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Originally Posted by PinnacleProdUK  In the current state of the music industry and the lack of cd sales compared to years back, Do you think the current records for album sales like for instance thriller MJ or the records the Beatles currently hold will ever be topped, I mean actual sales have dropped drastically for everybody over the last 10 or so years.
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it's debatable no one knows what's going to happen. there are plenty of artists that have sold 25 million that you'd look back and laugh at
List of best-selling albums worldwide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spice Girls? Linkin Park? Backstreet Boys?Oasis?Hootie? some pretty cheezy stuff. It will be done again. Labels just have to start signing bands that can actually write a complete record worth of great stuff. They're out there. Labels are just signing trendy 1 hit bands now. They need to take some chances and sign some different bands and see where it goes. Until then it will be same old same old and sales will suffer. People download the 1 hit and that's all.
Think about the Back Street Boys Millennium' selling 40 million? That is more than Zep 4? It's pretty unbelievable when you think about it. Not that Zep is better than the BSBs but that zep 4 was available for 30 years before? Maybe they just didn't have accurate sales analysis back then. Everyone I've ever met has that record. Not to mention we all had it on LP, 8track and then bought it on CD and then again on CD when they remastered it.
If Céline and Britney Spears can sell 20+ it will happen again but with someone actually good. Maybe the mp3
just killed everything? The ability to buy just the 'hit' maybe ended the 'record' sales as we knew it.