A Mark In Time
Previous Albums => Get Lucky (2009) => Topic started by: sweetsurrender on December 06, 2009, 12:01:20 AM
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Does anyone have an official numbers for the sale of GL cds, deluxe set, digipack and all? I'm curious to find out. I heard that it's doing pretty good.
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Yes, I was asking that myself, too! I found out that GL was in the "top 30" of the amazon sales here in Germany far longer than any other MK album before. And even if it left the top ten very soon, it was around place 20 until two weeks ago... Today it is on Nr. 41, so falling down, but that took a long time. So it must have sold pretty well. But how can we get exact figures?
LE
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I don't know about numbers like this. Get Lucky is out of the album chart (top 40) now, but tonight on national TV there were a couple of advertisements for Get Lucky. For the first time Get Lucky got advertised as far as I know. So I guess the sales are going up a little more now.
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It was on Dutch television in the same week of the release for the first time.
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Difficult question.
Most important countries are here: USA,UK,Germany,France,Canada,AUS and Spain I think.
In Germany GL is climbing again. From 37 to 32 to 29 this week.
He should reach here Gold Status easily. I think about 75.000 copies are realistic.
USA number 17. Sailing reached Gold. GL perhaps nearly. So maybe about 400.000 copies?
What about the others countries???
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has anyone asked guy or pcm??
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I think Guy will never answer this, apart from he probably will also not know it at all. But PCM could be a good choice...
LE
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I have asked Universal in The Netherlands and first I don't have the exact number, because they say it is classified information (?)
The my next question to them was if the record will become platinum or gold. And the answer was: We are going towards a golden plate now! So thats almost 25,000 copies in The Netherlands.
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In Germany I found out:
STP Platinum
RPD Gold
SL Gold
ATRR Gold
GL Gold
ATRR DVD Gold 25.000 copies
GH and KTGC: nothing (very strange)
Platinum is 200.000
Gold 100.000 copies.
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Today, Google Alert ;) told me that MK got an Gold Record Award presented by Universal in Berlin a few days ago. The article said that since September 2009, more than 150.000 albums of Get Lucky had been sold. So here we have an "official" figure. Interesting. That is not very much in my opinion...
Here is the link to the (German) article:
http://www.mediabiz.de/musik/news/universal-music-verleiht-gold-an-mark-knopfler/291497 (http://www.mediabiz.de/musik/news/universal-music-verleiht-gold-an-mark-knopfler/291497)
LE
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Today, Google Alert ;) told me that MK got an Gold Record Award presented by Universal in Berlin a few days ago. The article said that since September 2009, more than 150.000 albums of Get Lucky had been sold. So here we have an "official" figure. Interesting. That is not very much in my opinion...
Here is the link to the (German) article:
http://www.mediabiz.de/musik/news/universal-music-verleiht-gold-an-mark-knopfler/291497 (http://www.mediabiz.de/musik/news/universal-music-verleiht-gold-an-mark-knopfler/291497)
LE
Is that the number sold in Germany or worldwide sales though? 150,000 wouldn't be very many worldwide IMO either.
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No, in Germany as I understood it.
LE
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150.000 in Germany is nowadays pretty much.
That's between Gold and Platinum.
After all the concerts it will sell more I think.
To reach platinum is not easy anymore.
Thanks to all downloaders...
:disbelief
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Well, setlist-wise MK did really EVERYTHING to sell more copies of GL after this tour, didn't he... :disbelief
However, I think he doesn't give a damn about gold or platinum or whatever.
LE
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to me 6
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150.000 in Germany is nowadays pretty much.
That's between Gold and Platinum.
After all the concerts it will sell more I think.
To reach platinum is not easy anymore.
Thanks to all downloaders...
:disbelief
Funny remarks when you know how the records companies has been proactive to use the newest technologies and to adapt their marketing process, for years nearly killing all attemp to legaly distribute their music a different way until they had no other survival choice to stick with apple itune economic model.
If people have been used to dowload for free it is also because for too long this industry has refused to sell music in attractive dematerialised format while the free illegal offer was just growing and growing.
Instead the record industry have spend 10 years fighting to make things just remain as they were used to be in a world that is not the same anymore, and thus ended 10 years late and failed.
We are now able to legaly buy nearly all of the european show but how? Just by downloading them and the company that sell them is not the usual record company. Next step will be to get them in lossless quality