Buckingham Nicks Sales?

[Nixxxed]

How many copies has the Buckingham Nicks album sold, both in its first release and the reissue after they joined the Mac?

I looked through all those Mac album sales threads (and the solo album tallies), but that album is never listed on those messages people get back from the Billboard guy...

I know it was pre-SoundScan, but if there isn't a sales figure, do we even know how many copies were pressed both times around? Surely all those copies have sold by now.

Just a question that popped into my head over the weekend. Dunno why.

[JamieSPC]

I've often wondered this myself. I live in Birmingham, where the record was a huge hit, and I remember as a kid being kinda mystified when people talked about this being a rarity. I used to see it everywhere.

Still, it's pretty easy to find in used record stores in the Birmingham/Atlanta areas. eBay has made it fairly ubiquitous, too.

~Jamie

[Nixxxed]

Originally Posted by JamieSPC

I've often wondered this myself. I live in Birmingham, where the record was a huge hit, and I remember as a kid being kinda mystified when people talked about this being a rarity. I used to see it everywhere.

Still, it's pretty easy to find in used record stores in the Birmingham/Atlanta areas. eBay has made it fairly ubiquitous, too.

~Jamie

I still see it everywhere -- every used/collectible record shop I enter, it's always there!

Aw cummon - no one knows the answer to this, or even has a guess? Has someone finally stumped all of you?

[amber]

But how would they track that? I got my CD in a store, but it was (I later realized) just a burned copy with a sticker slapped on, and reproduced cover...I mean, it hasn't really been released, hardly, right?

[mylittledemon]

Well it's logical to assume that it sold out. However many copies were initially printed have all since been sold. I don't think it ever went gold, however.

[Nixxxed]

Originally Posted by amber

But how would they track that? I got my CD in a store, but it was (I later realized) just a burned copy with a sticker slapped on, and reproduced cover...I mean, it hasn't really been released, hardly, right?

I'm not really sure how they tracked it in the '70s, when it was officially released. It obviously didn't sell in its first pressing with Polydor, else they wouldn't have been dropped. But I imagine it sold decently when they reissued it once S&L joined FM.

Given their popularity at the time, I can't imagine Warner re-releasing the album without pressing a few hundred thousand copies. And I'm guessing the first pressing numbered in the thousands.

The figures have to be somewhere. It's the music BUSINESS after all.

[amber]

Originally Posted by Nixxxed

I'm not really sure how they tracked it in the '70s, when it was officially released. It obviously didn't sell in its first pressing with Polydor, else they wouldn't have been dropped. But I imagine it sold decently when they reissued it once S&L joined FM.

Given their popularity at the time, I can't imagine Warner re-releasing the album without pressing a few hundred thousand copies. And I'm guessing the first pressing numbered in the thousands.

The figures have to be somewhere. It's the music BUSINESS after all.

In my usual way, i didn't know it had been released again. which year?