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i know that this has been asked before, but does domebody actually know where i could the number of copies that have been sold by idm artists? does such a place exist? im just curious... all ive heard is people saying "ive heard that afx/ae have sold X copies of X albums". but i dont know if such statements are 'valid'. thanks for the help. |
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yeah I would be interested in this too... |
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maybe phobiazero would know such information... |
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as would i.... ive never seen info like this before |
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i always get the impression that the labels "try" to keep that hidden or confidential, as if they do not want the people to know the numbers. |
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Afx twin has sold 1021 copies of drukqs. Incidentally half of these float in and out of used stores. Plaid Double figure sold 1000000 copies cause it is so much better than Drukqs. Same with confield. That one sold 2000000 copies. Geogaddi transcends any of this linear thoughtscapey stuff, and just materializes in people cd players, at the same time $20 dissapears from their wallets. Go Plastic sole 2057 copies cause its just about twice as good as drukqs, but not much more. |
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damn, you know everything ;) |
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I know. Thank you :) |
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well obviously you know that... :) |
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it's pretty precise too. man, if i hadnt bought confield, they only wouldve sold 199 999 copies. im glad i did. |
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The numbers have actually stopped growing now, cause people have stopped buying warp releases, cause warp be too trendy. Nowadays warp makes all their money through osmosis, and any warp cd you think you are buying has actually been published and distributed by a label called "seinior flutentauts lost 12cent chain". It only looks like the warp symbol because you guys aren't paying attention. |
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You could ask the RIAA. ha ha! |
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Holy shit!!! you gotta be kidding? Druqks only sound a little over a THOUSAND COPIES???? Richard D. James is one of the greatest musicians alive!!!!! How could such a tragic thing occur?? This guy should be richer than Bill Gates!!!! |
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he's obviously kidding. or is he? ;) |
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no. . . . . after all, if Richard D. James isn't one of the greatest musicians alive right now, WHO IS? |
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rdj album sold one HUINDRED COPIES *gasp* a HUNDERD thats allllloooooottttttt a HUNDRED ima do my best to make myself look like a little kiddie because i am one rawr |
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drukqs sold? |
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what did it sell? |
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haha I'm not that gullible. . . 100 copies LOL!!!!! |
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Yah I also am hearing that this "druqks" thing hasn't caught on with too many of the hardcore druggies yet. Plus druqks have been banned in many countries. . . including Richard's own, Britian, and all of North America. ;_; |
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yeah, it's only sold on international seas, where there are no laws. |
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Windowlicker sold copies. I think Drukqs would have easily matched that (it would only have to sell 150,000 since it's a double). |
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For perspective, moby's play sold 2,000,000+ copies in the US alone. |
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Drukqs actually went platinum. In the UK. Of corse, those UKers will give any artist that manages to sell ten discs in the us a platinum. |
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uk platinum = how many copies? |
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50,000 I believe |
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Back in 2000, almost a year after it's release, Windowlicker was still moving between 100-200 copies a week in the US. I doubt very many electronic music albums have sold 1000000 plus, with the vast majority selling in the tens of thousands and a few notables selling over 100,000. The Come To Daddy EP was (is) Aphex Twin's best selling single yet. |
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Im not surprised at Moby selling that many. Good riddens. id rather ditch all his cds in some mexico desert like they did that E.T. Atari game cartrige LOL! |
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I wonder how many birthday cakes are sold per day? |
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for albums uk platinum = 300,000 uk gold = 100,000 uk silver = 60,000 for singles uk platinum = 600,000 uk gold = 400,000 uk silver = 200,000 there has been a new ruling this week regarding sales of mid-price (i.e.on the cheap) that they now count towards the awards. before this week they didn't. also, any album in the uk costing less that 6 pounds has to sell double the figure to qualify for the award. |
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E.T. Atari game cartridge ditched in a mexican desert? I'm interested in hearing the story behind that.. |
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Im pretty sure Autechre hit triple platinum then with confield :) :) :) Or am I just a heavy wisher? |
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play by moby is 5x platinum so thats sold 5 x 300,000 (minimum) which is 1.5m also a quick note - the awards actually count pre-sales not actual sales, i.e., the number of copies bought in by the shops rather than what they've sold hope this helps |
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Cabbog: Like a million or so of them. Head down there right now with a shovel and pick wish one you want. No gaurentees it will work. The story goes like this that back in the day ET didn't sell so well (they, Atari, got a huge huge backlog of unsold ET games) and I believe at that time the videogame crash came about so no one was buying. So to get rid of them they took them down to the desert in mexico and burried them. Something like that. I forget the whole story. Its one of the worst made games in history apparently. |
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this is the insanity that keeps from even submitting to a label if the record industryl could possibly be such ababble i kan;t will myself to recruit these shanananaganz jesus! |
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i wonder, if you were to add all the U.S. record sales for warp releases together, would the label have a platinum album? |
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drukqs must have sold over 1000 copys coz he was nominated for male solo artist of the year at the brit awards after its release...and it was not banned here! |
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1000 is nothing; i know unsigned artists who sell more than 1000 copies. zeus thinks he can sell over 500 copies. did you mean 10,000? 100,000? |
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i don't know if Underworld qualifies as idm, but I recall reading Second Toughest in the Infants selling around 450.000 copies world wide. |
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"Plaid Double figure sold 1000000 copies cause it is so much better than Drukqs. Same with confield" Hahahahha I dont think anyone here really knows for sure how many albums sold on a particular release... except maybe slodgechops..... I wouldnt really take anything being said about sales on here too seriously |
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i get the impression that small labels want to hide their sales... never ask a man how much money he makes if youre living in a capitalist society. |
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Good topic, Cortex. I find this stuff fascinating. =D |
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drukqs didn't go platinum in the UK. |
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o much den? u kno? |
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i think it's fairly common knowledge that smokers delight by nightmares on wax is warps biggest ever seller. followed by frequencies by lfo... |
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According to the Scandinavian distributor of Warp, Music has the right sold over 100.000. There has been threads like this before, where a guy claimed RDJ to be the most sold AFX-album with 130.000 |
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maybe not sell 500 copies. i plan on sending alot out as demos etc (ALOT) |
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right after start confield had sold about 50 copies in germany and about 10 in austria (!!!) i know that cause a friend of mine worked at zomba. |
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LOl, are you sure ? I got my copy of Confield from E-Bay.............jeez, that be sad, so much good music gets ignored....... |
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i'm sure mhtrtc has got to be one of the top three best selling warp albums. got to be more than lfo. hasn't it?? |
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