Prince - total world wide album sales

[mailboxpimp]

total world wide album sales.

Diamond Album (1)

Purple Rain

Platinum Albums: (18)

Prince

Dirty Mind

Controversy

1999

Around The World In A Day

Parade

Sign "O" The Times

Lovesexy

Batman

Graffiti Bridge

Diamonds & Pearls

Love Symbol

The Hits 1,2/The B-Sides

Come

Emancipation

The Very Best of Prince

Musicology

3121

Gold Albums: (6)

For You

The Black Album

The Gold Experience

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

Ultimate Prince

Lotus Flow3r

Uncertified: (9)

Chaos & Disorder

Crystal Ball

New Power Soul

The Vault

The Rainbow Children

One Night Alone Live

N.E.W.S.

Planet Earth

20Ten

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1978 For You: 950,000

1979 Prince: 2,000,000

1980 Dirty Mind: 2,035,000 it should have been higher
1981 Controversy: 2,680,000

1982 1999: 6,400,000

that's my boy

the beginning of the golden age
1984 Purple Rain: 21,000,000 (Highest selling Prince album) HISTORY

1985 Around The World In A Day: 4,600,000 amazing considering the low promo
1986 Parade: 4,210,000 I guess Kiss is the one to "blame" here

1987 Sign Of The Times: 4,225,000 not bad at all, considering that it hadn't many hits
1988 Lovesexy: 2,895,000 still high nonetheless
1989 Batman: 7,000,000 thanks to the movie



1990 Graffiti Bridge: 2,500,000

and some people still call this whole project a failure...
1991 Diamonds & Pearls: 6,750,000

Prince still had it
1992 Symbol: 4,800,000

well done NPG!
1993 The Hits 1,2/The B-Sides: 5,200,000

1994 Come: 1,300,000 not bad at all
1994 The Black Album: 590,000 not surprising
1995 The Gold Experience: 920,000

that album could and should have been a mega-hit

1996 Chaos & Disorder: 360,000 the beginning of the end, people already tired of his antics and viewing him as the villian of the story (not just Warners)


1996 Emancipation: 1,250,000 (Certified 2x Platinum by RIAA for 3 disc set)

had it been a single album, the sales would have been 600.000 aprox...
1998 Crystal Ball: 277,000 ugh
1998 Newpower Soul: 435,000

1999 The Vault: 265,000

1999 Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic: 765,000 not bad for a total failure of a project, disappointing that it didn't reach the million, but THE END nonetheless

2001 The Very Best Of Prince: 2,300,000

2001 The Rainbow Children: 320,000 pfff

2002 One Night Alone Live: N/A

2003 N.E.W.S.: 40,000 (Lowest selling Prince album)

2004 Musicology: 2,500,000

didn't know that
2006 3121: 1,000,000 kind of low...

2006 Ultimate Prince: 500,000 only that?

2007 Planet Earth: 300,000 (U.S. Sales only) bad promotion/distribution

2009 LotusFlow3r: 544,700 bad promotion/distribution

2010 20Ten: (N/A) AWFUL promotion/distribution

2014 Art Official Age: 51,003 (U.S. 1st week sales) bad promotion, lack of a real single with hit potential...and worst era of all time for the industry in term of sales

2014 Plectrum Electrum: 26,360 (U.S. 1st week sales) not surprising

 

[Darrkman]

Best thing about this list is that it gives me names of other albums to grab.

 

[Coldchi]

Just lets you know how much of a beast the music industry is.
You'd think with over 100 million albums sold, plus concerts and touring,... you should be a billionaire.
Artists aint gettin much per unit sold. Im sure if he owned his publishing and masters from the very beginning,
he would have been a billionaire.

 

[geechiedan]

Just lets you know how much of a beast the music industry is.
You'd think with over 100 million albums sold, plus concerts and touring,... you should be a billionaire.
Artists aint gettin much per unit sold. Im sure if he owned his publishing and masters from the very beginning,
he would have been a billionaire.

not with the way dude spent money..especially early on..

 

[will_right]

Best thing about this list is that it gives me names of other albums to grab.