Guess what? A couple of albums at 15 million or 50 years of albums over 1 million is still less significant than the impressive total of ,8 million equivalent album sales David Bowie amassed over his legendary career.
Following pages list the most successful songs of the artist. Do not forget to check our amazing lists posted inside the CSPC: Data Collector which includes the full listing of all CSPC results compiled so far to better gauge her position in the history of the music industry. Learn how your comment data is processed. Just noticed that a number of Bowie songs have recently been been greyed out on spotify and their totals no longer show on the spotify tool report.
Also for some reason the songs credited to Bowie and the Spider on the Bowie at the Beeb album have a separate artist id?? Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Speed of Life. It seems to be an inexact science. California Couple , Oct 25, Location: London UK. There are various reports that David Bowie has sold between and million albums worldwide, with Let's Dance by far the biggest seller 7.
Dhreview16 , Oct 25, Ethan B and e. Location: My lab. This has been written about many times - Robert Palmer's old BBC doc series on rock music talks about Ziggy 's massive success in the UK while charting very low in the US at the time of its release.
Like the Ramones or the VU's debut, it eventually went gold decades later largely thanks to their growing critical stature. Also Jeff Rougvie alluded to this - looking at RCA's projections on what they expected to earn in future CD sales, he realized they had seriously undervalued Bowie's catalog.
It's probably because the accountants at RCA didn't realize and didn't factor in how much Bowie's seminal 70s work had also grown in stature as well. C6H12O6 , Oct 25, Location: Virginia.
Location: Grantham, NH. Bowie's catalog sells every year. Day in, day out. Not every title, but a good cross section of it. And I'd be willing to bet that audits would find sales, err, underreported Location: Dutch mountains. Location: The ATX. How current are those certifications? Anyway, it does not surprise me that Bowie was not a big seller in the US. He wore a dress after all. View Wishlist. Cart 0. Nearly , David Bowie records have been sold since his death.
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