Jimmy's Best Selling...

Pascagoula Runner · Post by **Pascagoula Runner** » May 6, 2004 4:42 pm

SYKBH and BBBB aside, does anyone know Jimmy's top five best selling albums in order?

It would be a bonus if you knew the #'s as well. Thanks!

phenwayparrothead · Post by **phenwayparrothead** » May 6, 2004 5:26 pm

feedingfrenzy
fruitcakes
christmas island
son of a son of a sailor
changes in latitudes

Ilph · Post by **Ilph** » May 6, 2004 5:52 pm

Where did you get that list from?

phenwayparrothead · Post by **phenwayparrothead** » May 6, 2004 7:32 pm

i just know these things

jonahjones · Post by **jonahjones** » May 6, 2004 7:55 pm

Are all the ticket's $84.00 no matter where the seats are situated?If you are lucky enough to get through to ticketmaster will you have a choice of seats or BEST AVAILABLE?One more thing.What's with the $84. dollar price tag?What's the concerts going to gross?(Just ticket sales)7-9 million perhaps?How much money does a person need?

cartmill72 · Post by **cartmill72** » May 6, 2004 10:29 pm

Here you go....

The top 3:
1. SYKBH - Multi-platinum (6 million)
2. Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads - Multi-platinum (4 million)
3. Meet Me In Margartiaville - Multi-platinum (2 million)

The next 5 (in chronological order of million-selling certification):
CILCIA - Platinum 12/14/77
SOASOAS - Platinum 5/10/78
Fruitcakes - Platinum 12/19/94
Banana Wind - Platinum 8/10/98
Christmas Island - Platinum 5/30/00

The gold albums are:
You Had To Be There
Volcano
Feeding Frenzy
Barometer Soup
Don't Stop The Carnival
Beach House On The Moon
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays

So, that makes 15 gold (500,000 units shipped), 8 platinum (1 million units shipped) and 3 multi-platinum.

He is among the top selling artists of all-time with more than 20 million albums shipped.

Songs You Know By Heart is among the Top 100 albums of all-time with 6 million units shipped.

kokiril33t · Post by **kokiril33t** » May 6, 2004 10:45 pm

cartmill72 wrote:Here you go....

The top 3:
1. SYKBH - Multi-platinum (6 million)
2. Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads - Multi-platinum (4 million)
3. Meet Me In Margartiaville - Multi-platinum (2 million)

The next 5 (in chronological order of million-selling certification):
CILCIA - Platinum 12/14/77
SOASOAS - Platinum 5/10/78
Fruitcakes - Platinum 12/19/94
Banana Wind - Platinum 8/10/98
Christmas Island - Platinum 5/30/00

The gold albums are:
You Had To Be There
Volcano
Feeding Frenzy
Barometer Soup
Don't Stop The Carnival
Beach House On The Moon
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays

So, that makes 15 gold (500,000 units shipped), 8 platinum (1 million units shipped) and 3 multi-platinum.

He is among the top selling artists of all-time with more than 20 million albums shipped.

Songs You Know By Heart is among the Top 100 albums of all-time with 6 million units shipped.

.......I'm impressed...

cartmill72 · Post by **cartmill72** » May 6, 2004 10:50 pm

kokiril33t wrote: .......I'm impressed...

I'm glad someone is. My wife thinks I'm crazy.

Oh, and by the way, Margaritaville is among the top 75 played songs of all time.

http://homepage.mac.com/scartmill/iblog ... index.html

It's been played more than 4 million times.

parrothead338 · Post by **parrothead338** » May 6, 2004 10:56 pm

cartmill72 wrote:
kokiril33t wrote: .......I'm impressed...
I'm glad someone is. My wife thinks I'm crazy.

Oh, and by the way, Margaritaville is among the top 75 played songs of all time.

http://homepage.mac.com/scartmill/iblog ... index.html

It's been played more than 4 million times.

Interesting!

cartmill72 · Post by **cartmill72** » May 7, 2004 8:56 am

parrothead338 wrote:
cartmill72 wrote:
kokiril33t wrote: .......I'm impressed...
I'm glad someone is. My wife thinks I'm crazy.

Oh, and by the way, Margaritaville is among the top 75 played songs of all time.

http://homepage.mac.com/scartmill/iblog ... index.html

It's been played more than 4 million times.
Interesting!

I knew this "useless" trivia would come in handy some day.

Mplsfins · Post by **Mplsfins** » May 7, 2004 9:05 am

I wonder how many more albums he has sold since they were first certified? I am sure it is probably double what it shows. Artists tend not to get them recertified due to the fact that additional royalties would have to be paid out.

cartmill72 · Post by **cartmill72** » May 7, 2004 9:22 am

Mplsfins wrote:I wonder how many more albums he has sold since they were first certified? I am sure it is probably double what it shows. Artists tend not to get them recertified due to the fact that additional royalties would have to be paid out.

That's very true. And I'm also curious about the certification process for songs sold through iTunes and Napster or mailboatrecords.com.

I haven't checked on this lately, but there was a flap when iTunes first started reporting sales totals that the RIAA (or the individual labels) were counting the sales as singles only. So let's say you bought "Live In Cincinnati" - it didn't count as an album sale, but rather 28 singles sold. Meanwhile, Apple continued to tout a certain % of all purchases via iTunes were full albums. Very confusing and contradicting.

I've never been one to trust the RIAA. So I don't put a lot of faith in their numbers. Unfortunately, I've never seen a public database for SoundScan which I think would be more accurate.

PA PAR8 HED · Post by **PA PAR8 HED** » May 7, 2004 10:43 am

cartmill72 wrote:
kokiril33t wrote: .

Oh, and by the way, Margaritaville is among the top 75 played songs of all time.

http://homepage.mac.com/scartmill/iblog ... index.html

It's been played more than 4 million times.

And that 4 million times is just at my house!!

cartmill72 · Post by **cartmill72** » May 7, 2004 11:01 am

PA PAR8 HED wrote:
cartmill72 wrote:
kokiril33t wrote: .

Oh, and by the way, Margaritaville is among the top 75 played songs of all time.

http://homepage.mac.com/scartmill/iblog ... index.html

It's been played more than 4 million times.
And that 4 million times is just at my house!!

Now that's funny.

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