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Oasis Sold 700,000 Albums In A Week!
UK sales alone, including 350,000 in one day !!
I hope this gives a sense of perspective to those who constantly bicker over these teeny bopper artists sales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(album) Rhianna, Adele, Kyle, Britney, Taylor Swift etc can only in their dreams think of shifting copies of that volume. |
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"Retrospectively however, the album is viewed by much of the music press, fans, and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated"
Don't judge a record by its first-day sales!
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Masterplan was their best album I think.
I liked them a lot initially - I remember buying Supersonic as a single (weirdly as a 45 even though records were disappearing from shops). By the time the big 2nd album came out though every second kid wore an oasis t-shirt and their songs had become so ubiquitous that I had tired of them a lot. There isn't a band around that I can listen to every day and still want to hear and when you are a teenager and around other kids and their bedrooms and school common rooms and university pubs and in pubs at weekends then you end up hearing the same music over and over again. The worst of it is when someone loves a band and has their two albums but maybe owns about 10 albums in total, so plays what they have to death. In a place I worked we had a system where each of us had control of the work CD player one night a week. All but one of us mixed up what we played and had a large number of albums. The other guy played two Oasis albums, a Charlatans album, and a Paul Weller album on rotation for months. Within no time at all we were all just bringing in our mp3 players with headphones. Popularity of an album is (probably better now saying was) a negative for me because I don't like hearing the same songs too often. Probably why I like Masterplan the most. |
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UK sales alone, including 350,000 in one day !!
I hope this gives a sense of perspective to those who constantly bicker over these teeny bopper artists sales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(album) Rhianna, Adele, Kyle, Britney, Taylor Swift etc can only in their dreams think of shifting copies of that volume. You do realise Taylor Swift has sold over a million copies in the first week of her last 3 albums? |
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You do realise Taylor Swift has sold over a million copies in the first week of her last 3 albums?
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It's a different ballgame now,buying an album doesn't involve going to Woolworths on a wet and windy day
It's mostly a few clicks on a mouse |
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UK sales alone, including 350,000 in one day !!
I hope this gives a sense of perspective to those who constantly bicker over these teeny bopper artists sales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(album) Rhianna, Adele, Kyle, Britney, Taylor Swift etc can only in their dreams think of shifting copies of that volume. And has sold 90 million albums overall (worldwide) so I don't really get your point |
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We're talking UK sales not a country that has 6 x the population.
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We're talking UK sales not a country that has 6 x the population.
You can't just say 'I hope this gives a sense of perspective to those who constantly bicker over these teeny bopper artists sales' and only include one country. All of the acts you have mentioned have sold more albums than Oasis overall |
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Yeah I'm sure Adele is crying into her cornflakes with her pitiful album sales........
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Oasis were at their peak in 1997 and were one of the most hyped bands by the time Be Here Now was on the verge of being released. The media made the whole release day a big TV event too.
1997 remains one of the biggest years ever for music sales for both singles and albums. If a really hyped up artist was on the verge of releasing a new album this year (like Adele for example) it would struggle to sell 200k in its first week. The UK albums market has changed significantly ever since people discovered the joys of cherry picking individual tracks off albums ten years ago. It was the beginning of the end back then, and it's gradually got worse. Maybe in a few years when hundreds of thousands more people use streaming services, we might start seeing albums selling closer to 200k in its first week rather than 70k which seems to be the benchmark at the moment for the biggest album releases. |
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UK sales alone, including 350,000 in one day !!
I hope this gives a sense of perspective to those who constantly bicker over these teeny bopper artists sales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(album) Rhianna, Adele, Kyle, Britney, Taylor Swift etc can only in their dreams think of shifting copies of that volume. |
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Well britney holds the record in America for the highest ever 1st week sales of 1.4m or something like that, sales that oasis can only dream about getting. Good try though.
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It's totally spurious to compare record sales from 1997 - basically the pre-internet/download era - with now. Oasis didn't have to worry about millions downloading their albums for free. But I admit for a Beatles tribute band they had pretty impressive sales.
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Yeah I'm sure Adele is crying into her cornflakes with her pitiful album sales........
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Oasis were at their peak in 1997 and were one of the most hyped bands by the time Be Here Now was on the verge of being released. The media made the whole release day a big TV event too.
1997 remains one of the biggest years ever for music sales for both singles and albums. If a really hyped up artist was on the verge of releasing a new album this year (like Adele for example) it would struggle to sell 200k in its first week. The UK albums market has changed significantly ever since people discovered the joys of cherry picking individual tracks off albums ten years ago. It was the beginning of the end back then, and it's gradually got worse. Maybe in a few years when hundreds of thousands more people use streaming services, we might start seeing albums selling closer to 200k in its first week rather than 70k which seems to be the benchmark at the moment for the biggest album releases. Also, Oasis were part of the last great music scene or movement we have seen in pop music, BritPop. There hasn't been much to rival Cool Britannia in UK pop culture since. |
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Also I'm not really sure how Kylie is a 'teeny bopper artist' when she is 47 and been around longer than Oasis
And when most teenagers hear 'Kylie' now they think Jenner. Sad but true |
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It's totally spurious to compare record sales from 1997 - basically the pre-internet/download era - with now. Oasis didn't have to worry about millions downloading their albums for free. But I admit for a Beatles tribute band they had pretty impressive sales.
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And when most teenagers hear 'Kylie' now they think Jenner. Sad but true
Kylie Jenner doesn't even need to be a good singer, autotune could do all the work for her but if its gets the "teenyboppers" interested then it might provide a certain other Kylie another hit.
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Hang on Adele's 21 sold more than What's The Story so not sure I buy all this things are different now malarky.
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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 |
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UK sales alone, including 350,000 in one day !!
I hope this gives a sense of perspective to those who constantly bicker over these teeny bopper artists sales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(album) Rhianna, Adele, Kyle, Britney, Taylor Swift etc can only in their dreams think of shifting copies of that volume. Quote:
I know this is really OT but Kylie Minogue feat. Kylie Jenner sounds like the makings of a great Comic Relief single.
Kylie Jenner doesn't even need to be a good singer, autotune could do all the work for her but if its gets the "teenyboppers" interested then it might provide a certain other Kylie another hit.Maybe Madonna should try it. Kylie Jenner might be talentless but she has enough power in the US to maybe give Madonna her first number one on the Hot 100 chart for 15 years and maybe even her first top ten single on the UK singles chart for six years. It’s worth a shot. |
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It's totally spurious to compare record sales from 1997 - basically the pre-internet/download era - with now. Oasis didn't have to worry about millions downloading their albums for free. But I admit for a Beatles tribute band they had pretty impressive sales.
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An over-hyped band, much like the decade itself.
First they started out copying Beatles music. Then Status Quo, The Who and Led Zeplin. The last high flying birds single sounded like pure Dave Ghrohl. But at least Noel Gallagher has finally brought his music into the 90s. It'll be Coldplay next. |
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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 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. |
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