Re: Joni's album sales

[Dan Olson]

You raise a very good point about STAS, and the longevity of album sales. I'll bet Joni has sold large numbers of her earlier stuff on CD (some to people who already had the vinyl, some who didn't). It would be fascinating to know in general all the information about her album sales (the rates at which they've sold, the breakdown of total CD's vs. LP's of the same album); I'd like to see graphs of each album's instantaneous sales between its release date and the present. Is it public information? Do labels protect this information? Do they lie about sales (to avoid paying royalties)? If anyone can direct me to this information, I could compile it all and publish it on the web somewhere.

At 09:58 PM 2/3/2003 +0000, you wrote:

I wouldn't know myself but I'm sure there must be a way of finding out that
stuff. I read somewhere that STAS went gold after a while even though it
didn't debut so well.
Also I get a feeling that BLUE has sold the most copies over all.

Stephen Toogood


> I compiled some data found at http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/joni.html
> Peak = peak position, weeks = number of weeks on chart (top 200?)
>
> STASG:  Peak: #189, weeks: 9
> Clouds: Peak: #31, weeks: 36
> LOTC:   Peak: #27, weeks: 33
> Blue:   Peak: #15, weeks: 28
> FTR:    Peak: #11, weeks: 28
> CAS:    Peak: #2 (4 weeks), weeks: 64
> MOA:    Peak: #2 (1 week), weeks: 22
> THOSL:  Peak: #4, weeks: 17
> Hejira: Peak: #13, weeks: 18
> DJRD:   Peak: #25, weeks: 13
> Mingus: Peak: #17, weeks: 18
> SandL:  Peak: #38, weeks: 16
> WTRF:   Peak: #25, weeks: 21
> DED:    Peak: #63, weeks: 19
> CMIARS: Peak: #45, weeks: 16
> NRH:    Peak: #41, weeks: 14
> TI:     Peak: #47, weeks: 10
>
> Of course, what I really want to know is how many total sales have there
> been to date for each album?  Anyone know where one could get that info?