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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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 04:55
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 05:00
Originally posted by Rush77 Rush77 wrote:


Genesis has over 150 albums sold
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 05:53
One to add...

The Moody Blues have sold over 70 million albums worldwide.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 05:57
Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by Rush77 Rush77 wrote:


Genesis has over 150 albums sold

millions?

Genesis is 2nd best :) 
Pink Floyd's first. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 07:09
Genesis, right, but after Gabriel left they started making money, and that was not good  :-)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 07:10
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 07:41
Genesis
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 08:24
Originally posted by MAD 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 08:27
Rick Wakeman(Solo) sold about 50 Million albums

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 08:35
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 09:46
Originally posted by BlindGuard 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 10:35
How about ELP?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 10:39
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2011 at 10:45
Originally posted by BlindGuard 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. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post 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,


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 04:59
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 06:49
@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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 08:27
Where are you getting your 'statistics' from?
 
Come on guys, cite your sources.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2011 at 09:50
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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