On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:23:18 EDT said:
>....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....
Especially since Guitar Town was a #1 country album. What gives? Was
country music just in the doldrums (in terms of popularity like number of
radio stations/album sales)? Or is the ability of country stars to sell
millions of albums a relatively new thing? (I'm talking strictly about
non-crossover country stars - though even the crossover/non-crossover
dichotomy can get fuzzy.
Evan Cooper (overly puzzled on a Sunday morn_
np: Cokie Roberts and the Tipster pontificating about teens. Double Ack!!
>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>.
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