Hot Rocks is back on the Billboard 200 again.
The album is charting in the US by 3rd consecutive year, it peaked at #18 on 2013 and #105 in 2014.
[www.billboard.com]

Hot Rocks on the Billboard 200 in 2015:

17/01/2015: #166
24/01/2015: #167
25/04/2015: #195
02/05/2015: #194
16/05/2015: #149
23/05/2015: #197
06/06/2015: #179
13/06/2015: #130
20/06/2015: #128
27/06/2015: #186
11/07/2015: #195
18/07/2015: #197
25/07/2015: #194
01/08/2015: #195



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Link doesn't seem to work George.

Hi Georgelicks, at 166, how many copies did it sell? How many at #13?

I think this link is working: [www.billboard.com]

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Link doesn't seem to work George.

Sorry, here is the correct:

[www.billboard.com]

Anyway, here the full top 200:

Billboard 200
January 17, 2015
Week ending Jan. 4, 2015

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 1 1 10 #1 8 wks 1989, Taylor Swift 1
2 2 2 3 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 2
3 7 8 28 x, Ed Sheeran 1
4 5 6 29 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
5 9 16 23 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
6 8 14 13 Hozier, Hozier 2
7 6 4 4 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
8 19 27 3 Into The Woods, Soundtrack 8
9 4 7 7 FOUR, One Direction 1
10 10 20 19 My Everything, Ariana Grande 1
11 11 19 58 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
12 29 63 6 Annie, Soundtrack 12
13 27 32 73 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
14 15 24 18 V, Maroon 5 1
15 16 12 4 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
16 67 92 6 GG Reclassified, Iggy Azalea 16
17 14 18 13 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
18 23 21 10 NOW 52, Various Artists 2
19 32 47 10 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
20 12 – 2 The Young OG Project, Fabolous 12
21 24 35 17 Title (EP), Meghan Trainor 15
22 18 13 3 LIVESOS, 5 Seconds Of Summer 13
23 20 25 12 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
24 28 43 8 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas 6
25 47 68 93 Native, OneRepublic 4
26 42 67 6 Globalization, Pitbull 18
27 34 50 7 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I, Soundtrack 18
28 41 66 122 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
29 44 81 17 Dream Your Life Away, Vance Joy 17
30 35 49 56 Beyonce, Beyonce 1
31 39 52 6 For You, Selena Gomez 24
32 25 5 3 Black Messiah, D'Angelo And The Vanguard 5
33 17 10 5 Rock Or Bust, AC/DC 3
34 45 115 36 Talk Dirty, Jason Derulo 4
35 77 97 9 Motion, Calvin Harris 5
36 63 73 47 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
37 59 82 66 Pure Heroine, Lorde 3
38 36 53 24 5 Seconds Of Summer, 5 Seconds Of Summer 1
39 51 54 6 ShadyXV, Various Artists 3
40 26 70 69 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
41 46 36 7 No Fixed Address, Nickelback 4
42 65 103 62 PRISM, Katy Perry 1
43 81 142 70 Bad Blood, Bastille 11
44 13 9 8 Man Against Machine, Garth Brooks 4
45 43 29 4 Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart?, K. Michelle 6
46 54 77 16 X, Chris Brown 2
47 149 144 6 Listen, David Guetta 22
48 48 44 14 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
49 3 3 11 That's Christmas To Me, Pentatonix 2
50 55 76 109 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 4
51 60 153 222 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
52 62 125 20 Blacc Hollywood, Wiz Khalifa 1
53 33 31 8 Sonic Highways (Soundtrack), Foo Fighters 2
54 96 – 4 Prayer, Robin Schulz 54
55 56 124 89 Save Rock And Roll, Fall Out Boy 1
56 68 28 3 Sucker, Charli XCX 28
57 118 133 11 Sadnecessary, Milky Chance 17
58 91 183 25 These Things Happen, G-Eazy 3
59 50 46 5 The London Sessions, Mary J. Blige 9
