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Where is HAVANNA MOON? Missing in the list?

Apparently hardly anyone bought it!

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Yeah, watching those digital and streaming sales - which are almost identical - it starts to be clear what are the songs that constitute the Rolling Stones legacy; the songs they are most remembered for. Not exactly any big surprises, but still some interesting features. Some quick remarks.

1. "Paint It Black" is nowadays their most popular song. It's always been a classic and one of their most well-known songs, but for years and decades like a 'hidden 60's gem' behind signatures like "Satisfaction" and "Brown Sugar", the band didn't play, etc. but now its status is established. Don't ask why it is a war horse now. Of course they need to play it.

2. For decades album cuts "Gimme Shelter" and "Sympathy For The Devil" have been estimated their biggest artistic hours by critics, but now those era-defining anthems are also favourites of big public. Familiar from movies, tv series, documentaries covering the 60's etc. Their 'war horses' status is granted. No wonder no Stones show without them.

3. "Beast of Burden" belongs clearly to their most memorable songs nowadays. A minor single hit back in 1978, but now their most popular 'ballad' (slightly above "Angie" and "Wild Horses"). It is streamed over five times more than the huge single hit of SOME GIRLS, "Miss You"(by comparison, back in 1978 "Miss You" sold 3,4 m against 0,7m of "Beast of Burden). Interesting that they don't play it that much, but have cemented the status of "Miss You". But yeah, they don't want to play ballads that often, but circulate them.

4. "Start Me Up" clearly belongs to the class of their signature riffage songs, only "Satisfaction" winning it in popularity. It is clearly more popular than its iconic forerunners it took inspiration and model from: "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Honky Tonk" and "Brown Sugar". Did we see that happen? And as a massive hit back then (1981) it has maintained its popularity, if not even gathering some more. By contrast, all of their other single hits since "Angie" have almost forgotten, some almost dramatically (see "Fool To Cry", Emotional Rescue", "Undercover of the Night").

5. What has happened to huge single hits and concert pleasers "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women"? Surely they still are very popular, but that of not making any longer top ten, and being far from the popularity of their actual top songs, is a bit surprising. "Honky Tonk" is even outstreamed by its (once) b-side "You Can't AlWays Get What You Want".

6. The emergence of 'big' album cuts. "Shelter" and "Sympathy" being the tip of the ice berg, and equally epic rally song "Can't Always Get What You Want" following them, but that of "Under My Thumb" competing in popularity with "Flash" and "Honk" sounds interesting. And "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?" not lurking far behind. I kinda estimated the success of "Under My Thumb" but the success of 'deep album cut' like "Knocking" was a big surprise, leaving behind many iconic hit songs ("Tumbling Dice", "Ruby Tuesday", "Street Fighting Man", "Miss You", etc).

7. People don't care a shit about any Stones song released after TATTOO YOU (except "Anybody Seen My Baby?"). We knew that, but the statistics are even more cruel. Yeah, the albums were always good sellers at the time, but the songs forgotten now (almost the same, but not so dramatically, can be said of many of their 60's single hits, such as "19th Nervous Breakdown", "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby"and We Love You").

8. If you want a memorable song, don't let Keith sing it. Only three made the top 100, his signature "Happy", once a minor single hit, being the best (#36). The tales of his solo spots being a piss break get some support from streaming stats.

- Doxa

Interesting analysis. Been thinking in the same terms:

* Paint it black is growing fast especially this summer when it comes to streams. In late may it was at around 290 million streams on spotify and are now at 337 million streams - still growing much faster then the other in the top 10. It might be there most "recognized" song nowadays. I am guessing that playlists is an important source.

Beast of Burden is from time to time on their top 5 most streamed. Should absolutely be played more often om concerts, could do with a bit faster tempo.

One question about Jumpin' Jack Flash: wonder how they calculate that one, think it suffered from that for instance on spotify it was stated as both "Jumping" and "Jumpin" which probably has an effect.

One other think: IORR has very low figures. Not a number one at the time, but hey it's played all the time at concerts, should draw some traffic.. Might be that the album don't have huge streams which affects streams on the single as well.

