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

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

--- Blumetakt@aol.com wrote:
> Could Pet Sounds have gone platinum after the Box Set or after Brian went out
> doing the Pet Sounds in it's entirety?  Which was a great show (imo). Perhaps
> this is the reason?  

The PET SOUNDS SESSIONS box set came out in November 1997, and the live PET
SOUNDS shows started in early 2002 (the live CD came out later the same year).
So I think we can eliminate those two as possibilities. 

The most recent reissue of the original album, the split mono/stereo CD, came
out in July 1999, with almost no fanfare whatsoever. I doubt that this reissue
would have caused over half a million copies to be sold in less than a year
(prior to April 2000, when it "went Platinum") of an album that hadn't even
sold half a million copies in the preceding 23 years.

I think Occam's razor can be applied here. An album that has supposedly never
sold 500,000 copies finally goes Gold, and less than two months later, goes
Platinum. Either someone has suddenly stumbled on missing sales records
accounting for at least half a million copies from the previous decades and
decided to update their records (one certification at a time) or someone at the
RIAA decided that, accurate sales records or not, the album is so well-known
that it probably went Platinum a long time ago. And if it really didn't, who
would argue against it?

--Philip


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