140 million

[dougl]

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.

[FuzzyPlum]

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.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

- 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..

100% True. Fleetwood Mac wasn't so popular in Peru, and I would say all South America. Maybe my generation people know FM (at least those who listen rock/pop music). But ABBA, Police, Queen and Rolling Stones are far more popular, even within my generation. And of course also in older or younger people.

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by Villavic

100% True. Fleetwood Mac wasn't so popular in Peru, and I would say all South America. Maybe my generation people know FM (at least those who listen rock/pop music). But ABBA, Police, Queen and Rolling Stones are far more popular, even within my generation. And of course also in older or younger people.

ABBA are my other all time favorite band from my youth. I saw them live for the first and only time in late 1979 weeks before I saw Fleetwood Mac for the first time. What a way to end the 1970s.

[jbrownsjr]

I love how much early stuff outsold SYW. That album still bugs me.

[John Run]

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

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I love how much early stuff outsold SYW. That album still bugs me.

Also interesting that BTM sold over a million more that SYW.

[elle]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

I love how much early stuff outsold SYW. That album still bugs me.

see this statement exactly proves my previous post - Christine fan cannot stand SYW.

re sales comparisons between early stuff and after-2000 stuff - SYW came after napster. a completely different era of music sales. those numbers cannot be compared as apples to apples to numbers before napster.