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Where is HAVANNA MOON? Missing in the list?

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The journey of Paint It Black is indeed fascinating.

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ROLLING STONES TOP SELLING MUSIC VIDEOS

1. FOUR FLICKS 1 100 000
2. THE BIGGEST BANG 650 000
3. SHINE A LIGHT 600 000
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The journey of Paint It Black is indeed fascinating.

Indeed. And how much things can change over time: 2 years ago Queen had about 50% of the streams the Stones had. Now, after the movie and the soundtrack they are around 250% ahead. With their fifth most streamed song on Spotify being We Will Rock You at 415 million. Bohemian Rhapsody will pass the 1 billion mark this year.

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The journey of Paint It Black is indeed fascinating.

Indeed. And how much things can change over time: 2 years ago Queen had about 50% of the streams the Stones had. Now, after the movie and the soundtrack they are around 250% ahead. With their fifth most streamed song on Spotify being We Will Rock You at 415 million. Bohemian Rhapsody will pass the 1 billion mark this year.

This is interesting, and says a lot of our 'streaming era'. When one 'hits' big time, one really hits big time. Surely that kind of reaction was seen in the days when people were still buying music, but now the peaks are so strongly visible. I mean, once one had bought a record, how many listenings one would do, didn't matter. Now every listening qualifies. As far as I know The Stones as a catologue artist are rather steady 'streamers', and seemingly doing better at the monent than usual (thanks for your numbers!), but still one can only imagine what will happen when they actually call it quits with no possible return in sight (which only can mean some sudden fatal thing I don't want even say overtly here). Then their uniqueness and significance can really be felt. But let that day be far ahead of us, and let us just enjoy them still promoting their music as an on-going act.

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The next batch of Billboard Boxscores were out last week. Not sure how to post the link here. New Orleans "sold out" with 35023 attendance. Philly 51115, Houston 45958 and Jacksonvile 50358. All listed as sold out.

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The journey of Paint It Black is indeed fascinating.

Indeed. And how much things can change over time: 2 years ago Queen had about 50% of the streams the Stones had. Now, after the movie and the soundtrack they are around 250% ahead. With their fifth most streamed song on Spotify being We Will Rock You at 415 million. Bohemian Rhapsody will pass the 1 billion mark this year.

This is interesting, and says a lot of our 'streaming era'. When one 'hits' big time, one really hits big time. Surely that kind of reaction was seen in the days when people were still buying music, but now the peaks are so strongly visible. I mean, once one had bought a record, how many listenings one would do, didn't matter. Now every listening qualifies. As far as I know The Stones as a catologue artist are rather steady 'streamers', and seemingly doing better at the monent than usual (thanks for your numbers!), but still one can only imagine what will happen when they actually call it quits with no possible return in sight (which only can mean some sudden fatal thing I don't want even say overtly here). Then their uniqueness and significance can really be felt. But let that day be far ahead of us, and let us just enjoy them still promoting their music as an on-going act.

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The journey of Paint It Black is indeed fascinating.

Indeed. And how much things can change over time: 2 years ago Queen had about 50% of the streams the Stones had. Now, after the movie and the soundtrack they are around 250% ahead. With their fifth most streamed song on Spotify being We Will Rock You at 415 million. Bohemian Rhapsody will pass the 1 billion mark this year.

This is interesting, and says a lot of our 'streaming era'. When one 'hits' big time, one really hits big time. Surely that kind of reaction was seen in the days when people were still buying music, but now the peaks are so strongly visible. I mean, once one had bought a record, how many listenings one would do, didn't matter. Now every listening qualifies. As far as I know The Stones as a catologue artist are rather steady 'streamers', and seemingly doing better at the monent than usual (thanks for your numbers!), but still one can only imagine what will happen when they actually call it quits with no possible return in sight (which only can mean some sudden fatal thing I don't want even say overtly here). Then their uniqueness and significance can really be felt. But let that day be far ahead of us, and let us just enjoy them still promoting their music as an on-going act.

- Doxa

I suppose if the numbers for The Beatles and Led Zeppelin were to be looked at (why not include Pink Floyd, U2 and AC/DC too) the numbers would be relevant to what's popular?

