Stevie Nicks Album Sales

[Josh2003]

Originally Posted by starshine

Whats interesting in reading this is that from what I see is that Street Angel has sold more than the Enchanted Box Set???? Am I seeing that correctly. Wow !! To me the box set was better than SA.

You also have to take into account the fact that a 3-CD boxed set cost roughly 2-3 times as much as a single CD. So really, only "serious" fans/buyers will be purchasing a boxed set, as opposed to the casual fans who might have picked up SA when it hit the shelves.

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by RockALittle250

I'm really shocked at TISL's numbers. It only sold 3,000 copies in 3 years!? I thought it would be in the 800,000's by now...

I was initially shocked, but on second thought, I NEVER see TISL in stores anywhere. I always check out Stevie's section and the only albums I ever find that aren't used are Sound Stage, Crystal Visions, and sometimes Bella Donna and TimeSpace.

[AliceLover]

I've posted this before...maybe 5 times or so over the past month. If you are wondering why people do not buy music anymore its because they don't have to. Smart phones and devices are taking over, making CD's nearly useless. We are in the worst economic time...why would people spend 10 bucks on TISL when they are foreclosing on their house? Why would they spend the $ on Itunes when all of Stevie's music is available on Limewire or youtube. Hell, there are dozens of websites that allow you to DL complete artist albums for free.

Its sad. It really is, but its not that people aren't interested in her music. They simply do not have to pay for it anymore.

[aprilsrain]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

I was initially shocked, but on second thought, I NEVER see TISL in stores anywhere. I always check out Stevie's section and the only albums I ever find that aren't used are Sound Stage, Crystal Visions, and sometimes Bella Donna and TimeSpace.

Wait...so you're telling me there's stores that people buy music at?

[RockALittle250]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

I was initially shocked, but on second thought, I NEVER see TISL in stores anywhere. I always check out Stevie's section and the only albums I ever find that aren't used are Sound Stage, Crystal Visions, and sometimes Bella Donna and TimeSpace.

Yea, come to think of it, you're right. The last time I saw TISL in any store was in 2005. Right now, Crystal Visions is the bulk of what I see any store carrying. Wonder if it will go gold by the end of this year.

[Josh2003]

Originally Posted by aprilsrain

Wait...so you're telling me there's stores that people buy music at?

It's funny...I can't really remember the last CD that I bought in a store. Probably Gift of Screws. Don't get me wrong, I still *pay* for music and support the artists...I just prefer to do it via iTunes now.

However, if Stevie/FM are involved, I will continue to buy the hard copy...just because I need to have the booklet and all :-)

[aprilsrain]

Slightly unrelated but store related... did TISL have any singles with b-sides that were released that I'm missing?

[GoldDustOrphan]

One sidenote: Soundscan only accounts for U.S. sales, so these sales figures do not include her worldwide sales.

[tabruns]

In regards to Enchanted keep in mind that it counts as a multi-disc album for certification reasons. When you take the number of sales and multiply it by 3 you do get 500,000+, hence its gone Gold.

I think in terms of official certs Nicks is at:

Bella Donna - Quadruple Platinum
The Wild Heart - Double Platinum
Rock A Little - Platinum
The Other Side of the Mirror - Platinum
TimeSpace - Platinum
Street Angel - Gold
Enchanted - Gold
Trouble In Shangri-La - Gold
Crystal Visions - 350K so far
Soundstage Sessions - 68K so far
In Your Dreams - ?

So Nicks is basically 11 million + in sales, which is a hell of a solo career in and of itself

[dersaw]

Originally Posted by tabruns

In regards to Enchanted keep in mind that it counts as a multi-disc album for certification reasons. When you take the number of sales and multiply it by 3 you do get 500,000+, hence its gone Gold.

I think in terms of official certs Nicks is at:

Bella Donna - Quadruple Platinum
The Wild Heart - Double Platinum
Rock A Little - Platinum
The Other Side of the Mirror - Platinum
TimeSpace - Platinum
Street Angel - Gold
Enchanted - Gold
Trouble In Shangri-La - Gold
Crystal Visions - 350K so far
Soundstage Sessions - 68K so far
In Your Dreams - ?

So Nicks is basically 11 million + in sales, which is a hell of a solo career in and of itself

Presume this is just USA! What about the rest of the World?

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by dersaw

Presume this is just USA! What about the rest of the World?

it is just the US and I could never find figures on that except that The Wild Heart wentSilver in the uk, and Rock A Little and The Other Side Mirror went Gold. There are no other figures. I'm sure that Bella Donna had to have done something in Canada and such, but I can't find anything about any of the other countries.

[Jondalar]

Fleet Foxes keeps dropping the price of their CD. They are competing with Stevie for chart position this week. There is CD is now at 7.99 on Amazon and they dropped their CD price on iTunes to 9.99. They were thumping Stevie all month with an 8.99 price and then last night and today she surpassed them. Now their price drops a dollar.

[Bryan]

But just to add:RE: SA 'low sales'..it was *deleted* as far back as 2000. I remember someone trying to dispute that years ago on here,but that is the fact.It could not be ordered in,new OR imported to stores like HMV.
It was certainly an unusual occurance,for an album to be deleted-as it was with Oasis ' "Be Here Now" CD.They are the only albums I had ever known to be deleted way back,relatively soon after their releases.

However SA remained available through amazon.com. It has been reissued (as in reprinted and made available,not remastered,sadly) along with RAL and TOSOTM as of March 2011.

[Jondalar]

the price of In Your Dreams has finally lowered to $9.99 on Amazon.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

it is just the US and I could never find figures on that except that The Wild Heart wentSilver in the uk, and Rock A Little and The Other Side Mirror went Gold. There are no other figures. I'm sure that Bella Donna had to have done something in Canada and such, but I can't find anything about any of the other countries.

"Bella Donna" hit number 11 in the UK...in 1981 that was a much bigger deal than it is now. So I'm sure she would've got some decent sales from it. "Otherside Of the Mirror" was a big hit here, reaching #3 in the album charts and spawning 2 top 40 singles. TISL did nothing over here, and I haven't seen it in a music store in years. Even when I was in HMV on Oxford Street in London and they had LOADS of Stevie stuff (including Street Angel) but they didn't have TISL. Usually, the only ones they have are Crystal Visions, Soundstage and maybe Bella Donna. Not seen Timespace around for years either.

I'd really like to see Stevie release a boxsett of all her albums, digitally remastered with bonus tracks and demo's all in the 1 set (kinda like the Abba "The Albums" boxsett).