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Old 07-04-2015, 10:44
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I'm going on wikipedia where it tells you silver/gold/platinum etc and adding the rounded up figures. Fun fact: TIMTTMY sold one million and sixty thousand copies.
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Old 07-04-2015, 10:49
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I've also never ever read any information whatsoever about how well/poorly I Killed The Zeitgeist and The Great Western sold.
Perhaps sometimes they don't even bother counting!
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Old 07-04-2015, 12:54
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I'm going on wikipedia where it tells you silver/gold/platinum etc and adding the rounded up figures. Fun fact: TIMTTMY sold one million and sixty thousand copies.
Yet on the TIMTTMY entry, listed sales/shipments add up to 1,277,153 as of July 2014. (With a further certification of a million sales in Europe, which is presumably just the previous figure.)

I fear we'll never get even remotely accurate figures. All we can say is that TIMTTMY definitely sold more than a million, and that is the band's best-selling album.

We could e-mail Sony/Columbia and ask, I suppose.
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Old 07-04-2015, 12:59
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Perhaps sometimes they don't even bother counting!
I would imagine The Great Western sold considerably more than I Killed The Zeitgeist, but I suspect the latter's sales weren't as shoddy as tradition would have it. Not Manics-class sales, of course, but it wouldn't surprise me if IKTZ cleared 30,000 sales worldwide - which is half a British 'silver' certification.

The album received good (if not outstanding) reviews and there were probably a fair few who bought it out of curiosity, quite aside from all us diehard Manics fans who bought it too. Word of mouth that it was actually a bit good probably accounted for a few thousand sales too.

If I had to guess I'd guess The Great Western shifted 50,000 worldwide.

I emphasise that these numbers are plucked entirely out of the air and have no basis in anything I have read, and/or possibly objective reality.
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Old 07-04-2015, 13:56
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Ahhh someone email!! I really wanna know how many Futurology has sold.
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Ahhh someone email!! I really wanna know how many Futurology has sold.
Me too. I desperately want it to have sold more than PFAYM (which went gold).
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Well, in this piece of article featuring an interview with Nicky, it is said that TIMTTMY sold over 4 million copies worldwide... http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/.../#.V51TE-iwEz0
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I wonder how these figures are compiled. I mean, I know back in the day there used to be cases of singles being chart ineligible if they came with a poster, shit like that. Not really about the official charts this though.. if we were to find figures for The Holy Bible would that include the original, its imports, the 10th anniversary, the 20th anniversary, cd, vinyl, cassette, minidisc, digital... Or do the 10th and 20th anniversaries get counted separately?

I'd be interested in knowing how many copies of this or that actually exist. The vast majority of my collection is second hand anyway. There are probably copies of This Is My Truth that have been bought and sold a dozen times, certainly the album I've seen crop up most in second hand and charity shops. Christ, what a can of worms it'd be if we were counting second hand sales too..
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Wonder how many copies the last two albums have sold to date? I bet Nicky knows all the stats exactly but I guess we'll never find out.
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Well, but we can have a pretty good guess with the best selling albums, for EMG I say it must be more than 1 million in the UK alone, so more than 1M for sure worldwide, in that article it points to the 4M mark for TIMTTMY, and Wikipedia points to the 5M mark, so I say TIMTTMY sold between 4 to 5M worldwide, idk, just a guess...
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