140 million
I’ve often wondered how it was calculated that Fleetwood Mac has sold over 140 million albums. Here is a link that seems to answer that question.
https://chartmasters.org/2017/10/bes...f-all-time/18/ FM is #25 on the list at 148 million plus. If you click on Fleetwood Mac the link takes you to a 32 page rundown of sales, streams,downloads, etc for all of their albums. Pretty exhaustive analysis with interesting conclusions if you’re into statistics. |
Wow...this is a really interesting site. Thanks for this.
Interesting- in the comments section on the Fleetwood Mac pages there's discussion about how Fleetwood Mac aren't as well known around the world as The Police or ABBA. I hadn't considered that, but now that makes total sense. Some really interesting sales figure for the older albums. |
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I love how much early stuff outsold SYW. That album still bugs me.
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Incredibly detailed 32 pages of work that brings into focus sales data for albums and singles and goes deep into streaming and download data using sophisticated analytics. This data only runs through mid 2016, so 4.5 years later has surely added to the numbers.
I posted a brief summary of worldwide album sales below. All data courtesy of Chartmasters.org 1968 Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac – 1,600,000 1968 Mr. Wonderful – 1,100,000 1969 Then Play On – 2,000,000 1970 Kiln House – 800,000 1971 Future Games – 800,000 1972 Bare Trees – 1,850,000 1973 Penguin – 700,000 1973 Mystery To Me – 1,600,000 1974 Heroes Are Hard To Find – 1,300,000 1975 Fleetwood Mac – 9,400,000 1977 Rumours – 35,500,000 1979 Tusk – 6,600,000 1982 Mirage – 5,500,000 1987 Tango In The Night – 11,300,000 1990 Behind The Mask – 2,750,000 1995 Time – 150,000 2003 Say You Will – 1,600,000 Live-2,200,000 The Dance - 7,400,000 Greatest Hits - 19,300,000 25 Years The Chain - 650,000 The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac- 6,100,000 |
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Also noticed that the five Bob Welch era albums sold more than the original era albums by 750K, making his exclusion all the more criminal.
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For every bit of freshness Lindsey delivers on BuckVie, SYW sounds labored and clunky. And that's for sure not all his fault. I saw him try to place the direction of it, and they all were over it. |
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BuckVie is the antithesis of SYW. Thank god. |
Comparing Behind the Mask sales to Say You Will sales without context is an incongruent argument. Behind the Mask represented a 77% drop in sales from the prior original release by the band just 3 years earlier. Thirteen years later, in a reshaped record buying market, Say You Will was a 40% drop from Behind the Mask, but a 1100% increase in sales from their last full work of original material, Time, which was released 8 years prior. Of course in the interim, they had the massive selling live compilation, The Dance.
The debate on the listening enjoyment one has from Say You Will is a worthy one. While ambitious, it is long, laborious, and sonically compressed to my ears. That's does not mean their are not some nice moments on the album. The perfect lock of the Fleetwood drums and McVie bass arranged in a distinctly Buckingham way on Miranda. Thrown Down, Steal Your Heart Away and Bleed to Love Her are all well crafted songs. A matter of fact, the album version of Bleed To Lover Her is by far the most streamed track from Say You Will. But yes, in my opinion Say You Will is a tough listen as an entire body of work. There are other interesting tales of tape in the numbers. Tusk outsold Mirage, despite the perception that Mirage was a return to commercial form. Tusk being the eagerly awaited follow up to Rumours, for sure helped its sales though. The massive sales of Tango in the Night can't be undersold. Buckingham's producer royalties on that one, which I am sure were weighted heavily towards him and not 50 / 50 with Dashut, must have sustained him long into the 90s, when combined with his artist and songwriting royalties. Greatest Hits and The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac have much greater sales volume than I suspected. As noted above, the Welch era was far more successful than perceived, but all of those albums combined don't come to equal the sales of the White Album, so it is easy to see why some members of the band so easily discarded the era. Lots of interesting data and always a joy to find something new in what I thought I knew. |
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It took me another 5 years to really get into it. But I like that, it wasn’t an instant thing, it grew and grew on me.. I play it a lot really loud, especially in the car. |
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About half of it would make for a cohesive Fleetwood Mac album. I can’t imagine the point of it being longer, the double album thing. |
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