It's pretty easy for me to find figures on the total record sales for The Beatles. Is there a place that lists what the total sales are for each member after they went solo? It would be cool to find breakdowns for singles and albums, but I will settle for a grand total for each ex-Beatle.
Does anyone know of such a place? Thank you!
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
The Record Industry Assoc. of America (US sales only - in millions)
Paul McCartney 14.5 John Lennon 13.5 George Harrison 10.5 Ringo Starr Unlisted
My first impression of this is that I'm suprised that McCartney has only sold 14.5 million in the US. I'm also a little suprised that the totals are so close given Paul's output and longevity.
The figures are for album sales only. Shame Ringo is unlisted, but I imagine it's not more than 3 or 4 million.
Now, see, I was looking at RIAA-- why couldn't I find it? *smacks head* Thanks for finding that.
That said -- I would have expected Paul to be way ahead also. Perhaps he is worldwide. Also, is the US such a huge market as to offset all the international sales, especially UK? I would think the actual solo numbers would be at least double this...
But thanks! At least I'm crawling forward. (I don't know why I like statistics, I just do.) Cheers!
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
Okay, we need to get the stats on the other 3. But where?
All I have so far is a few totals by album:
John: old data from the 80s! 6 million for Double Fantasy .5 million for the previous 2 combined
George: old data from 2002, per Rolling Stone 6 million for ATMP .5 million for BanglaDesh .5 million for Brainwashed
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
[...]Capitol's initial pressing of Rock 'N' Roll was 2,444 LPs and 500 eight-track tapes, but after its first month in the stores only 1,270 LPs and 175 eight-track tapes had actually been purchased. In 1985, ten years after its release, Rock 'N' Roll ranked as the second-worst-selling music album by John Lennon, just ahead of Sometime In New York City, John and Yoko's strongly political LP, which by then had sold less than 175,000 copies in the United States.[...]
Thanks, Raxo! I read 350,000 -- I think for his first two, Plastic Ono Band and Imagine (I'll have to go back and check). So that was a real dropoff.
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
Thanks, Raxo! I read 350,000 -- I think for his first two, Plastic Ono Band and Imagine (I'll have to go back and check). So that was a real dropoff.
Acchording to Peter Brown and Steven Gaines' book (The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of ...) Sometime In New York City sold 164,000 and Imagine 1,553,000 ... and the book is from 1983.
Ad about Paul:
"Wednesday October 24, 1979
At a party at the Les Ambassadors Club in Hamilton Place, London, Paul is awarded a rhodium-plated disc by the Guinness Book Of Records, recognising his record-breaking achievements in song writing and record sales and named the Most Honoured Man In Music. (The Rhodium disc is made of a metal much shinier than Platinum and twice as expensive. Paul's disc is actually worth an incredible £345 an ounce! Amazingly enough, the Guinness Book people were going to present to Paul a special disc made from Osmium, one of the world's densest metals. That was until they realised, just in time, that it was highly poisonous!) Paul collects the less-harmful award from Norman St. John Stevas, the Minister for the Arts. He is now included in the Guinness Book of Records book as the most successful composer and recording artist of all time, his awards including 43 million sellers, 60 gold records and more total worldwide record sales than any other artist.[...]"
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I would have expected Paul to be way ahead also. Perhaps he is worldwide. Also, is the US such a huge market as to offset all the international sales, especially UK? I would think the actual solo numbers would be at least double this...
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