60 109 139 68 Love In The Future, John Legend 4
61 80 131 14 Queen Of The Clouds, Tove Lo 14
62 70 86 125 +, Ed Sheeran 5
63 89 94 33 Ghost Stories, Coldplay 1
64 108 106 5 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 26
65 69 72 8 Lost On The River, The New Basement Tapes 23
66 22 15 16 Partners, Barbra Streisand 1
67 124 151 42 G I R L, Pharrell Williams 2
68 53 60 16 Sundown Heaven Town, Tim McGraw 3
69 90 121 90 Red, Taylor Swift 1
70 82 165 57 Midnight Memories, One Direction 1
71 71 100 153 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
72 83 148 3 I LOVE MAKONNEN (EP), I LOVE MAKONNEN 72
73 113 162 159 Back In Black, AC/DC 4
74 74 145 61 The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem 1
75 64 45 10 Sweet Talker, Jessie J 10
76 88 120 345 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
77 104 112 11 Paperwork, T.I. 2
78 73 74 8 Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 20
79 100 – 231 Thriller, Michael Jackson 1
80 38 30 8 The Endless River, Pink Floyd 3
81 94 146 337 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 10
82 78 89 33 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
83 87 109 29 Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey 1
84 110 113 66 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 14
85 86 135 56 The 1975, The 1975 28
86 79 – 61 The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance 2
87 177 – 15 Don't Kill The Magic, MAGIC! 6
88 121 174 64 Nothing Was The Same, Drake 1
89 85 123 17 I Dont Dance, Lee Brice 5
90 84 127 27 Trigga, Trey Songz 1
91 99 – 29 Vessel, Twenty One Pilots 58
92 31 22 15 Cheek To Cheek, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga 1
93 127 107 6 Hood Billionaire, Rick Ross 6
94 143 – 23 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
95 66 65 31 Platinum, Miranda Lambert 1
96 57 57 15 The Big Revival, Kenny Chesney 2
97 49 37 16 The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium, George Strait 4
98 126 160 114 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
99 128 – 255 Greatest Hits, Queen 11
100 115 108 15 This Is All Yours, alt-J 4
101 40 23 14 Frozen: The Songs, Soundtrack 16
102 116 200 53 Because The Internet, Childish Gambino 7
103 107 114 93 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 3
104 114 38 3 Luca Brasi 2: A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition, Kevin Gates 38
105 123 – 106 American Idiot, Green Day 1
106 117 – 8 Under Pressure, Logic 4
107 132 159 44 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell 3
108 97 101 279 Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin 2
109 105 102 101 Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars 1
110 133 172 207 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3
111 98 96 11 .5: The Gray Chapter, Slipknot 1
112 186 – 4 Black Star Elephant, Nico & Vinz 45
113 146 – 37 Oxymoron, ScHoolboy Q 1
114 72 80 15 PTX: Vol. III (EP), Pentatonix 5
115 112 128 199 The Legend Of Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash 5
116 140 140 202 21, Adele 1
117 0 Re-Entry 24 The Essential Billy Joel, Billy Joel 15
118 139 – 68 A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, Panic! At The Disco 13
119 92 78 14 747, Lady Antebellum 2
120 120 171 196 Number Ones, Michael Jackson 13
121 164 – 297 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 3
122 153 – 58 An Awesome Wave, alt-J 80
123 144 179 42 Riser, Dierks Bentley 6
124 136 – 4 Shmurda She Wrote (EP), Bobby Shmurda 79
125 134 – 20 All-Time Greatest Hits, Neil Diamond 15
126 161 – 17 Lost In The Dream, The War On Drugs 26
127 129 197 18 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
128 76 40 9 It's The Girls!, Bette Midler 3
129 58 33 38 Disney Karaoke Series: Frozen (EP), Various Artists 17
