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Are there any Proper Album sale figures at all????

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Th_Th said on February 26, 2003 12:58:

Hi there,
this one thing is confusing me a lot, and that is, how many Albums has Roxette sold so far?? For years and years, I have been reading, that Roxette has sold 40 Million Albums. I have been hearing that since Crash Boom Bang times.
But since then, they released the first Greatest Hit which sold about 5 Million. They also released Balladas, another 1 Million. After that came HAND, another 3 Million and Room Service which almost 2 Million sales. Now TBH have sold more than 1 Million copies already, we still hear, that Roxette has sold only 40 Million Albums, how is that possible?? Sure it must be way more than 50 Million?? And with all their singles, haven’t they almost sold 70 Million records alltogether???
I remember a German Radio Station saying in 1995, that Roxette has sold more than 60 Million CD’s during their career so far...
can someone please tell us, what the proper sell figures are???

coyboyusa said on February 26, 2003 15:20:

the last official tallies I saw came from a 2000 sales ranking industry booklet from emi shareholders

pop: including the re-release has sold appoximately 1 million copies
ls: 8.5 million
joyride...11.75 million
cbb: inlcudes the pomo mc d sales 5.2 million
rareties: is not included in this booklet
hand: 4.9 million
eu hits: 6.3 million
us hits: including import sales 925,000 opproximate
rs: 2.3 million copies

i don’t know the figues for singles which undoubtedly bolsters these figures alot consifdering both imbl and ltyh and jyider have come close to or surpassed the 1 million mark

clerk said on February 26, 2003 15:47:

And what about Tourism..?

Roxette-atic said on February 26, 2003 16:01:

HAND 4.9 million?
RS 2.3 million ?

Sounds too much...
are u sure about this?

coyboyusa said on February 26, 2003 16:14:

ack tourism was around 4.8 ....

the firues are up and through 2002

the hand figues are correct as are rs

arnie said on February 26, 2003 18:35:

Are you including the re-release of HAND with the 3 spanish tracks?

bunny said on February 26, 2003 20:45:

What about the greatest hits CD released only in Japan called “Greatest”? :-P

Sascha said on February 26, 2003 21:54:

How can RS be included in a ranking from 2000? If these numbers are correct, Roxette’s albums keep selling over the years!

Roxwriter said on February 26, 2003 21:57:

Excuse me but that HAND sales figure is a crock of shit! No way did HAND sell that much!

It barely scraped past the 2 million mark.

cskendras said on February 26, 2003 22:45:

rs sold about 1,5 mio copies world-wide and hand about 2,5 mio as far as i can remember to have read it some weeks ago somewhere

Markuz said on February 27, 2003 00:41:

LOL coyboy, I just LOVE your made up stories!!!

Ferdan said on February 27, 2003 06:38:

yep, he steped on himself with RS in a yr 2000 sale figure. Smart ... *sigh*

bunny said on February 27, 2003 08:00:

here’s my humble theory.
at the time of their appearance at the World Music Awards in 2000, the host announced that they have sold over 40 mil records. So let’s assume that they sold 1 mil more of HAND, 2 mil of RS and 1 mil of TBH, the figure may be close to 45 mil now?

Th_Th said on February 27, 2003 08:39:

So, still no one knows...
I have heard though, that HAND sold 3.5 Million and Room Service way more than 2 Million.

coyboyusa said on February 27, 2003 13:23:

my typos are killing me its 2002

hand was 3.5 million which i believe is also supoorted by the discography book and the japanese hits wasn’t considered a special release..well at least not by emi

daniel_alv said on February 27, 2003 15:07:

PLEASE EMI, give us the real numbers

animalkingdom said on February 27, 2003 15:42:

Whatever figures EMI may give are for the units which have been ordered from the company - not necessarily sold. Also in my opinion those numbers seem quite too big...

@ Markuz

Have you seen Annie Lennox lately? She looks rather bad! *Laughing out loudly*

NigelBarnes said on February 27, 2003 18:01:

Below figures were reported in Goteborgs-Posten November 2001.

Pearls of Passion 0.8m
Look Sharp 9m
Joyride 11m
Tourism 6m
CBB 5m
Rarities 1m
DBUGTTC 6m
Balades inEspanol 1m
HAND 2.2m
RS 1m (and rising)

Who knows what’s right!

Markuz said on February 27, 2003 18:43:

@animalkingdom: Have you seen Marie Fredriksson lately? She looks rather bad! *Laughing out loudly*

##HEAVY SARCASM USED IN THIS POST##

They’re both SICK you moron, you shouldn’t laugh about that!!

roxtexanet said on February 27, 2003 18:54:

@Markuz: What’s wrong with her? I’m sorry to hear that she’s ill if it’s true. I’m looking forward to her new album, I’ve always liked her solo stuff a thousand times better than the Eurythmics’ work.

Markuz said on February 27, 2003 19:05:

@roxtexanet: she is very very thin and looks quite sick, to the point that many newspapers published articles like “Annie Thinnox: A broken diva?”. There were also news reports on TV. Nobody knows what is happening to her, and her management didn’t want to comment on that for the time being.

Santi said on February 27, 2003 19:12:

Again with sales. I only hope that you all know this numbers are never real, but extrapolated from the actual sales of a few stores...

animalkingdom said on February 27, 2003 21:34:

@ Markuz

How do you actually know if she is sick? If there were no reports whatsoever...Anyhow, I ain’t laughing any longer. Sorry :-)

By the way, what if she’s just going on a diet? Some elder ppl like going on a diet without really thinking about the consequences...That’d be positive, wouldn’t it?

animalkingdom said on February 27, 2003 21:35:

@ Markuz

Whoopsie, forgot: Marie’s not looking bad anymore. Didn’t you see the pics from the King’s ceremony? By the way, I don’t think any of us saw her looking bad...There were no photos taken of her at those times.

alchemiste said on February 27, 2003 21:39:

In 1995, they said “40 million records” I think, and I guess that included the singles sales. Today they are talking about 40 million albums.

arnie said on February 27, 2003 21:46:

They’ve been talking about 40 million copies since CBB times!! Who knows the real figures?

roxtexanet said on February 27, 2003 22:02:

@Markuz: That sucks... I hope it’s all just tabloid trash, but the fact that her management won’t comment is a little scary. It looks like all of her plans for the new album are still on the go, so that’s a good sign, right?

coyboyusa said on February 27, 2003 23:27:

what’s annie lennox sixk from? i haven’t heard anything!

DaminehGessle said on February 28, 2003 00:08:

Just cause we are in North America. North America sucks when it comes to music. AH!

RFMFG said on February 28, 2003 11:46:

In 1995 Roxette get an award from EMI because of selling 30 million albums worldwide. In the movie THE REALLY ROXETTE you can see this.

so:
30.000.000 albums
+ 6.000.000 Dbu-gttc
+ 1.000.000 Baladas en Espanol
+ 3.500.000 Hand
+ 2.000.000 RS
+ 1.000.000 TBH (till now)
———————-
= 43.500.000 albums

RFMFG said on February 28, 2003 11:52:

In 1995 Roxette get an award from EMI because of selling 30 million albums worldwide. In the movie THE REALLY ROXETTE you can see this.

so:
30.000.000 albums
+ 6.000.000 Dbu-gttc
+ 3.500.000 Hand
+ 2.000.000 RS
+ 1.000.000 TBH (till now)
———————-
= 42.500.000 albums

Ferdan said on February 28, 2003 20:07:

There were more albums released, and Joyride and LS kept selling after every new release.

arnie said on March 1, 2003 00:27:

End of story: Roxette has sold more than 43 million copies...