Ugly Devil
Well-Known Member
Can anyone provide a link to Morrissey's album sales? Not overall but for each album?
Thank You! Any idea what World Peace sold?In the UK or US? Or worldwide?
In the US he sold 2,5 million records in the Soundscan-era (from 1992) up to 2007:
Your Arsenal: 366,047
Bona Drag: 360,977
Vauxhall & I: 293,017
Viva Hate: 234,804
You Are The Quarry: 230,169
Kill Uncle: 221,293
Best of Morrissey: 179,746
Ringleader of The Tormentors: 97,502
Maladjusted: 88,554
World Of Morrissey: 69,357
Southpaw Grammar: 67,451
See here: https://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=08/03/05/1811210
In the UK I don't know the exact numbers.
Quarry went platinum and sold about 350,000.
Viva Hate, Vauxhall and I and Ringleader and also Suedehead, the Best of and Greatest Hits went gold, thus all sold 100,000-300,000.
The other ones 50,000-100,000.
His worldwide album sales must be something from 10-15 million I would say.
In the UK or US? Or worldwide?
In the US he sold 2,5 million records in the Soundscan-era (from 1992) up to 2007:
Your Arsenal: 366,047
Bona Drag: 360,977
Vauxhall & I: 293,017
Viva Hate: 234,804
You Are The Quarry: 230,169
Kill Uncle: 221,293
Best of Morrissey: 179,746
Ringleader of The Tormentors: 97,502
Maladjusted: 88,554
World Of Morrissey: 69,357
Southpaw Grammar: 67,451
See here: https://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=08/03/05/1811210
In the UK I don't know the exact numbers.
Quarry went platinum and sold about 350,000.
Viva Hate, Vauxhall and I and Ringleader and also Suedehead, the Best of and Greatest Hits went gold, thus all sold 100,000-300,000.
The other ones 50,000-100,000.
His worldwide album sales must be something from 10-15 million I would say.
Seems odd that Your Arsenal - his best selling album in the US - is actually one of the worst selling in the UK.
Maybe the bad press at the time (NME) did have its effects on record sales after all, if so, it doesn't bode well for LiHS.
Seems odd that Your Arsenal - his best selling album in the US - is actually one of the worst selling in the UK.
Maybe the bad press at the time (NME) did have its effects on record sales after all, if so, it doesn't bode well for LiHS.
Seems odd that Your Arsenal - his best selling album in the US - is actually one of the worst selling in the UK.
Maybe the bad press at the time (NME) did have its effects on record sales after all, if so, it doesn't bode well for LiHS.
I was checking the record sales of other artists. I was surprised to see how one of the most influential albums of all time, "Never Mind the Bollocks" has sold 1.3 million copies ( http://whitgunn.freeservers.com/Davemusic/S/sex-pistols/never-mind-the-bollocks.html ).
Whilst Green Day's first album has sold 20 million copies ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Day_discography )
The Sex Pistols are certainly more relevant than Green Day.... even if the first album of Green Day was sold 20 million copies and the only album of the Sex Pistols only 1.3
The relevance of a band or an artist is hard to judge by Record Sales.
Quite. People in the music world often bang on about the fact that the Velvet Underground hardly sold any albums, but most of the people that bought them went on to form bands themselves.