130 151 – 71 Paramore, Paramore 1
131 130 – 24 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1, Nickelback 21
132 196 – 63 Greatest Hits, Bon Jovi 5
133 165 – 33 Testimony, August Alsina 2
134 163 158 30 PS Turn Blue, The Black Keys 1
135 142 111 11 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
136 171 – 44 Trilogy, The Weeknd 4
137 154 195 185 1, The Beatles 1
138 194 – 96 Take Care, Drake 1
139 179 – 189 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 1
140 185 – 11 The Very Best Of, Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons 33
141 152 194 80 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 11
142 0 Re-Entry 3 Game Changer, Johnny Gill 56
143 166 – 8 Melophobia, Cage The Elephant 15
144 0 Re-Entry 35 Sex And Love, Enrique Iglesias 8
145 141 – 39 Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!, Panic! At The Disco 2
146 162 – 48 The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1, Five Finger Death Punch 2
147 131 132 17 Anomaly, Lecrae 1
148 0 Re-Entry 9 Bring You Back, Brett Eldredge 11
149 0 Re-Entry 47 Bangerz, Miley Cyrus 1
150 180 191 893 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 1
151 157 – 171 Recovery, Eminem 1
152 0 Re-Entry 192 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 1
153 37 141 37 The New Classic, Iggy Azalea 3
154 0 Re-Entry 7 The Very Best Of... Sting & The Police, Sting & The Police 46
155 176 – 15 Talking Dreams, Echosmith 109
156 95 56 14 WOW Hits 2015, Various Artists 23
157 173 – 60 Greatest Hits, Red Hot Chili Peppers 18
158 195 – 102 Up All Night, One Direction 1
159 0 Re-Entry 35 It Goes Like This, Thomas Rhett 6
160 0 Re-Entry 10 Gypsy Heart, Colbie Caillat 17
161 160 – 224 Fearless, Taylor Swift 1
162 190 – 70 Take Me Home, One Direction 1
163 170 – 284 Nevermind, Nirvana 1
164 184 – 196 The Eminem Show, Eminem 1
165 0 Re-Entry 10 Strange Desire, Bleachers 11
166 0 Re-Entry 246 Hot Rocks 1964-1971, The Rolling Stones 4
167 0 Re-Entry 49 The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2), Justin Timberlake 1
168 0 Re-Entry 75 Halcyon, Ellie Goulding 9
169 198 – 330 Metallica, Metallica 1
170 0 Re-Entry 18 A.M., Chris Young 3
171 150 83 3 The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, Soundtrack 83
172 0 Re-Entry 45 Global Warming, Pitbull 14
173 0 Re-Entry 29 Lunatic, KONGOS 39
174 183 – 8 The Shawn Mendes EP, Shawn Mendes 5
175 119 87 25 Kidz Bop 26, Kidz Bop Kids 4
176 0 Re-Entry 79 RIOT!, Paramore 15
177 0 Re-Entry 94 Greatest Hits... So Far!!!, P!nk 5
178 0 Re-Entry 19 Settle, Disclosure 36
179 0 Re-Entry 70 Rocket Man: Number Ones, Elton John 9
180 0 Re-Entry 31 Sinatra: Best Of The Best, Frank Sinatra 23
181 191 – 3 Meet The Vamps, The Vamps 40
182 159 149 142 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton 1
183 0 Re-Entry 193 Greatest Hits, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 5
184 0 Re-Entry 31 Greatest Hits, Al Green 127
185 0 Re-Entry 23 The Fault In Our Stars, Soundtrack 5
186 0 Re-Entry 40 TRUE, Avicii 5
187 0 Re-Entry 87 The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 2
188 125 71 48 Thrive, Casting Crowns 6
189 0 Re-Entry 8 Goddess, Banks 12
190 0 Re-Entry 130 Songs About Jane, Maroon 5 6
191 0 Re-Entry 49 Demi, Demi Lovato 3
192 155 190 173 Tailgates & Tanlines, Luke Bryan 2
193 0 Re-Entry 8 Metamodern Sounds In Country Music, Sturgill Simpson 59
194 0 Re-Entry 5 People Keep Talking, Hoodie Allen 8
195 0 Re-Entry 100 Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack 3
196 0 Re-Entry 209 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 22
197 122 91 22 NOW 51, Various Artists 2
198 0 Re-Entry 36 Days Of Gold, Jake Owen 15
199 0 Re-Entry 127 Speak Now, Taylor Swift 1
200 0 Re-Entry 50 Juke Box Heroes, Foreigner 108



