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Re: (TV) Royalties: Do the Simple Math/Carlucci lost archived post?



Quoting Cliff McLenehan <klif@volny.cz>:
> 
> > Bowie was selling 250,000 total copies of just Scary Monsters 
> > (worldwide), and then in 1989 and 1990s,the combined total 
> > copies of these two records (Sound + Vision [Box] and 
> > Scary Monsters was only about 300,000 ---except for the first
> > year of Sound & Vision's release when total combined spiked at 
> > 650,000 worldwide.
> 
> I'm not sure you're figures are right Leo. Scarey Monsters has sold 
> 350,000 in Britain alone. It was his most succesful album there since 
> Station To Station. Worldwide sales are closer to the million mark. 

Well, as far as USA sales go, of the two releases only Sound + Vision has earned
the Gold certification (500,000 sales).

http://www.riaa.org/Gold-Intro.cfm
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