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Biggest selling EDM artist (pg. 2)
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Are there any records of this, would love to see just vinyl sales as something like ATB-9pm sold millions of cd singles so would skew the results.
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How is that skewed results?
Sales is sales... |
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| SYSTEM-J |
The Prodigy had sold 5 million records before Fat of the Land. I believe FOTL sold 7 million, and they've had records out since then, so the Prodigy tallies up to about 12-14 million.
Faithless had sold 10 million records before they released their Greatest Hits, which is still selling well. Expect it to go multiple platinum.
I know Moby has sold 8 million copies of Play alone, and Fatboy Slim sold 5 million copies of You've Come A Long Way Baby. Fatboy also sold a million of Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars.
Sash! has sold 20 million records. 2 Unlimited have sold 18 million records. Well out in front you could say is Jean Michel Jarre, on 55 million records.
No trance artist is remotely up there. Robert Miles may have shifted 4.5 million copies of Children, but I doubt he's sold more than 6 million total.
So... my money is on Jean Michel Jarre, if you will count him as EDM. 55 million albums is a figure nobody looks likely to beat. Pop dance artists like Sash!, 2 Unlimited, Snap and C&C Music Factory will all be up there. Of contempory acts, The Prodigy and Moby look like top dogs. |
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| DJ Cinos |
| Aren't Scooter somewhere up there too? |
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| Clyde77 |
sasha gu013 is kinda up there also but im not so sure.
also perpetuous dreamer - sound of goodbye, biggest selling single? |
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| RebeL9 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Cinos
Aren't Scooter somewhere up there too? |
yeah it says on their website that they've sold over 10 million CDs |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clyde77
sasha gu013 is kinda up there also but im not so sure.
also perpetuous dreamer - sound of goodbye, biggest selling single? |
Not a chance in hell. Trance does not sell enough, and it never, ever has. |
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| dinoXpress |
| DJ Sammy is HIIIGH up there for just one guy... |
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| slinkyhead |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
The Prodigy had sold 5 million records before Fat of the Land. I believe FOTL sold 7 million, and they've had records out since then, so the Prodigy tallies up to about 12-14 million.
Faithless had sold 10 million records before they released their Greatest Hits, which is still selling well. Expect it to go multiple platinum.
I know Moby has sold 8 million copies of Play alone, and Fatboy Slim sold 5 million copies of You've Come A Long Way Baby. Fatboy also sold a million of Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars.
Sash! has sold 20 million records. 2 Unlimited have sold 18 million records. Well out in front you could say is Jean Michel Jarre, on 55 million records.
No trance artist is remotely up there. Robert Miles may have shifted 4.5 million copies of Children, but I doubt he's sold more than 6 million total.
So... my money is on Jean Michel Jarre, if you will count him as EDM. 55 million albums is a figure nobody looks likely to beat. Pop dance artists like Sash!, 2 Unlimited, Snap and C&C Music Factory will all be up there. Of contempory acts, The Prodigy and Moby look like top dogs. |
aren't you the wealth of information.
Never realised JMJ had sold so much. |
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| paranoik0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clyde77
sasha gu013 is kinda up there also but im not so sure.
also perpetuous dreamer - sound of goodbye, biggest selling single? |
:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: |
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| Ishkur |
If you reaaaally want to get picky about it.....Michael Jackson.
Thriller, an electronic disco album through and through, sold 45 million copies all by itself. If you include everything else, including re-issues, remix comps and "Greatest Hits...", he's sold well over 100 million albums.
If you don't want to be that picky.....Dr. Dre. Though I don't have any hard or fast figures, every single one of his projects since his NWA days have gone multi-platnum many times over.
If you don't even want to be that picky (ie: the response you're looking for is a trance artist only).....Robert Miles. Children was the great commercial success that taught the rest of the trance industry how to be more commercial. |
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