VERY INTERESTING THREA

total world wide album sales.

1978 For You: 950,000

1979 Prince: 2,000,000

1980 Dirty Mind: 2,035,000 it should have been higher

1981 Controversy: 2,680,000

1982 1999: 6,400,000 that's my boy the beginning of the golden age

1984 Purple Rain: 21,000,000 (Highest selling Prince album) HISTORY

1985 Around The World In A Day: 4,600,000 amazing considering the low promo

1986 Parade: 4,210,000 I guess Kiss is the one to "blame" here

1987 Sign Of The Times: 4,225,000 not bad at all, considering that it hadn't many hits

1988 Lovesexy: 2,895,000 still high nonetheless

1989 Batman: 7,000,000 thanks to the movie

1990 Graffiti Bridge: 2,500,000 and some people still call this whole project a failure...

1991 Diamonds & Pearls: 6,750,000 Prince still had it

1992 Symbol: 4,800,000 well done NPG!

1993 The Hits 1,2/The B-Sides: 5,200,000

1994 Come: 1,300,000 not bad at all

1994 The Black Album: 590,000 not surprising

1995 The Gold Experience: 920,000 that album could and should have been a mega-hit

1996 Chaos & Disorder: 360,000 the beginning of the end, people already tired of his antics and viewing him as the villian of the story (not just Warners)



1996 Emancipation: 1,250,000 (Certified 2x Platinum by RIAA for 3 disc set) had it been a single album, the sales would have been 600.000 aprox...

1998 Crystal Ball: 277,000 ugh

1998 Newpower Soul: 435,000

1999 The Vault: 265,000

1999 Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic: 765,000 not bad for a total failure of a project, disappointing that it didn't reach the million, but THE END nonetheless

2001 The Very Best Of Prince: 2,300,000

2001 The Rainbow Children: 320,000 pfff

2002 One Night Alone Live: N/A

2003 N.E.W.S.: 40,000 (Lowest selling Prince album)



2004 Musicology: 2,500,000 didn't know that

2006 3121: 1,000,000 kind of low...

2006 Ultimate Prince: 500,000 only that?

2007 Planet Earth: 300,000 (U.S. Sales only) bad promotion/distribution

2009 LotusFlow3r: 544,700 bad promotion/distribution

2010 20Ten: (N/A) AWFUL promotion/distribution

2014 Art Official Age: 51,003 (U.S. 1st week sales) bad promotion, lack of a real single with hit potential...and worst era of all time for the industry in term of sales

2014 Plectrum Electrum: 26,360 (U.S. 1st week sales) not surprising