Pet Shop Boys Record Sales

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Blogo · #1 Post by **Blogo** » Mon 02 Jul 2007, 10:27 pm

Jus wondering,
How many records (Albums and Singles) have the Pet Shop BOys sold?

Just out of interest:)

Dog · #2 Post by **Dog** » Mon 02 Jul 2007, 10:41 pm

I have seven.

Very · #3 Post by **Very** » Mon 02 Jul 2007, 11:04 pm

Millions!

TheGardner · #4 Post by **TheGardner** » Mon 02 Jul 2007, 11:29 pm

last count I've heard was somethings over 35 Millions. But I'm not really sure if that means all (Albums, Singles...)

Shopper · #5 Post by **Shopper** » Tue 03 Jul 2007, 8:33 am

ah..another one. we must pin this topic ! but more imp, im surprised we dont have clearly accurate figures

Blogo · #6 Post by **Blogo** » Tue 03 Jul 2007, 11:00 am

last count I've heard was somethings over 35 Millions. But I'm not really sure if that means all (Albums, Singles...)

Yeah I heard they sold near 40 million Albums....

joshua76it · #7 Post by **joshua76it** » Tue 03 Jul 2007, 12:16 pm

I know for sure they sold more records than the Beatles, and this was known years ago already

Danger · #8 Post by **Danger** » Tue 03 Jul 2007, 2:52 pm

Paddymacall wrote:
last count I've heard was somethings over 35 Millions. But I'm not really sure if that means all (Albums, Singles...)
Yeah I heard they sold near 40 million Albums....

I've heard the same, even if an italian fan site says almost 50 million until Pop Art and without Disco3. Look here: http://digilander.libero.it/petshopboys/numbers.htm

homer1972 · #9 Post by **homer1972** » Tue 03 Jul 2007, 8:41 pm

joshua76it wrote:I know for sure they sold more records than the Beatles, and this was known years ago already

The Beatles’ worldwide sales total stand at 545 million units approx, PSB would be lucky to have sold 1/10th of those units.

weirdalfan1980 · #10 Post by **weirdalfan1980** » Tue 03 Jul 2007, 9:14 pm

I hear 28 Million, but not let us confuse with US or UK or Eurpoean or worldwide sales

Hillbilly · #11 Post by **Hillbilly** » Wed 04 Jul 2007, 9:54 am

joshua76it wrote:I know for sure they sold more records than the Beatles, and this was known years ago already

So they said about ABBA too, but I don't believe it. Especially not after having read this about the Bee Gees:

"Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees".

Why not take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_selling_music_artists

NJTom · #12 Post by **NJTom** » Thu 05 Jul 2007, 12:26 am

Whenever you read anything in the music press about worldwide record sales, they are usually pulling a number out of their arse .. or their agents arse .... theyre usually inflated to almost double.

An example, Tubular Bells ... everytime I see stats in the press for this they quote something around 16 million units (circa 2000) .. yet in an interview Mike Oldfield stated that he hired an agency to exactly track the exact sales (presumably to see if Virgin were screwing him) and they came up with about 9 million.