Granted, this week, this month kind of thing - it can change quickly - but I'm going to guess it "evens out" at some point and gets back to being just a greatest hits kind of thing.

Not many people are probably streaming AC/DC's last, well, since THE RAZOR'S EDGE I would think, but certainly earlier albums and or songs with all those raunchy classic tunes... and they haven't hung it up yet as well - not that that matters: people don't go to the shows to hear the latest single, no matter how good it is. They're another catalog band.

Retired bands - probably a bigger streaming load than the Stones with way less albums/songs to choose from because of the aspect of that's all there will ever be or it's what mom and dad or my brother or sister or my uncle etc listened to and skateboarders like blah blah blah so at least it's good music.

Take into account their longevity/discography and, hit singles aside up until 1981, they probably aren't streaming as much as LZ or some of PF's songs, possibly because for younger people they're just not as cool... or something like that.

That's just a guess. That may never change, regardless of how long the Stones continue - to tour, at least. No one gives a shit past 1981 as it is so... that may be a good way to look at it.

Why SHINE A LIGHT sold so well is a mystery, other than initial theatre run, because it's really bad. Of all things, GIMME SHELTER is way down the ranks. FOUR FLICKS makes sense - it was the peak of DVD sales and that box set is outstanding, it was affordably priced, as I recall, and the tour was quite big, lots of press, but A BIGGER BANG is just... yawn: a very poorly executed repeat.

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The journey of Paint It Black is indeed fascinating.

Indeed. And how much things can change over time: 2 years ago Queen had about 50% of the streams the Stones had. Now, after the movie and the soundtrack they are around 250% ahead. With their fifth most streamed song on Spotify being We Will Rock You at 415 million. Bohemian Rhapsody will pass the 1 billion mark this year.

This is interesting, and says a lot of our 'streaming era'. When one 'hits' big time, one really hits big time. Surely that kind of reaction was seen in the days when people were still buying music, but now the peaks are so strongly visible. I mean, once one had bought a record, how many listenings one would do, didn't matter. Now every listening qualifies. As far as I know The Stones as a catologue artist are rather steady 'streamers', and seemingly doing better at the monent than usual (thanks for your numbers!), but still one can only imagine what will happen when they actually call it quits with no possible return in sight (which only can mean some sudden fatal thing I don't want even say overtly here). Then their uniqueness and significance can really be felt. But let that day be far ahead of us, and let us just enjoy them still promoting their music as an on-going act.

- Doxa

I suppose if the numbers for The Beatles and Led Zeppelin were to be looked at (why not include Pink Floyd, U2 and AC/DC too) the numbers would be relevant to what's popular?

Granted, this week, this month kind of thing - it can change quickly - but I'm going to guess it "evens out" at some point and gets back to being just a greatest hits kind of thing.

Not many people are probably streaming AC/DC's last, well, since THE RAZOR'S EDGE I would think, but certainly earlier albums and or songs with all those raunchy classic tunes... and they haven't hung it up yet as well - not that that matters: people don't go to the shows to hear the latest single, no matter how good it is. They're another catalog band.

Retired bands - probably a bigger streaming load than the Stones with way less albums/songs to choose from because of the aspect of that's all there will ever be or it's what mom and dad or my brother or sister or my uncle etc listened to and skateboarders like blah blah blah so at least it's good music.

Take into account their longevity/discography and, hit singles aside up until 1981, they probably aren't streaming as much as LZ or some of PF's songs, possibly because for younger people they're just not as cool... or something like that.

That's just a guess. That may never change, regardless of how long the Stones continue - to tour, at least. No one gives a shit past 1981 as it is so... that may be a good way to look at it.

Why SHINE A LIGHT sold so well is a mystery, other than initial theatre run, because it's really bad. Of all things, GIMME SHELTER is way down the ranks. FOUR FLICKS makes sense - it was the peak of DVD sales and that box set is outstanding, it was affordably priced, as I recall, and the tour was quite big, lots of press, but A BIGGER BANG is just... yawn: a very poorly executed repeat.

