....and just to really blow everyone's mind, please note that last month
Steve Earle earned his "GOLD" status for Guitar Town!! That came out in 1986
and has only sold 500,000 copies. What the heck is goin' on....
Kate (happy to have contributed to the 500k)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I wrote:
>
> > If we're talking about the decade, I don't know that Nirvana's sold more
> > albums than Gill; the RIAA database is down right now, but I'll
> > report back.
>
> And though the database is still down (wake up over there!), on taking
> another look at the best-sellers list, I see that Nirvana clocks in at 23
> million units (a million less than AJ, which I find surprising), whereas
> Gill must be somewhere under 20 million. Still, as I went on to say:
>
> > Gill's had a number of multi-platinum albums, though, and
> > is clearly an immense commercial success...
>
> And just to quantify that, he's got 6 of them, which is immense commercial
> success in my book <g>.
