LB Sales
 

David mentioned a figure in another thread. What was the average sales for an LB solo album? I didn't think it was that low. Even Christine broke the 100,000 mark with her solo album. Of course she had 2 hits on the last one.
But didn't LB have Go Insane, and Slow Dancing as pretty solid hits for the GI album?

So my orig question is, what's his average sales per album?

I don't have concrete sales numbers, but none of his albums have been certified gold or platinum (which is based on the amount of albums shipped). So the best we can assume is that his albums shipped/sold under 500,000.

I think the number David quoted, came from a Billboard article in 1992... but I could be wrong.


Oddly enough, his biggest single ("Trouble") charted one notch higher (#9) than Christine's biggest solo single ("Got A Hold On Me"), and his second biggest single ("Go Insane") charted 7 notches higher (#23) than Christine's second single ("Love Will Show Us How"). So go figure. :shrug:

("Slow Dancing" didn't chart, and Lindsey's only other charted single is "Holiday Road," at #82. Which surprises me, because I would have expected that song, especially, to have done much better.)

I really hope that if he releases another album it will sell well.

Tynan

Ample reason to take chart placement numbers with a half-cup of salt.

Big Love may have placed higher on the U.S. charts than Go Your Own Way, but the latter easily displaces the former in terms of worldwide recognizability & belovedness, resonance & importance within the Fleetwood Mac ethos, & general pop culture fallout.

Maybe they should get the BCS College Football poll people to start charting album sales. :laugh:

I seem to recall Lindsey saying once that OOTC sold about 300,000 copies in total. Can't remember where I read it though, it was a couple of years back..

I remember not being able to get away from "Got A Hold On Me"
It was everywhere, (no pun intended)

Trouble I remember but not as much. I used to hear Trouble in my dentist office all the time. They must have had a tape of adult music in there.

Uh, NO.

I remember several articles around the Dance where 40,000 units were talked about. That's much more accurate. I'd have to pull the Soundscan, but I don't think it's sold more than 50,000 copies.

That doesn't sound accurate to me. Sad, though, cause that is his best album. OOTC didn't even break the top 100 in the U.S., so it's hard to believe that it sold 300,000.

The truly sad thing about that low number is that more people haven't had the pleasure of experiencing it!

I thought it was something like 160,000, but I don't have any idea where I read that.

I'm talking total sales worldwide since 1992 until about 2001 if I recall the article.. but even 300,000 in nearly 10 years sounds a lot! :laugh: (I also recall him jokingly saying something about the amount of unsold albums sat in his garage)...

Yeah, I might agree on that. After all, the album did reach #28 on the Swedish charts. ;)

Who knows what the true sales are anyway? Street Angel has sold 233,000 copies in USA so far (and as we know, numbers outside the US don't add much sales for Stevie), and the sales of that were possibly significantly boosted by The Dance. I'm guessing Out Of The Cradle is close to those numbers.

never knew that about street angel

LOL on the swedish charts!!!!!

Now, are we talking 'albums sold' or albums shipped? In that respect, SA went gold--probably recouped the album costs since she went on tour but considering...maybe not.

Even if Lindsey's new album is the best thing since sliced bread, it's hard to imagine that it will do as well as say...we would like it to do. If SYW hasn't even shipped 1 million copies, can you even imagine Lindsey's album? Honestly, we'll be lucky to get it. It's hard to find a Lindsey album in stores period, new or not. Luckily, he seems to be more music-focused than sales, but he'll be eating a lot of money either way.

Sad thing, because he's just so awesome.