I can only answer for Spotify, goes like this:

Top 5 streams, Stones (in million)
PIB 344
Satisfaction 242
Gimme Shelter 222
Sympathy 220
Start me up 200

In comparison to Beatles:
Here comes the sun 348
Come together 231
Let it be 197
Hey Jude 196
Yesterday 163

Led Zeppelin:
STH 344
Immigrant song 232
Whole lotta love 207
Good times Bad Times 126
Black dog 116

Pink Floyd:
Wish you were here 290
Another Brick in the Wall 282
Comfortably Numb 203
Money 182
Time 113

AC/DC has gone really well in the last few years, publicity has been good, you can see that in the streams as well:

Back in black 439
Highway to hell 433
Thunderstruck 412
Shook me all night long 301
TNT 202

U2 is not that strong within streaming as one might think:
With or without you 340
Beautiful day 206
Still havent found what Im looking for 204
One 176
Sunday, bloody Sunday 118

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Where is HAVANNA MOON? Missing in the list?

Apparently hardly anyone bought it!

I had to...

HAVANA MOON belongs to a category of its own, although I dont't have exact numbers for it. But anyway, here they are, their best selling music videos/films, covering all (VHS, DVD, etc.) formats. Based again on database of chartmasters.org, and covering the sales by 2016:


ROLLING STONES TOP SELLING MUSIC VIDEOS

1. FOUR FLICKS 1 100 000
2. THE BIGGEST BANG 650 000
3. SHINE A LIGHT 600 000
4. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 425 000
5. ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS 350 000
5. SOME GIRLS: LIVE IN TEXAS '78 350 000
5. 25X5 350 000
8. GIMME SHELTER 300 000
8. SWEET SUMMER SUN 300 000
8. LIVE AT THE MAX 300 000
8. BRIDGES TO BABYLON: 1998 LIVE CONCERT 300 000
8. VOODOO LOUNGE 300 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HYDE PARK 1969 250 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, LA FORUM, LIVE 1975 200 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HAUMPTON COLISEUM 1981 200 000
16. FROM THE VAULT, THE MARQUEE CLUB 1971 150 000
16. LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER 150 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT LEEDS 1982 100 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT THE TOKYO DOME 1990 100 000
20. REWIND 75 000

Plus there are estimated 1 050 000 sales covering additional releases, such as STONES IN EXILE, CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, HAVANA MOON and TOTALLY STRIPPED. Unfortunately those are not spesified.

Taken together they have sold about 7,5 m music videos (by 2016).

- Doxa

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Where is HAVANNA MOON? Missing in the list?

Apparently hardly anyone bought it!

I had to...

HAVANA MOON belongs to a category of its own, although I dont't have exact numbers for it. But anyway, here they are, their best selling music videos/films, covering all (VHS, DVD, etc.) formats. Based again on database of chartmasters.org, and covering the sales by 2016:


ROLLING STONES TOP SELLING MUSIC VIDEOS

1. FOUR FLICKS 1 100 000
2. THE BIGGEST BANG 650 000
3. SHINE A LIGHT 600 000
4. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 425 000
5. ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS 350 000
5. SOME GIRLS: LIVE IN TEXAS '78 350 000
5. 25X5 350 000
8. GIMME SHELTER 300 000
8. SWEET SUMMER SUN 300 000
8. LIVE AT THE MAX 300 000
8. BRIDGES TO BABYLON: 1998 LIVE CONCERT 300 000
8. VOODOO LOUNGE 300 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HYDE PARK 1969 250 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, LA FORUM, LIVE 1975 200 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HAUMPTON COLISEUM 1981 200 000
16. FROM THE VAULT, THE MARQUEE CLUB 1971 150 000
16. LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER 150 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT LEEDS 1982 100 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT THE TOKYO DOME 1990 100 000
20. REWIND 75 000

Plus there are estimated 1 050 000 sales covering additional releases, such as STONES IN EXILE, CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, HAVANA MOON and TOTALLY STRIPPED. Unfortunately those are not spesified.

Taken together they have sold about 7,5 m music videos (by 2016).