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Some interesting titles in that list - and no U2.

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Hi Georgelicks, at 166, how many copies did it sell? How many at #13?

I don't have the full numbers, but here an example:

#1 Taylor Swift (244,000)
#2 Nicki Minaj (59,000)
#16 Iggy Azalea (29,000)
#30 Beyonce (18,000)
#33 AC/DC (17,000)
#51 Eminem (12,000)
#96 Kenny Chesney (8,000)
#111 Slipknot (7,000)

Hot Rocks must be around 4,000 or 5,000 copies.

I enjoyed it when Love you live made the billboard:



For the Rolling Stones collectors that have to have everyrhing, where would you put this?

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Hi Georgelicks, at 166, how many copies did it sell? How many at #13?

I don't have the full numbers, but here an example:

#1 Taylor Swift (244,000)
#2 Nicki Minaj (59,000)
#16 Iggy Azalea (29,000)
#30 Beyonce (18,000)
#33 AC/DC (17,000)
#51 Eminem (12,000)
#96 Kenny Chesney (8,000)
#111 Slipknot (7,000)

Hot Rocks must be around 4,000 or 5,000 copies.

damn those are low numbers...and that includes downloads?

wow, and no U2 anywhere, as skippy noted.

Yep, it includes downloads (maybe 70-80% of the Hot Rocks sales are from Itunes)

The numbers out now would likely be reflecting the end of 2014. No doubt a few thousand people gifted it for Christmas, and if they are mostly downloads then it would be Boomers passing the baton to their grandkids. There is no other reason for the sudden appearance of their most famous best-of collection to me making a sudden reappearance on the charts when they haven't played the U.S. in a year and a half. But a holiday season would make sense for the sudden spike in sales.

iTunes is the reason, the album is listed at $7.99 by two weeks now and is inside the top 100 there since then, that's $0,38 by song, not a bad deal at all.

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DGA35
Hi Georgelicks, at 166, how many copies did it sell? How many at #13?

I don't have the full numbers, but here an example:

#1 Taylor Swift (244,000)
#2 Nicki Minaj (59,000)
#16 Iggy Azalea (29,000)
#30 Beyonce (18,000)
#33 AC/DC (17,000)
#51 Eminem (12,000)
#96 Kenny Chesney (8,000)
#111 Slipknot (7,000)

Hot Rocks must be around 4,000 or 5,000 copies.

damn those are low numbers...and that includes downloads?

wow, and no U2 anywhere, as skippy noted.

From what I've been reading lately downloading has been on its way out as a majority way of consuming music. Streaming services have grown incredibly. Which makes sense since youtube can be used for playing specific songs and Pandora can play things that sound like and so on.

There will be another shift at some point I think - back to quality. Don't count the CD out yet.

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DGA35
Hi Georgelicks, at 166, how many copies did it sell? How many at #13?

I don't have the full numbers, but here an example:

#1 Taylor Swift (244,000)
#2 Nicki Minaj (59,000)
#16 Iggy Azalea (29,000)
#30 Beyonce (18,000)
#33 AC/DC (17,000)
#51 Eminem (12,000)
#96 Kenny Chesney (8,000)
#111 Slipknot (7,000)

Hot Rocks must be around 4,000 or 5,000 copies.

damn those are low numbers...and that includes downloads?

wow, and no U2 anywhere, as skippy noted.

From what I've been reading lately downloading has been on its way out as a majority way of consuming music. Streaming services have grown incredibly. Which makes sense since youtube can be used for playing specific songs and Pandora can play things that sound like and so on.

There will be another shift at some point I think - back to quality. Don't count the CD out yet.

The CD Record, or the Compact Disc?

The CD record... CD album... the digital hard copy long player... the compact disc... the variable speed sound maker...

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The CD record... CD album... the digital hard copy long player... the compact disc... the variable speed sound maker...

I for one hope CD's go the way of 78 rpm vinyl. At least the traditional 16 bit 44.1K Red Book standard ones. Blu-Ray disks sound great but the navigation is cumbersome.

