Has 'New' album reached Platinum sales yet?
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Martin Luther:
I know several die hard Beatles fans who have made up their minds that Paul's solo work is terrible. Bear in mind that they can't name any of his songs apart from Band on the Run. It's strange, there's no reasoning with them.
Yep, I know some of these Beatles fans as well, unfortunately...
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I'm sure he said bigger than Rod.................. https//
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(Now get this, folks: Neil Diamond is on this UK list) The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Artist Albums Of 2014: 1 X ED SHEERAN 2 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH 3 WANTED ON VOYAGE GEORGE EZRA 4 CAUSTIC LOVE PAOLO NUTINI 5 GHOST STORIES COLDPLAY 6 A PERFECT CONTRADICTION PALOMA FAITH 7 FOUR ONE DIRECTION 8 NEVER BEEN BETTER OLLY MURS 9 THE ENDLESS RIVER PINK FLOYD 10 III TAKE THAT 11 1989 TAYLOR SWIFT 12 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING 13 BLUE SMOKE - THE BEST OF DOLLY PARTON 14 PARTNERS BARBRA STREISAND 15 GIRL PHARRELL WILLIAMS 16 LOVE IN THE FUTURE JOHN LEGEND 17 IF YOU WAIT LONDON GRAMMAR 18 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS 19 CHAPTER ONE ELLA HENDERSON 20 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE 21 NO SOUND WITHOUT SILENCE SCRIPT 22 ROYAL BLOOD ROYAL BLOOD 23 MEET THE VAMPS VAMPS 24 BEYONCE BEYONCE 25 ROCK OR BUST AC/DC 26 SONIC HIGHWAYS FOO FIGHTERS 27 48:13:00 KASABIAN 28 SINCE I SAW YOU LAST GARY BARLOW 29 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 30 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE 31 TRUE AVICII 32 THE TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF EVERYTHING ELBOW 33 THE 1975 1975 34 LOVE IN VENICE ANDRE RIEU 35 SYMPHONICA GEORGE MICHAEL 36 STARS COLLABRO 37 IT'S THE GIRLS BETTE MIDLER 38 NIGHT VISIONS IMAGINE DRAGONS 39 MIDNIGHT MEMORIES ONE DIRECTION 40 MELODY ROAD NEIL DIAMOND http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-top-40-biggest-selling-artist-albums-of-2014-3387/
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"...Pop princess Taylor Swift?s 1989 has been proclaimed as the top-selling album of the year, beating out the hugely popular Frozen soundtrack. Billboard reported that 1989, which includes smash hit, ?Shake It Off,? has sold 3.66 million copies since its release in October. The Frozen soundtrack, which has sold 3.53 million copies, toped the best-selling charts every week until the final tracking week, which ended December 28th, as reported by Nielson Music...." http://www.mxdwn.com/2014/12/31/news/taylor-swift%E2%80%99s-1989-is-2014%E2%80%99s-top-selling-album-narrowly-beating-the-frozen-soundtrack/ ____________________________________________________ In my not-so-humble opinion, I think it is a sad commentary that a piece of sh-t like Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" is such a huge hit*. It's got to be one of the worst records I've ever heard -- up there (or down there, rather) with Scotty McCreery's "I Love You This Big" and Enrique Iglesias' "I'm A Freak." : *=For starters, it's a pathetic knock-off of Pharell's "Happy"
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(last year's UK list when NEW was released): The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Artist Albums Of 2013 1 MIDNIGHT MEMORIES ONE DIRECTION 2 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE 3 TO BE LOVED MICHAEL BUBLE 4 SWINGS BOTH WAYS ROBBIE WILLIAMS 5 RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME OLLY MURS 6 UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX BRUNO MARS 7 TIME ROD STEWART 8 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS 9 SINCE I SAW YOU LAST GARY BARLOW 10 HALCYON ELLIE GOULDING 11 BAD BLOOD BASTILLE 12 LES MISERABLES MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING 13 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2 EMINEM 14 JAKE BUGG JAKE BUGG 15 BABEL MUMFORD & SONS 16 RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES DAFT PUNK 17 HOME RUDIMENTAL 18 18 MONTHS CALVIN HARRIS 19 ALL THE LITTLE LIGHTS PASSENGER 20 THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE PINK 21 THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 22 TAKE ME HOME ONE DIRECTION 23 LOVED ME BACK TO LIFE CELINE DION 24 GRAFFITI ON THE TRAIN STEREOPHONICS 25 THE NATION'S FAVOURITE ELVIS SONGS ELVIS PRESLEY 26 THE NEXT DAY DAVID BOWIE 27 RED TAYLOR SWIFT 28 PRISM KATY PERRY 29 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE 30 JAMES ARTHUR JAMES ARTHUR 31 THE LUMINEERS LUMINEERS 32 NIGHT VISIONS IMAGINE DRAGONS 33 IF YOU WAIT LONDON GRAMMAR 34 LONG WAY DOWN TOM ODELL 35 OPPOSITES BIFFY CLYRO 36 MECHANICAL BULL KINGS OF LEON 37 MOON LANDING JAMES BLUNT 38 EVERY KINGDOM BEN HOWARD 39 UNAPOLOGETIC RIHANNA 40 SETTLE DISCLOSURE http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-top-40-biggest-artist-albums-of-2013-2708/
