It was all pure sales. I don't think streams were even counted at the time.
Billboard later changed their policy, because a lot of the new "superstars" sell beans in physical units.
I was all over the sales figures at the time and as I recall it was still selling about a thousand a week worldwide before it became impossible to get any more figures.
In the States it was over 420,000. So it sold more in the rest of the world.
They also came very close to a gold record in Japan,(82,000 in sales. About 18,000 short) which is very difficult to do for a foreign act.
Yes, the much maligned Tattoo was actually a hit over there.
Billboard later changed their policy, because a lot of the new "superstars" sell beans in physical units.
I was all over the sales figures at the time and as I recall it was still selling about a thousand a week worldwide before it became impossible to get any more figures.
In the States it was over 420,000. So it sold more in the rest of the world.
They also came very close to a gold record in Japan,(82,000 in sales. About 18,000 short) which is very difficult to do for a foreign act.
Yes, the much maligned Tattoo was actually a hit over there.
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