- Doxa

That's very strange that GIMME SHELTER, LSTNT and REWIND have such low sales. LSTN was huge! REWIND had to've done well, better than 75,000, in 1984-85. It seems like everyone I knew had the LP and the video.

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Where is HAVANNA MOON? Missing in the list?

Apparently hardly anyone bought it!

I had to...

HAVANA MOON belongs to a category of its own, although I dont't have exact numbers for it. But anyway, here they are, their best selling music videos/films, covering all (VHS, DVD, etc.) formats. Based again on database of chartmasters.org, and covering the sales by 2016:


ROLLING STONES TOP SELLING MUSIC VIDEOS

1. FOUR FLICKS 1 100 000
2. THE BIGGEST BANG 650 000
3. SHINE A LIGHT 600 000
4. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 425 000
5. ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS 350 000
5. SOME GIRLS: LIVE IN TEXAS '78 350 000
5. 25X5 350 000
8. GIMME SHELTER 300 000
8. SWEET SUMMER SUN 300 000
8. LIVE AT THE MAX 300 000
8. BRIDGES TO BABYLON: 1998 LIVE CONCERT 300 000
8. VOODOO LOUNGE 300 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HYDE PARK 1969 250 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, LA FORUM, LIVE 1975 200 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HAUMPTON COLISEUM 1981 200 000
16. FROM THE VAULT, THE MARQUEE CLUB 1971 150 000
16. LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER 150 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT LEEDS 1982 100 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT THE TOKYO DOME 1990 100 000
20. REWIND 75 000

Plus there are estimated 1 050 000 sales covering additional releases, such as STONES IN EXILE, CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, HAVANA MOON and TOTALLY STRIPPED. Unfortunately those are not spesified.

Taken together they have sold about 7,5 m music videos (by 2016).

- Doxa

That's very strange that GIMME SHELTER, LSTNT and REWIND have such low sales. LSTN was huge! REWIND had to've done well, better than 75,000, in 1984-85. It seems like everyone I knew had the LP and the video.

Sweet Summer Sun selling as much as Gimme Shelter (the latter has been released twice) doesn't look right, either.

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Where is HAVANNA MOON? Missing in the list?

Apparently hardly anyone bought it!

I had to...

HAVANA MOON belongs to a category of its own, although I dont't have exact numbers for it. But anyway, here they are, their best selling music videos/films, covering all (VHS, DVD, etc.) formats. Based again on database of chartmasters.org, and covering the sales by 2016:


ROLLING STONES TOP SELLING MUSIC VIDEOS

1. FOUR FLICKS 1 100 000
2. THE BIGGEST BANG 650 000
3. SHINE A LIGHT 600 000
4. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 425 000
5. ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS 350 000
5. SOME GIRLS: LIVE IN TEXAS '78 350 000
5. 25X5 350 000
8. GIMME SHELTER 300 000
8. SWEET SUMMER SUN 300 000
8. LIVE AT THE MAX 300 000
8. BRIDGES TO BABYLON: 1998 LIVE CONCERT 300 000
8. VOODOO LOUNGE 300 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HYDE PARK 1969 250 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, LA FORUM, LIVE 1975 200 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HAUMPTON COLISEUM 1981 200 000
16. FROM THE VAULT, THE MARQUEE CLUB 1971 150 000
16. LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER 150 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT LEEDS 1982 100 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT THE TOKYO DOME 1990 100 000
20. REWIND 75 000

Plus there are estimated 1 050 000 sales covering additional releases, such as STONES IN EXILE, CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, HAVANA MOON and TOTALLY STRIPPED. Unfortunately those are not spesified.

Taken together they have sold about 7,5 m music videos (by 2016).

- Doxa

That's very strange that GIMME SHELTER, LSTNT and REWIND have such low sales. LSTN was huge! REWIND had to've done well, better than 75,000, in 1984-85. It seems like everyone I knew had the LP and the video.

Sweet Summer Sun selling as much as Gimme Shelter (the latter has been released twice) doesn't look right, either.

Why? SSS would have been by many who bought it.

