Originally Posted by Apollo Creed:
“It actually sold 700,000 in 3 days. It was, bizarrely, released on a Thursday. I'm pretty sure it sold over a million in it's first week but can't find anywhere that gives information for the Thursday to Thursday sales
I've never seen an album as hyped as that one. It was everywhere. I remember Radio One had to play jingles in the middle of the songs from the album to stop people taping them from the radio! How things change”
The only place that I can find figures for the full week is NME which ranked the fastest-selling albums of all time. They however claim 420,000 sales on its first day of release but here are the figures:
Thursday to Saturday: 695,761
Thursday to Thursday: 763,735
In 2 weeks it had sold over 1 million copies.
Also just read that by 1999 it was the album most sold to second hand record shops and Noel said of the album "It's the sound of ... a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a ****. There's no bass to it at all; I don't know what happened to that ... And all the songs are really long and all the lyrics are shit and for every millisecond Liam is not saying a word, there's a ****in' guitar riff in there in a Wayne's World stylie". So judging by that glowing recommendation, I won't be rushing to listen to it lol.