Sales Figures - Styx

[SuiteMadameBlue]

I don't know if all of you visit Andrew's main page, here are the sales figures from a few Styx albums. I added his notes that explains it. Thanks Andrew

SALES FIGURES - A RUN DOWN FROM THE USA:
Occasionally I get the chance to offer some feedback on CD Sales and see what titles have sold what. It's next to impossible to gauge worldwide sales numbers, but one organization does monitor US sales numbers and it is these numbers we are having a peak at today.
In the US, all official sales figures are tallied by a company called Nielsen Soundscan. The figures gathered by Sounscan come from reporting stores across the USA and are deemed reliable enough for Billboard to use as their official supplier for data for their charts, including the USA Top 200 Albums.
Before you read the figures - a few words of explanation. These figures are USA only, not worldwide numbers. Many titles are also available via different labels in Europe, those sales numbers are unknown.
A few side notes are placed next to some of the titles - please also take those notes into consideration.

Artist / Title / USA Sales To Date
Styx - Big Bang Theory - 42,855 (Still a recent release and selling) Cyclorama - 56,017 Brave New World - 73,428


Oh what the heck, here are the others he has listed. There's a couple bands I never even heard of, but it's still nice to compare the sales


Dokken - Hell To Pay - 15,739 Long Way Home - 21,141 Shadowlife - 51,140
Bon Jovi - Crush - 1,994,800 Bounce - 712,971 100 Million Fans Can't Be Wrong - 104,975 This Left Feels Right - 424,489 One Wild Night - Live 1985-2001 - 521,969
Van Halen - III - 513,921 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - 2,950,337 The Best Of Both Worlds - 568,170
Sammy Hagar - The Essential Red Collection - 91,423
David Lee Roth - Diamond Dave - 15,676
Iommi w/ Glenn Hughes - The DEP Sessions - 6,420
Iommi - Fused - 4,976 (Only just released)
W.A.S.P. - Neon God Part I - 17,014 Neon God Part 2 - 8438
MSG - Arachnophobiac - 6,213 Heavy Hitters - 567 (Just released)
Kevin Dubrow - In For The Kill - 981
Pretty Boy Floyd - Size Really Does Matter - 795
Twisted Sister - Still Hungry - 13,334
Bang Tango - Ready To Go - 1,615
Kansas - Somewhere to Elsewhere - 38,344
Bryan Adams - Room Service - 27,402
John Waite - The Hard Way - 5,721
L.A. Guns - Rips The Covers Off - 3,594
Dio - Master of the Moon - 25,777
Motley Crue - Red White & Crue - 399,741
Megadeth - The System Has Failed - 161,229
38 Special - Drivetrain - 13,341
Asia - Silent Nation - 5,558
Heart - Jupiter's Darling - 73,394
Brides Of Destruction - Here Come The Brides - 41,018
Gene Simmons - Asshole - 33,445
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will - 847,338
Velvet Revolver - Contraband - 1,783,565
Scorpions - Unbreakable - 36,139
Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny Of Souls - 16,385
Billy Idol - Devil's Playground - 81,225
Various Artists - VH1 Metal Mania Stripped - 57,576
Hall And Oates - Our Kind Of Soul - 105,516
Tsar - Tsar 5,109 Band Girls Money - 1,099 (Just released)
Frickin A - Big Egos...No Ideas - 8,703 (Jessie's Girl single - 17,622!)
Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal - 44,101

[ek88]

It's humbling to see some of those numbers, considering how many albums those artists sold in the past

[ek88]

Cyclorama - 56,017 Brave New World - 73,428

Using froy logic, he is correct in that only a little over 50,000 care about Carrot Styx. Then again, by the same logic, under 18,000 cared that Dennis left (or got kicked out).

[Hippie]

They seem to be holding their own vs. acts in the same vein. Classic Rock is simply not being pushed these days.

[DarrenUK]

Asia's last CD selling less than 6000, and compare that too their debut but you can say that all the 70s/80s bands have suffered with the exception of Bon Springsteen. I think if Steve Howe and Carl Palmer returned to Asia CD sales would still suck just as if other ex members returned to their original bands......how things change and it shows how radio and promotion means more than song quality as there are some great songs on the last Asia CD......The Prophet, Gone Too Far and Long Way From Home being just 3 of them.

[DarrenUK]

Asia's last CD selling less than 6000, and compare that too their debut but you can say that all the 70s/80s bands have suffered with the exception of Bon Springsteen. I think if Steve Howe and Carl Palmer returned to Asia CD sales would still suck just as if other ex members returned to their original bands......how things change and it shows how radio and promotion means more than song quality as there are some great songs on the last Asia CD......The Prophet, Gone Too Far and Long Way From Home being just 3 of them.

[Soloud]

how things change and it shows how radio and promotion means more than song quality......

Man that is so true. Although, the recent GnR Greatest Hits sold over 1 million and none of that was due to promotion. Same old songs that people loved and I guess the timing was right.

[ek88]

Speaking of GNR, I wonder how many former GNR fans contributed to Velvet Revolver sales!