he watched Noel's radio 2 gig on BBC iplayer and said he enjoyed it. I went to a supermarket to buy his birthday card (less than 6 months after HFB was released) and they were selling HFB for £4.99 so got it as an extra little present) so less than 6 months in they were selling HFB of cheap not cos it wasn't selling. By year end off 2011 it paid for it self so selling the rest off cheap to grow potential fan base even if you pirated it for 4.99 might as well buy it. Same sort of thing at xmas when itunes was doing time flies for £5 not much profit for £5 but some of those people might buy other oasis album, go see noel on tour, grows oasis heritage etc etc etc . |
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Post by muckyfingers on Feb 14, 2015 12:29:11 GMT -5
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Post by lamboasis on Feb 14, 2015 14:10:41 GMT -5
Q said the same. Don't know if it's true. But anyway it was a great era, 2nd best selling rock album in the UK in 2011. He outsold Muse, Foo Fighters, AM's Suck It and See, Kasabian etc. Only Coldplay did better than him. Enough said.
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Feb 14, 2015 17:57:01 GMT -5
Where did they get the 2.5 million from?
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Post by jaq515 on Feb 14, 2015 18:04:31 GMT -5
they obv aren't correct figures we can account for 800,000 in the UK and 60,000 in the U.S the outside of Japan and Italy sales wouldn't be massive but no way ever does it amount to well over 1.5 million copies
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Post by lamboasis on Feb 14, 2015 18:06:15 GMT -5
Probably around 2M with the singles.
But anyway it was a great era, 2nd best selling rock album in the UK in 2011. He outsold Muse, Foo Fighters, AM's Suck It and See, Kasabian etc. Only Coldplay did better than him. Enough said.
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