Quote Originally Posted by Snowbunny
I guess I hang around music geek boards too much, cause I thought Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips did have pretty high album sales. How would you even find out that information? Can anyone tell me the difference in units sold between The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi and Coldplay - A Rush of Blood To The Head ?
Yeah, it's pretty hard to find sales info unless you're signed up for some of the premium reporting services, and even then I guess it's still open to a lot of interpretation. I'd guess that Coldplay sales were at least 20 times that of The Flaming Lips (maybe 50 times), but don't have much to back it up other than A Rush Of Blood To The Head was one of the top 20 best selling albums in the US this year, even being released in 2002. It typically gets a few rows of display space at the dept stores like Best Buy. The Flaming Lips are probably one of the biggest selling indie type bands on a major label right now with Yoshimi and the TV commercials and Justin Timberlake performing with them and the new high-tech DVD-A and all that, but I would guess that total sales for their last album is still far less than a week of Coldplay sales after the Grammys. Or maybe about the same, who knows. I think the last Coldplay album dominated your Canadian charts for quite awhile this year. Grandaddy doesn't even register on sales charts as they're only an obscure indie band. Probably in the 20,000 range. Maybe a little more. They're much more popular in Europe, I believe.

But to answer your question more directly, I don't know