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Here comes a rant ... I think some of you are missing the point. Judging Paul by number of albums sold isn't relevant anymore. Nobody is buying albums. When Taylor Swift released her latest album, it was the best opening-week debut since 2002. It spawned articles saying that it might be the last platinum album ever released. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/06/us-music-taylorswift-charts-idUSKBN0IP2PE20141106 The metrics now are chart position, how long it stays on the chart, but moreso Youtube and Spotify spins. New charted at No. 3 in the U.S., which in recent Paul history (last 30 years) is pretty good. Sure, Flowers IN the Dirt and Off the Ground might have sold more copies, but FITD only peaked at 21 in the U.S. Off the Ground was No. 17. Meanwhile, Flaming Pie reached No. 2 and Chaos No. 6. The bottom line: Don't look at overall sales figures. It won't tell you much nowadays. Staying power is another thing, and his most recent albums have dropped off the charts fairly quickly. That tells me only the die-hards are buying the album. The biggest disappointment to me (and someone touched on this earlier) is that millions of Beatles fans - hell even former Wings/Paul fans - out there who aren't even giving this album a sniff. He performed in front of (roughly) 400,000 people in the U.S. this year. What percentage of those folks have the album? How many die-hard Beatles fans who own every album, can recite the songs by heart, don't own the album? Countless. For whatever reason, Paul lost those fans over the years. Maybe it was the rough patch in the 80s. I don't know. It also comes back to a frustration of mine with society in general. We worship the stuff that was big or popular when we were kids, but we don't give the new stuff a chance. How much would songs from "New", "Chaos" and Flaming Pie be adored if they came out in the 70s - or even 60s. What if Jenny Wren and Queenie Eye were Beatles songs and not Paul solo songs? Anyone who picked up the recent NME special on Paul can see it. Even though the reviews praised New, Chaos, MAF and Flaming Pie, none of the songs got five stars. The last song they gave five stars to? No More Lonely Nights? Paul hasn't released a Five star song in 30 years? Give me a F-ing break. Of course he has. And plenty of those songs that are five stars in the last 30 years are better than his Beatles stuff. This whole love affair and adulation of Beatles in articles, interviews with Paul, etc., has kind of put me off the band, to be honest. Don't get me wrong, I love the songs. I love the albums, but I prefer his solo career for many reasons. One of them being it feels fresh, overlooked and different. It's not played to death. I feel like I am listening to something that hasn't been discovered. There is always something new to find. Too bad most Beatles fans don't see it - or are unwilling to.
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Frank:
nobodytoldme:
'New' sold 190,000 copies in March 2014 in the US, 5 months after the release. Since it was only on the charts for a few weeks in total over there, that total won't be much higher than 200,000 at the most at the moment. And not even near Gold. In the UK, 'Driving Rain' got Silver in a few weeks and stuck there since, 'Chaos And Creation' was Gold after one week, 'Memory Almost Full' wasn't Gold until July 2013 and 'New' has no certification whatsoever. Silver is 60,000, Gold is 100,000 in the UK.
...which probably means it is Paul's worst selling studio album of New material. Don't think that even Press did so poorly. That is sooo disappointing. For me New easily makes it into his TopTen Post - Beatles releases.
Totally different times. The total revenue of music sales worldwide is around 15 billion a year now vs. 40 billion a year not even 20 years ago. The industry collapsed from 2000 on. And even huge acts like Oasis felt that, with record sales of the first 3 albums in the 90's approaching 40 million copies worldwide in total, while the 4 (!) 00's studio records didn't even made it past 15 million in total. And even if you compare acts at their peak, first week sales of their second album in 1996 were 350,000 copies in one week in the UK alone, first week sales of the latest One Direction record didn't even got half of that with 142,000 copies. And that is comparing it to a rare mega debut week, since some albums debut at #1 with only 20,000 copies,an amount where you would hardly make the give or take top 10 in the glory days. And so on.
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Even gold would be nice. If an album (not counting any compilations) of all original Paul material reached US platinum certification, I would probably faint.
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edcrawf:
Even gold would be nice. If an album (not counting any compilations) of all original Paul material reached US platinum certification, I would probably faint.
Gold ain't gonna happen.
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RMartinez:
edcrawf:
Even gold would be nice. If an album (not counting any compilations) of all original Paul material reached US platinum certification, I would probably faint.
Gold ain't gonna happen.