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That's very strange that GIMME SHELTER, LSTNT and REWIND have such low sales. LSTN was huge! REWIND had to've done well, better than 75,000, in 1984-85. It seems like everyone I knew had the LP and the video.

Sweet Summer Sun selling as much as Gimme Shelter (the latter has been released twice) doesn't look right, either.

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This might be a reason, too: The fans already had most of these releases on bootlegs

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This might be a reason, too: The fans already had most of these releases on bootlegs

Well, I think that explains the cases like GIMME SHELTER and LADIES AND GENTS, but not, like I tried to point out, R&R CIRCUS or SOME GIRLS IN TEXAS. The content of those was not much bootlegged, if at all, prior their official release.

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One reason might be that the SSS album/DVD-package is counted here. More people buy albums than DVDs. That might be it, actually.

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Re streaming, how much do artists like The Stones earn per stream, anyone hazard a guess? And then THAT amount is divided amongst the band, yes?

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Where is HAVANNA MOON? Missing in the list?

Apparently hardly anyone bought it!

I had to...

HAVANA MOON belongs to a category of its own, although I dont't have exact numbers for it. But anyway, here they are, their best selling music videos/films, covering all (VHS, DVD, etc.) formats. Based again on database of chartmasters.org, and covering the sales by 2016:


ROLLING STONES TOP SELLING MUSIC VIDEOS

1. FOUR FLICKS 1 100 000
2. THE BIGGEST BANG 650 000
3. SHINE A LIGHT 600 000
4. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 425 000
5. ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS 350 000
5. SOME GIRLS: LIVE IN TEXAS '78 350 000
5. 25X5 350 000
8. GIMME SHELTER 300 000
8. SWEET SUMMER SUN 300 000
8. LIVE AT THE MAX 300 000
8. BRIDGES TO BABYLON: 1998 LIVE CONCERT 300 000
8. VOODOO LOUNGE 300 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HYDE PARK 1969 250 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, LA FORUM, LIVE 1975 200 000
13. FROM THE VAULT, HAUMPTON COLISEUM 1981 200 000
16. FROM THE VAULT, THE MARQUEE CLUB 1971 150 000
16. LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER 150 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT LEEDS 1982 100 000
18. FROM THE VAULT, LIVE AT THE TOKYO DOME 1990 100 000
20. REWIND 75 000

Plus there are estimated 1 050 000 sales covering additional releases, such as STONES IN EXILE, CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, HAVANA MOON and TOTALLY STRIPPED. Unfortunately those are not spesified.

Taken together they have sold about 7,5 m music videos (by 2016).

- Doxa

That's very strange that GIMME SHELTER, LSTNT and REWIND have such low sales. LSTN was huge! REWIND had to've done well, better than 75,000, in 1984-85. It seems like everyone I knew had the LP and the video.

Sweet Summer Sun selling as much as Gimme Shelter (the latter has been released twice) doesn't look right, either.

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(...)

ROLLING STONES TOP SELLING MUSIC VIDEOS

1. FOUR FLICKS 1 100 000
2. THE BIGGEST BANG 650 000
3. SHINE A LIGHT 600 000
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- Doxa

It's hard for me to believe that Shine a Light, directed by Martin Scorsese, with theatrical run and relatively large promotion, hasn't surpassed Four Flicks and Biggest Bang. Is is possible that these are the numbers of units sold (sales multiplied by number of discs)?

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ROLLING STONES TOP SELLING MUSIC VIDEOS

1. FOUR FLICKS 1 100 000
2. THE BIGGEST BANG 650 000
3. SHINE A LIGHT 600 000
(...)

- Doxa

It's hard for me to believe that Shine a Light, directed by Martin Scorsese, with theatrical run and relatively large promotion, hasn't surpassed Four Flicks and Biggest Bang. Is is possible that these are the numbers of units sold (sales multiplied by number of discs)?

I think that is correct...I recall that analysis when Four Flicks was first released...it had sold an incredible number of units, but it was recorded as a multiple of the discs contained within.

That said, I recall the number being much higher so the 1.1 million may actually be the number of boxes sold. I can't recall for sure though.