Tuesday 19 February 2013

Blur's best sellers

I was browsing the Internet, as you do, looking for some information about Blur. Specifically I was looking to see if Under The Westway (No 34) was their lowest charting UK single - it wasn't by the way, She's So High only reached number 48.

So I stumbled upon some figures for Blur album sales and it was a bit of surprise. When you think Blur, you think Parklife don't you? I think most people do. Yet Parklife is not their biggest selling album worldwide, it's not even second!  So what are the sales?


UKUSAWorldwide
Blur
599,000
500,000
3,000,000
The Great Escape
1,050,000
122,000
2,540,000
Parklife
1,250,000
150,000
2,500,000
13
499,000
233,000
1,550,000
Think Tank
240,000
100,000
1,500,000
Leisure
150,000
100,000
950,000
Modern Life Is Rubbish
150,000
55,000
750,000

In one way of course it doesn't really matter, sales are only numbers (and the source behind these is hardly scientific) and the albums stand on their own merits. Having said that, it does make me want to go back and re-listen to them again. I don't think that the sales ranking would reflect my personal ordering but maybe after a fresh listen I'll update my opinion!

Photo from musicinsanity.wordpress.com 
Update:
Several people have quite correctly pointed out that sales of Blur would have been significantly boosted by the success of 'that woohoo song' in the States.  So I thought I'd update the table to show the UK and USA sales figures to demonstrate.


5 comments:

  1. The sales record of "Blur" must come from that song "Chinese Bombs"...
    Best wishes

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  2. 'Blur' is an amazing album. but its hard to pick their best!

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  3. Where is this info coming from? So you're saying despite think tank selling considerably less in the US and UK, it was trumped by just 50,000 units by 13? I think not.

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  4. Hello Nick. Where did you get these sales figures from?

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