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| Author | Comment | Klausi
Mar-07-2005, 11:34 GMT
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 | "The essential S&G" got a platinum disc (sales of over 1 million units in the US) in February. Seems that they have closed their archive, which was for free. | | | | Klausi
Mar-07-2005, 14:04 GMT
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| Here is the complete list:
US-sales Simon & Garfunkel:
Wednesday morning: over 1 million
Sounds Of Silence: 3
Parsley sage...: 3
Bookends: 2
The Graduate: 2
Bridge: 8
Greatest Hits: 13
Concert in Central...: 2
Collected Works: 1
The Best of S&G: 0,5
The Essential: 1
US-Album sales are over 40 Mio, since all figures are "over, but less than" the next million (resp. the first at "The Best of S&G").
Gold singles with sales of more than 1 million (could well be 3 or 4, since there is no higher than gold, singles sales dropped in the seventies):
The sound of silence
Mrs. Robinson
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Cecilia
Paul Simon:
Paul Simon: over 1 Million
There goes Rhymin: 1
Live rhymin`: 0,5
Still crazy: 0,5 (wrong!)
Greatest Hits: 1
One-trick pony: 0,5
Hearts And Bones: less than 0,5
Graceland: over 5
Negotiations...: 1
Rhythm of: 2
1964-1993: over 0,5
The capeman: less than 0,5
YTO over 0,5
US-Album sales about 15 million plus. After "Still crazy" Simon suited Columbia for incorrect payments; so Columbia did not announce the platinum status, which exists only since 1977. Still crazy is surely the best selling Simon-album of the seventies.
His gold Singles with more than 1 million copies sold in the US are:
Loves Me Like A Rock
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Slip slidin`away
For worldwide album sales it is quite realistic to double the totals.
| | | | Bodo
Mar-07-2005, 14:10 GMT
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 | double or multiple with 3.
Graceland sold more than 14 million copies :-)
Anyway, So S&G sold 40 million albums, and Elvis sold more than 1000 million albums..but he is on place 94 hehe ;-) | | | | Klausi
Mar-07-2005, 16:31 GMT
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| And, he once did not know but to sing "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
One of the hightlights in Simon`s career. Saw it on TV months ago.
His hero sang his song, which he with Elvis songs only did in the bathroom and in a short scene of One-trick pony. | | | | Klausi
Mar-08-2005, 13:28 GMT
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| To complete these dry statistics:
No 1 album sellers in the US are the Beatles with about 170 Million.
No 2 is Garth Brooks with about 105. Then Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley with also over 100.
All with the exception of Garth Brooks and Willie Nelson in the Top 30 are worldwide stars.
S&G are ca. No. 30. Plus Paul Simon = ca. No. 15.
About 10 ìn the Top 30 are English bands/artists.
2.)
BMI holds more than 60 % market-share of all songwriters as clients.
No. 7 BMI song with more than 6 Million performances in the US-radio-stations is Mrs. Robinson.
(1 = You`ve lost that lovin` feelìn with over 8, then Never my Love(?), Yesterday, Stand by me, Can`t take my eyes off you(?), Sitting on the dock of the bay.)
18 = The sound of silence over 5
19 = Bridge Over Troubled Water over 5
31 Scarborough Fair over 5
Feelin Groovey is over 3, as well as Homeward Bound. | | | | |
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