I imagine the record companies are dying to find a new in-hand format that will encourage us all to go out and re-purchase all our favorite music again like we did when CD's were introduced. Most streaming sounds like crap to me.

peace

I recall years ago when DVD came out that Capitol Records was going to reissue Garth Brooks' entire catalog... on DVD, with access to the album, extra tracks, images and videos.

That never happened. But it's possible to do that now with Blu-ray. From what I understand one Blu-ray can hold essentially a box set's worth of music on it.

However, it seems pointless due to online technology for storage, streaming, etc and besides, if you scratch the disc...

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I recall years ago when DVD came out that Capitol Records was going to reissue Garth Brooks' entire catalog... on DVD, with access to the album, extra tracks, images and videos.

That never happened. But it's possible to do that now with Blu-ray. From what I understand one Blu-ray can hold essentially a box set's worth of music on it.

However, it seems pointless due to online technology for storage, streaming, etc and besides, if you scratch the disc...

Unfortunately, the market has shown that people rarely re-purchase music just because it has better sound quality.

But, my guess is the most popular music format of the future will be lossless downloads, .flac, Apple or whatever. The cost and availability of cheap storage should have made .mp3's obsolete long ago!

I am surprised high quality DVD audio never took off, I loved it. Funnily, Neil Young blames it on the women who run most households not wanting to sacrifice furniture space for speakers for the 5.1 surround that DVD audio highlighted.

peace

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I recall years ago when DVD came out that Capitol Records was going to reissue Garth Brooks' entire catalog... on DVD, with access to the album, extra tracks, images and videos.

That never happened. But it's possible to do that now with Blu-ray. From what I understand one Blu-ray can hold essentially a box set's worth of music on it.

However, it seems pointless due to online technology for storage, streaming, etc and besides, if you scratch the disc...

Unfortunately, the market has shown that people rarely re-purchase music just because it has better sound quality.

But, my guess is the most popular music format of the future will be lossless downloads, .flac, Apple or whatever. The cost and availability of cheap storage should have made .mp3's obsolete long ago!

I am surprised high quality DVD audio never took off, I loved it. Funnily, Neil Young blames it on the women who run most households not wanting to sacrifice furniture space for speakers for the 5.1 surround that DVD audio highlighted.

peace

That's certainly how it works in this household!

Hot Rocks sales: 5,863

Digital sales: 4,393
Phisical sales: 544
Streaming/track sales points: 926


Beginning with the December 13, 2014 issue, Billboard updated the methodology of their album chart, changing from a "pure sales-based ranking" to one measuring "multi-metric consumption".With this overhaul, the Billboard 200 includes on-demand streaming and digital track sales (as measured by Nielsen SoundScan) by way of a new algorithm, utilizing data from all of the major on-demand audio subscription services including Spotify, Beats Music, Google Play and Xbox Music. Under the new methodology, ten track sales or 1,500 song streams from an album are treated as equivalent to one purchase of the album.

Any idea - I know HOT ROCKS is the biggest selling Stones release of all Stones issued material - in what order Stones comps rank in terms of sales? HOT ROCKS is obviously their most known hits comp. I wonder how the rest rank. People I know of tend to think of HOT ROCKS, MADE IN THE SHADE and REWIND as the 3 hits comps the Stones have, most unaware of all the others!

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Any idea - I know HOT ROCKS is the biggest selling Stones release of all Stones issued material - in what order Stones comps rank in terms of sales? HOT ROCKS is obviously their most known hits comp. I wonder how the rest rank. People I know of tend to think of HOT ROCKS, MADE IN THE SHADE and REWIND as the 3 hits comps the Stones have, most unaware of all the others!

I think 40 Licks is number 2. It sold 4 million or something, didn't it? It was the first time the two halves of their catalogue were merged so it had some cache at the time, plus of course the tour to promote it.

