1983 Best selling albums

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

You are picking apples and oranges. When I say Pat eclipsed Stevie I mean every year she won best female rock performance or American Music award. Yes Bella Donna was #1 and so was Precious Time yet Stevie played theaters while Pat was performing arenas. Pat had released 2 platinum albums on the charts in 1983. To be fair so did Stevie since Bella Donna was still charting.
Stevie has 0 solo Grammys and 0 solo American music awards. That is what I meant. Not saying she is not deserving.
Having said all of that, Stevie's fanbase is completely different. I saw Stevie solo concerts hit a low of 6,000 in attendance during Timespace and Street Angel. After The Dance she was back up to full speed packed arenas. Pat lost her fanbase. I remember in 1998 I saw Enchanted to a packed amphitheater. Pat Benatar was also coming to town but she was playing at a nightclub.

And BTW, I totally believe you what you read in Billboard. They probably added the sales of Wild Heart, Bella Donna, and Mirage, Rumours, etc for the year and came up with that statement.

And since you are keeping score at home, weren't we both incorrect about the Mirage tour in LA. I knew Glen Frey opened for the Mac in CA but it was not LA. I thought you stated it was someone else before we were both corrected. Mason only played one of the Forum nights. So aren't we both wrong and both partially right

Nope go back and read the thread..I never stated that anyone other than Dave opened up for Fleetwood Mac on the night of the Mirage tour at the Forum of which I attended .Precious Time and Bella Donna both hit number one but Bellla Donna has sold more than twice as much .There is no way that Fleetwood Mac's albums were included in the tally for the best selling female artist in Billboard's year end chart that is absurd and yeah I'm very aware of Pat winning all those awards that Stevie was up for . I was a huge fan in real time back then but we were primarily discussing album sales.