Up to date sales numbers for FM albums – anyone know?

[greendaze5]

Anyone know exactly what the current amounts sold for each are? From the 1975 album up to ‘Say You Will’ that is.

[jcalzaretta]

No - last I saw with last year of certification in parenthesis

FM - white album - 5M (1986)
Rumours - stuck at 19M (2003)
Tusk - 2M (1984) - but double album so equivalent of 4M
Greatest Hits - 8M (2000)
SYW - never hit platinum - maybe just short of 900,000 (2003)
TITN - 3M (2000)
Mirage 2M (1984)
VBofFM - 1M (2003)
Live - 500K (1981)
Live in Boston - 1M (2004)
The Dance -5M (2000) - video - 1M (1998)

[StreetAngel95]

Originally Posted by jcalzaretta

No - last I saw with last year of certification in parenthesis

FM - white album - 5M (1986)
Rumours - stuck at 19M (2003)
Tusk - 2M (1984) - but double album so equivalent of 4M
Greatest Hits - 8M (2000)
SYW - never hit platinum - maybe just short of 900,000 (2003)
TITN - 3M (2000)
Mirage 2M (1984)
VBofFM - 1M (2003)
Live - 500K (1981)
Live in Boston - 1M (2004)
The Dance -5M (2000) - video - 1M (1998)

aww.....my favorite album didn't even hit 1M...

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by jcalzaretta

No - last I saw with last year of certification in parenthesis

FM - white album - 5M (1986)
Rumours - stuck at 19M (2003)
Tusk - 2M (1984) - but double album so equivalent of 4M
Greatest Hits - 8M (2000)
SYW - never hit platinum - maybe just short of 900,000 (2003)
TITN - 3M (2000)
Mirage 2M (1984)
VBofFM - 1M (2003)
Live - 500K (1981)
Live in Boston - 1M (2004)
The Dance -5M (2000) - video - 1M (1998)

This doesn't sound right to me. Yes, the LIB DVD went platinum, but a DVD has to sell only 20,000 (??) copies to go platinum. I suspect LIB sold well under 100K...

[jaycee]

Beyond remembering that Rumours has sold in excess of 40 million copies so far (about 30 million before the 2004 remaster), I have no idea... I get the feeling that that may have been a worldwide figure, however... I can't remember my source! Shameful for a scientist like myself!

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

This doesn't sound right to me. Yes, the LIB DVD went platinum, but a DVD has to sell only 20,000 (??) copies to go platinum. I suspect LIB sold well under 100K...

It's actually 50,000 for Gold and 100,000 for Platinum for long form video...

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by jaycee

Beyond remembering that Rumours has sold in excess of 40 million copies so far (about 30 million before the 2004 remaster), I have no idea... I get the feeling that that may have been a worldwide figure, however... I can't remember my source! Shameful for a scientist like myself!

I'm pretty sure Rumours has not sold 10 million copies world wide since 2004.

[Fiver]

Wikipedia says:

By 1980, 13 million copies of Rumours had been sold worldwide, a figure which increased to nearly 20 million by 1987. In 1995, the record was certified 2X diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association after shipping two million units. By the time of Fleetwood Mac's reunion tour in 1997, it had sold 25 million copies worldwide.The amount rose to 30 million by 2004, and to 40 million by 2009. As of 2010, Rumours is the 14th best-selling album in UK history and is certified 10X platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, the equivalent of three million units shipped.The record has received a Diamond Award by the Recording Industry Association of America for a 19X platinum certification or 19 million units shipped.As of 2010, it is the 10th best-selling album in US history.


But that's just wikipedia, so I dunno.. looks like it cites a Daily Mail article for the sales figures from 2004 to 2010.

[aleuzzi]

Those figures are probably just for the US. For instance, Tango has outsold the White Album by a few million--I think 8 million worldwide.

Rumours has sold worldwide an excess of 30 million.

[Nikolaj]

Many years ago, I'd read that 'Tango In The Night' had sold 8 MILLION worldwide and was their 2nd best seller, behind 'Rumours'...The album really sold throughout Europe, maybe the figures here are just for US. Also, askbillboard had the figures on LiveInBoston, and those figures were here on The Ledge. It indeed did sell way, way less than 100,000 copies. Maybe someone can do a search, because the sales figures for LiveInBoston were here on The Ledge, and they were official, and many of us kind of gasped. I believe the sales were less than 60,000 copies, which, at the time, compared to 'The Dance' was eye-opening.