40 licks is out of print since late 2006 and is not available on download sites as iTunes too, the album was their best seller from 2002-2007 with over 7 million copies worldwide.
In term of sales we have:
1- Hot Rocks (15 million worldwide)
2- 40 Licks (7,5 m)
3- Jump Back (5,5 m)
4- Big Hits (5 m)
5- Through The Past Darkly (3 m)
6- Rewind/Made In The Shade (2 m)
7- Grrr (1.6 m)
8- Rolled Gold (1.5 m only in Europe)

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40 licks is out of print since late 2006 and is not available on download sites as iTunes too, the album was their best seller from 2002-2007 with over 7 million copies worldwide.
In term of sales we have:
1- Hot Rocks (15 million worldwide)
2- 40 Licks (7,5 m)
3- Jump Back (5,5 m)
4- Big Hits (5 m)
5- Through The Past Darkly (3 m)
6- Rewind/Made In The Shade (2 m)
7- Grrr (1.6 m)
8- Rolled Gold (1.5 m only in Europe)

impressive numbers for 40 Licks. Not too many of their studio albums have even sold that much.

Some Girls, Tattoo You...Sticky Fingers maybe? Surely nothing else?

Some Girls (10 m)
Tattoo You (8 m)

Then there is a bunch of albums all around the 5-6 million mark:
Voodoo Lounge, Steel Wheels, Goats Head Soup, Exile and Sticky Fingers

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Some Girls (10 m)
Tattoo You (8 m)

Then there is a bunch of albums all around the 5-6 million mark:
Voodoo Lounge, Steel Wheels, Goats Head Soup, Exile and Sticky Fingers

To extrapolate, no matter how much the diehards love their best albums, the wider audience see them as a 'singles' band.

I guess they really are a mix of both, sort of like the Beatles and to a lesser extent the Kinks and the Who.

By contrast Zeppelin and Pink Floyd are rather obvious 'album' bands that had a few singles sprinkled in.

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40 licks is out of print since late 2006 and is not available on download sites as iTunes too, the album was their best seller from 2002-2007 with over 7 million copies worldwide.
In term of sales we have:
1- Hot Rocks (15 million worldwide)
2- 40 Licks (7,5 m)
3- Jump Back (5,5 m)
4- Big Hits (5 m)
5- Through The Past Darkly (3 m)
6- Rewind/Made In The Shade (2 m)
7- Grrr (1.6 m)
8- Rolled Gold (1.5 m only in Europe)

Oh man! The two best comps aren't on that! SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES and TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE!

SITS had to of sold at least 500,000 in 1981 alone... I know it's sold at least two more since then since I bought the original CD issue and the Virgin reissue...

Thanks for posting those numbers.

Georgelicks, you had a thread somewhere - at least I think you did - that listed album sales for the Stones... any idea where it is or what it's called? I did a search and nothing came up.

Anyway, it's nice to see those numbers. Would be great to see comps and albums sales of everything.

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40 licks is out of print since late 2006 and is not available on download sites as iTunes too, the album was their best seller from 2002-2007 with over 7 million copies worldwide.
In term of sales we have:
1- Hot Rocks (15 million worldwide)
2- 40 Licks (7,5 m)
3- Jump Back (5,5 m)
4- Big Hits (5 m)
5- Through The Past Darkly (3 m)
6- Rewind/Made In The Shade (2 m)
7- Grrr (1.6 m)
8- Rolled Gold (1.5 m only in Europe)

impressive numbers for 40 Licks.

Indeed. It is no wonder that instead of making a new studio album, it was much more tempting to release another greatest hits album to celebrate the 50th Anniversary. A BIGGER BANG has sold - what? - two/three millions if memory serves. For today's numbers, 1.6 m of GRRR ain't that bad, and now when 40 LICKS is out, it will sell steadily until the next compilation albums comes...

Interesting to see that the 'mother of all compilation albums', BIG HITS from 1966, has sold so much, and is, actually, their best selling album from the 60's.

- Doxa

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Georgelicks, you had a thread somewhere - at least I think you did - that listed album sales for the Stones... any idea where it is or what it's called? I did a search and nothing came up.

Anyway, it's nice to see those numbers. Would be great to see comps and albums sales of everything.

Here is the link:
[www.iorr.org]

You have to add 1.2 million copies to Exile's total from the 2010 re-issue and about 300,000 to Some Girls.



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