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.
