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Title: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: kirkmc- banned on the run on April 23, 2010, 07:01:13 AM 1) Holland
2) Surf's Up 3) L.A. Light 4) Endless Summer 5) Spirit of America 6) Love You (Read somewhere Al Jardine said Love You sold around 50,000, or so) And what's the total BBY sales figures world wide? I'm guessing 100-300 million? Beatles have topped a billion! Thanx in advance. Thanx in advance. Title: Re: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: Alex on April 23, 2010, 09:39:08 AM 6) Love You (Read somewhere Al Jardine said Love You sold around 50,000, or so) Title: Re: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: Fall Breaks on April 23, 2010, 09:49:30 AM I think it says in Steven Gaines' book that Light Album sold 400,000...? Or am I wrong? Again?
Title: Re: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: slothrop on April 23, 2010, 10:47:28 AM Endless Summer has to be a couple million right? It's a beautiful day in California right now and I can easily see how that comp became so popular. My favorite BB is definitely post Pet Sounds but there is no denying the youthful power of those early songs. And yeah, sealed copies of 15 Big Ones and Love You are still available on eBay.
Title: Re: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: Andrew G. Doe on April 23, 2010, 12:21:18 PM Certified RIAA sales for Beach Boys product:
http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/Riaa.html (http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/Riaa.html) Title: Re: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: Jay on April 23, 2010, 07:37:01 PM Certified RIAA sales for Beach Boys product: According to those numbers, Still Cruisin has done surprisingly well. How much do we want to bet that the "hits" helped it along? ;)http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/Riaa.html (http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/Riaa.html) Title: Re: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: kirkmc- banned on the run on April 23, 2010, 11:32:15 PM Trippy. Holland & Surf's Up sold nadda then? Spirit of America" had to be at least Double Platinum. L.A. Light was the last sorta hit lp then...400,000's pretty good!
Title: Re: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: Steve Mayo on April 24, 2010, 06:25:03 AM i had an interview, i forget in which magazine, from the mid 70's. it was with a WB exec (not sure but i seem to remember it as being with D.B.). he was talking about record sales. on the subject of surf's up he stated that the lp had great sales at first but when the returns came in the positive sales figures were almost wiped out. but (at the time of the interview) the lp had healthy sales each year and was approaching gold status.
but no figures in numbers were actually given. Title: Re: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: Wirestone on April 24, 2010, 09:52:34 AM Jay -- it wasn't the hits -- it was Kokomo! How many people wanted to buy a new BB album after hearing their unexpected number 1 hit? Probably enough to move a decent number of records.
Title: Re: Anyone Know how many copies these lp's have sold over the year? Post by: Fun Is In on April 24, 2010, 11:50:14 AM My local store, "Everybody's Records" in Portland, had perhaps 50 copies of Surf's Up in the cut-out bin in the early to mid 70s. Love You became easy to find in the cut-out bins too, though in smaller numbers, for several years after sales ran out of gas. Then as now, the cut out bin contents were indicators of over-production and returned product being sent back out at lowered price.
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