bathiu
Refugee
There are few people here wave: Hi U2girl) that like to use this argument:
"U2 lost fans with their 90's music, look at the sales/sales of the albums prove it...etc"
...so, my question is: how -we- fans (the number of us) compare to total album sales?
(and by a "fan" I mean a person that has at least all albums; lets leave singles, videos, dvds and bootlegs out of this)
For example: if U2 had 6mln fans after 'War', the sales of Boy and October would be much bigger after that... if U2 had 28(?)mln fans after JT than all albums before JT would get a huge boost in sales as well... also R&H would sell much more than it did.
Do you get what I'm saying?
Why after so many albums Boy and October are still around 3mlns in sales?
Does it mean U2 have only 3mln "hardcore" fans? Does it make the sales of of POP (7-8mln) more impressive?
I want to say that this argument: "U2 lost fans in the 90's" is a huge BS, it doesn't work that way IMO.
How many of us have one or two (out of 5 or 6 or 11) albums of some artist and we don't care about the rest of his/her/their work?
What I want to say is that U2 did not have (almost) 30mln fans in the 80's and they did not have 8mln fans by the end of the 90's... and they do not have 10-12mln fans in the 00's.
(IMO)
What do you think?
"U2 lost fans with their 90's music, look at the sales/sales of the albums prove it...etc"
...so, my question is: how -we- fans (the number of us) compare to total album sales?
(and by a "fan" I mean a person that has at least all albums; lets leave singles, videos, dvds and bootlegs out of this)
For example: if U2 had 6mln fans after 'War', the sales of Boy and October would be much bigger after that... if U2 had 28(?)mln fans after JT than all albums before JT would get a huge boost in sales as well... also R&H would sell much more than it did.
Do you get what I'm saying?
Why after so many albums Boy and October are still around 3mlns in sales?
Does it mean U2 have only 3mln "hardcore" fans? Does it make the sales of of POP (7-8mln) more impressive?
I want to say that this argument: "U2 lost fans in the 90's" is a huge BS, it doesn't work that way IMO.
How many of us have one or two (out of 5 or 6 or 11) albums of some artist and we don't care about the rest of his/her/their work?
What I want to say is that U2 did not have (almost) 30mln fans in the 80's and they did not have 8mln fans by the end of the 90's... and they do not have 10-12mln fans in the 00's.
(IMO)
What do you think?