28-09-2014, 13:22
.....your wiki list is out of date!
your list youre showing quotes Elvis Presley as selling 207million albums with his Estate's 'claimed' sales list at 500-600 million, yet(are you ready for this Jazzbo)......
when i was at Graceland in August 2011, there was an award on one of the award walls in Graceland from the RIAA congratultaing Elvis Presley on worldwide album sales figures of "one billion album sales worldwide" that award was given to the Presley Estate by the RIAA almost a decade prior to me getting there,which makes Presley's feat achieved sometime probably around 2001-2004 from memory....
The Beatles also achieved the one billion sales mark a couple of years ago in a Rolling Stone article i read with Macca a couple of years ago and Macca was presented with a plaque from the RIAA for the feat....
also, after thoroughly reading the wiki article you posted i see that there is no reference to "digital download" albums, ie: sales via the likes of Itunes.....
the simple fact is....artists or probably more specifically,their record companies, will inflate their sales figues etc for their own means, but the fact remains, i didnt make up the 100million sales figures for Depeche Mode, i got them from an apparent reputable webpage, then cross referenced with another page...
anyone else could have done the same in order to get their answer if they chose to.
your list youre showing quotes Elvis Presley as selling 207million albums with his Estate's 'claimed' sales list at 500-600 million, yet(are you ready for this Jazzbo)......
when i was at Graceland in August 2011, there was an award on one of the award walls in Graceland from the RIAA congratultaing Elvis Presley on worldwide album sales figures of "one billion album sales worldwide" that award was given to the Presley Estate by the RIAA almost a decade prior to me getting there,which makes Presley's feat achieved sometime probably around 2001-2004 from memory....
The Beatles also achieved the one billion sales mark a couple of years ago in a Rolling Stone article i read with Macca a couple of years ago and Macca was presented with a plaque from the RIAA for the feat....
also, after thoroughly reading the wiki article you posted i see that there is no reference to "digital download" albums, ie: sales via the likes of Itunes.....
the simple fact is....artists or probably more specifically,their record companies, will inflate their sales figues etc for their own means, but the fact remains, i didnt make up the 100million sales figures for Depeche Mode, i got them from an apparent reputable webpage, then cross referenced with another page...
anyone else could have done the same in order to get their answer if they chose to.
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.