Possibly not. Perhaps not for a long time. Wishful thinking on my part.
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edcrawf:
RMartinez:
edcrawf:
Even gold would be nice. If an album (not counting any compilations) of all original Paul material reached US platinum certification, I would probably faint.
Gold ain't gonna happen.
Possibly not. Perhaps not for a long time. Wishful thinking on my part.
One gripe I kept hearing from U.S. fans was that NEW was not for sale at Macca's concerts. I don't know if those sales make a difference or not, but it seems odd to not sell an album you're promoting on tour.
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audi:
edcrawf:
RMartinez:
edcrawf:
Even gold would be nice. If an album (not counting any compilations) of all original Paul material reached US platinum certification, I would probably faint.
Gold ain't gonna happen.
Possibly not. Perhaps not for a long time. Wishful thinking on my part.
One gripe I kept hearing from U.S. fans was that NEW was not for sale at Macca's concerts. I don't know if those sales make a difference or not, but it seems odd to not sell an album you're promoting on tour.
Couldn't agree more.
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edcrawf:
audi:
edcrawf:
RMartinez:
edcrawf:
Even gold would be nice. If an album (not counting any compilations) of all original Paul material reached US platinum certification, I would probably faint.
Gold ain't gonna happen.
Possibly not. Perhaps not for a long time. Wishful thinking on my part.
One gripe I kept hearing from U.S. fans was that NEW was not for sale at Macca's concerts. I don't know if those sales make a difference or not, but it seems odd to not sell an album you're promoting on tour.
Couldn't agree more.
Yeah, seems really odd to me. And of course, the sales would count toward chart position and/or gold certification so long as they were actual sales and the album wasn't given away with the ticket price.
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Sometimes I imagine Paul McCartney in a conference-room yelling at his staff: "F-ck sake! Me bloody fans understand basic sales and marketing better than you silly, overpaid oafs."
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audi:
Sometimes I imagine Paul McCartney in a conference-room yelling at his staff: "F-ck sake! Me bloody fans understand basic sales and marketing better than you silly, overpaid oafs."
I wish he would say that! But I'm not sure he does. Sometimes the gaps/miscues in the marketing of Paul's albums is just utterly baffling.
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Remember those pop-up mini-shows? Lost opportunities, to say the least.
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Bruce M.:
audi:
Sometimes I imagine Paul McCartney in a conference-room yelling at his staff: "F-ck sake! Me bloody fans understand basic sales and marketing better than you silly, overpaid oafs."
I wish he would say that! But I'm not sure he does. Sometimes the gaps/miscues in the marketing of Paul's albums is just utterly baffling.
Not only that, sometimes the songs he releases for singles make you shake your head. The record DR is a classic example.
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True. "About You" was SCREAMING to be released.
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audi:
edcrawf:
RMartinez:
edcrawf:
Even gold would be nice. If an album (not counting any compilations) of all original Paul material reached US platinum certification, I would probably faint.
Gold ain't gonna happen.
Possibly not. Perhaps not for a long time. Wishful thinking on my part.
One gripe I kept hearing from U.S. fans was that NEW was not for sale at Macca's concerts. I don't know if those sales make a difference or not, but it seems odd to not sell an album you're promoting on tour.
Insane choice indeed. It's baffling. I can only assume his team/he thinks it comes across as cheap-y, but the same could be said about selling a shirt. But it's clear from everything that when he is performing, he isn't promoting any release, ever. The Beach Boys released their last/final/reunion album during the tour, having the album on display everywhere for a fair price - even with a "buy 10, get the 10th one signed"-deal, something which is really below McCartney's standards, just like all the QVC promo they did, but still - which made it their biggest album chart debut since 1965. Springsteen, Dylan, Tom Petty, and the likes, all release their albums in a carefully planned slow sales week. McCartney does it while Rihanna, Katy Perry, or whoever is releasing another record-breaking album, while big rock acts and strong second week sales by other artists are also in the running. So many of the other oldies names mentioned easily hit #1, which enlarges the longevity of the sales big time, and that way the appreciation by a larger audience. Because a fair charting position doesn't say much. McCartney hit #3 with 'New', but was dropped big time after that and will be his first album in 30 years who will not even come close to a certification in the US. And this is all during yet another period in which he's (one of the) top selling live acts. And that comes back to proper promo. McCartney's team thinks that in the current age it's enough to flood the media from the moment the album is on sale in 4 days with the old-fashioned late night show performances in which he talks about the past, a signing, and some goofy pictures on a Facebook account. And then it all stops, as if the "project" has ended its "cycle". It starts with no buzz leading up to the album and it ends with a re-release of the same songs in a different package, which only makes his fans buy the album they already bought once again, a year later. My point is: it's certain from all this McCartney/his team doesn't give a rat's ass about it. (And I don't think McCartney as an artist should, 55 years after his debut).