Rumours officially 20xplatinum from RIAA!

[Bandon]

This means their still running head-to-head with Miss ShawniaTwang...ugh.

[aleuzzi]

Help me out with the numbers. 20x platinum means 40million copies, right?

[kak125]

It means 20 million copies.

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by Bandon

This means their still running head-to-head with Miss ShawniaTwang...ugh.

I love Shania and her music .I did not know she sold that many albums.

Does anybody have the link on this info.

Thanks in advance.

[bethelblues]

How many albums has FM sold all together? Wikipedia has 100M, but on tv they say 75M.

[tabruns]

US sales *certifications alone* (not actual sales, which are higher):

Fleetwood Mac (white album) - 5 million
Rumours - 20 million
Tusk - 2 million
Mirage - 2 million
Live - 500,000
Tango In The Night - 3 million
Greatest Hits - 8 million
Behind The Mask - 500,000
The Dance - 5 million
Say You Will - 500,000
Live In Boston - 100,000 (platinum for video longform)
Very Best of Fleetwood Mac - 1 million

So roughly 48 million alone in just United States certification sales. But we know actual sales are higher...I think Soundscan had "Say You Will" at 900,000, for example.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by tabruns

US sales *certifications alone* (not actual sales, which are higher):

Fleetwood Mac (white album) - 5 million
Rumours - 20 million
Tusk - 2 million
Mirage - 2 million
Live - 500,000
Tango In The Night - 3 million
Greatest Hits - 8 million
Behind The Mask - 500,000
The Dance - 5 million
Say You Will - 500,000
Live In Boston - 100,000 (platinum for video longform)
Very Best of Fleetwood Mac - 1 million

So roughly 48 million alone in just United States certification sales. But we know actual sales are higher...I think Soundscan had "Say You Will" at 900,000, for example.

Thanks. This is helpful. I also just read that worldwide Rumours has sold about 40 million.

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by tabruns

US sales *certifications alone* (not actual sales, which are higher):

Fleetwood Mac (white album) - 5 million
Rumours - 20 million
Tusk - 2 million
Mirage - 2 million
Live - 500,000
Tango In The Night - 3 million
Greatest Hits - 8 million
Behind The Mask - 500,000
The Dance - 5 million
Say You Will - 500,000
Live In Boston - 100,000 (platinum for video longform)
Very Best of Fleetwood Mac - 1 million

So roughly 48 million alone in just United States certification sales. But we know actual sales are higher...I think Soundscan had "Say You Will" at 900,000, for example.

They aren't necessarily higher. I'm sure it's a case by case basis. Rumours was just certified 20 times platinum. Because that certification is up to date it's likely higher than the amount sold. After all, these are certifications for shipments, not sales.

Example, I was looking at a few of those other top albums. Double Live by Gartha Brooks is 21X platinum. It counts twice because it is a double album so that's really 10.5 million shipped. The actual Nielsen soundscan number is about 6 million.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Richard B

Good for them. Now I hope everyone understands why Rumours will always be blitzed out on tours, remasters/rehashings and recycled articles.

Yes. We do. Because, "this isn't about art" - Stevie


#cashgrabforinfinity

[jwd]

Originally Posted by tabruns

US sales *certifications alone* (not actual sales, which are higher):

Fleetwood Mac (white album) - 5 million
Rumours - 20 million
Tusk - 2 million
Mirage - 2 million
Live - 500,000
Tango In The Night - 3 million
Greatest Hits - 8 million
Behind The Mask - 500,000
The Dance - 5 million
Say You Will - 500,000
Live In Boston - 100,000 (platinum for video longform)
Very Best of Fleetwood Mac - 1 million

So roughly 48 million alone in just United States certification sales. But we know actual sales are higher...I think Soundscan had "Say You Will" at 900,000, for example.

Any certifications for Mac's early records? Maybe I'm thinking they were just charting on Billboard when the Stevie/Lindsey incarnation was taking off.

Did Bob Welch's album French Kiss go gold or platinum?

[michelej1]

Yahoo Australia 10/24/14

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/25339896...n-sales-in-us/

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album has now sold over 20 million copies in the US.

Rumours, which was released in 1977, has been given its twentieth platinum certificate, indicating sales of over twenty million units.

That moves the record into a tie for eighth place with Shania Twain on the list of the biggest selling albums of all-time in the US.

Rumours was the 11th studio album by the rock band and produced hits songs such as Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Don't Stop and You Make Loving Fun.

It won the Grammy for Best Album in 1978.

[StevieNicksfann]

Originally Posted by tabruns

US sales *certifications alone* (not actual sales, which are higher):

Fleetwood Mac (white album) - 5 million
Rumours - 20 million
Tusk - 2 million
Mirage - 2 million
Live - 500,000
Tango In The Night - 3 million
Greatest Hits - 8 million
Behind The Mask - 500,000
The Dance - 5 million
Say You Will - 500,000
Live In Boston - 100,000 (platinum for video longform)
Very Best of Fleetwood Mac - 1 million

So roughly 48 million alone in just United States certification sales. But we know actual sales are higher...I think Soundscan had "Say You Will" at 900,000, for example.

Can someone verify Tango In The Night? I was a DJ back then and followed charts pretty faithfully and I could have sworn Tango was more like &x platinum. It was touted as the best selling album they had after Rumours (sales-wise not time-wise). Also, I believe Tusk sold 4 million copies but maybe that's really 2 million counted twice for the double album. All the others seem right based on my memory which could very well be off.

[tabruns]

Originally Posted by MikeVielhaber

They aren't necessarily higher. I'm sure it's a case by case basis. Rumours was just certified 20 times platinum. Because that certification is up to date it's likely higher than the amount sold. After all, these are certifications for shipments, not sales.

Example, I was looking at a few of those other top albums. Double Live by Gartha Brooks is 21X platinum. It counts twice because it is a double album so that's really 10.5 million shipped. The actual Nielsen soundscan number is about 6 million.

True, sometimes it is the case that album sales are actually lower, because a record company has an album certified based on shipments. So Stevie's Street Angel has been certified Gold although it hasn't yet actually passed 500,000 in sales.

Most of the time however certification lags behind sales, so normally certifications do indicate the bare minimum of what a record sold. Say You Will, for example, is definitely closer to 1,000,000 in sales than 500,000....but if you went by certification alone, you'd think 500,000 because it's only been certified Gold.

[tabruns]

Originally Posted by StevieNicksfann

Can someone verify Tango In The Night? I was a DJ back then and followed charts pretty faithfully and I could have sworn Tango was more like &x platinum. It was touted as the best selling album they had after Rumours (sales-wise not time-wise). Also, I believe Tusk sold 4 million copies but maybe that's really 2 million counted twice for the double album. All the others seem right based on my memory which could very well be off.

I've seen Tango In The Night mentioned as having sold 8 million copies worldwide. Lindsey and Mick have both said that Tango is their second highest selling album, after Rumours.

Lindsey has various referred to Tusk as selling 6 or 8 million copies but who knows what he was basing that on - I assume worldwide sales. It's been certified double platinum, but it's although it's a double album I *think* it was certified PRIOR to double albums being counted twice certification-wise. If that's correct, then if it were re-certified now it would be 4 million, possibly more (US sales alone).

[tabruns]

All the certifications I listed btw came directly from RIAA's website.

But it only means that's what the album was *last* certified at. In some cases, its been a Lonnnnnnnnnng time since it was last certified.