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Jarvig 
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 03:33 |
Hey all
I have a question. Does anybody have an alright list of how many albums different prog artists have sold?
Besides an actual interest in the subject, then I have a point.
Pink Floyd is clearly the most selling prog artist ever.
If we put aside prog-related and proto-prog subgenres and only look at "real" prog subgenres, then who comes close to the sales of Pink Floyd?
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Rush77
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 04:55 |
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Jethro Tull has sold over 60 million albums worldwide
Yes has over 30 million albums sold
Genesis has over 150 albums sold
Rush have over 40 million albums sold
and Pink Floyd has 200 millions albums sold so Genesis comes close
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 05:00 |
 Rush77 wrote:
Genesis has over 150 albums sold
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Nathaniel607
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 05:53 |
One to add...
The Moody Blues have sold over 70 million albums worldwide.
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 05:57 |
irrelevant wrote:
Rush77 wrote:
Genesis has over 150 albums sold
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millions?
Genesis is 2nd best :) Pink Floyd's first.
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Run Home Slow
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 07:09 |
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Genesis, right, but after Gabriel left they started making money, and that was not good :-)
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MAD
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 07:10 |
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Hoya!
Except that Genesis quit making Prog at the beginning of the 80s.
When it went Pop, the band sold far more than during their pure Prog period, which is not surprising considering that Prog is not easy-listening ;-)
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 07:41 |
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Genesis
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TLM170
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 08:24 |
MAD wrote:
Hoya!
Except that Genesis quit making Prog at the beginning of the 80s.
When it went Pop, the band sold far more than during their pure Prog period, which is not surprising considering that Prog is not easy-listening ;-)
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you can say the same about Yes!
someone knows king crimson sales?
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 08:27 |
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Rick Wakeman(Solo) sold about 50 Million albums
Edited by BlindGuard - February 25 2011 at 08:28
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 08:35 |
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Re: King Crimson, ITCOTKC went gold years after it was released. Their other albums don't even come close in sales.
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 09:46 |
BlindGuard wrote:
Rick Wakeman(Solo) sold about 50 Million albums |
That's wishful thinking if ever there was! Wakeman solo career combined with the Yes catalog didn't sell 50 million albums.
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 10:35 |
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How about ELP?
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 10:39 |
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Pink Floyd. Not counting the completely different band Genesis was in the 80s, with huge pop hits and all I'd say Yes might be the next closest selling (supposing we only count each's 60s-70s output for fairness.)
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 10:45 |
BlindGuard wrote:
Rick Wakeman(Solo) sold about 50 Million albums |
More or less ten copies sold for each of the million albums he has released. 
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Posted: February 25 2011 at 18:00 |
Queen and Led Zeppelin (prog related bands have sold between 200 and 300 million albums)
and like the above, Pink Floyd is not just an important prog band they are one of the leading bands in the rock scene, to me Floyd is not just a big prog band they are one of the great musical forces in histoiry of music, who can sitt in the same room as Elivs, Beatles, Michael Jackson and such proudly,
Edited by aginor - February 25 2011 at 18:00
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Curutchet
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Posted: February 26 2011 at 04:59 |
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I heard that Rick Wakeman's sales are closer to 80 million. No wonder, he released 100 albums (my uncle, who is a Yes fan, has atleast 5 Wakeman albums... so apparently, every Yes fan kept buying Wakeman albums, which explains the 80 mil), and The Six Wives of Henry VIII reached 15 millions sales.
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MAD
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Posted: February 26 2011 at 06:49 |
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@TLM170
Indeed! But, if I remember correctly, Genesis were more often in the charts when it turned Pop than Yes, at least in France.
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Posted: February 26 2011 at 08:27 |
Where are you getting your 'statistics' from?
Come on guys, cite your sources.
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Posted: February 26 2011 at 09:50 |
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The question is how many albums did genesis sell if you take out Duke, Abacab, Genesis, invisible touch, and we can't dance?
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