Albums sales, from 1984 to 2019/2020

[Red]

I've got a Thunder & Consolation gold disc for 1 million copies but I doubt it's originality as I doubt it has sold this many.

It's on the USA Capitol label

[Rusco]

How is it, does EMI still have a permission to re-release any of the earlier material NMA performed in the early EMI era? I think some of the "new" compilations look, ummm...a bit "commercial", or at least different compared to new albums on Attack Attack etc...

Maybe this was asked/answered here long time ago but I can't remember. 
Please, forgive my bad memory.

[Coumarin]

there was a slogan and a symbol to go along with it in the early eighties "home taping is killing music" issued by record companies. think of how many times you have done that? with CDs as well?. to convince a newcomer to the band you love? this contract is in the past. maybe the band don't reap the royalties anymore. but it is spreading the music. surely, and NMA possibly enjoying the record sales from a back catalogue, to boost the future?

[Master Ray]

I would have thought that NMA still get paid for every album sold even if the contract has expired, after all the tunes aren't in the public domain..?

I would also have thought that they get paid more for every physical album sold than certain streaming services?

[Coumarin]

so why is there moaning about it? clinging onto the past?. Didn't Justin say after the fire that's about the future?

[Rusco]

No moaning. Just interested to ask how is it. 

Have to admit, I wouldn't be surprised if big companies could hold a right to use some tapes in certain media forms or get profits about them.

[Coumarin]

I would have thought that NMA still get paid for every album sold even if the contract has expired, after all the tunes aren't in the public domain..?

I would also have thought that they get paid more for every physical album sold than certain streaming services?

Really, well I own at least one bootleg NMA vinyl album? im sure you do too?

[Master Ray]

I bought one NMA bootleg album back in about 1990... and it was shit.

Although I suppose looking at Youtube clips might count...

[Coumarin]

with a crinkly stick....

that was the interweb back then

[Guillaume]

It seems that FROM HERE last year was NMA's biggest selling album ever with peaks in the German and UK charts...how many cds and vinyls NMA have sold of FROM HERE and WINTER? etc!     

[Viv Savage]

No. It was NMA's highest chart positions. No current charts reflect the amount of sales needed in the 80's - 90's for similar same chart positions today. The abandonment of music file encoding, and subsequent piracy of every song subsequently released, saw to that from the turn of the century onwards...

[Guillaume]

No. It was NMA's highest chart positions.

yes, but maybe in part because the cds and vinyls sales have been decent in these two countries (and also previously "between dog and wolf", "between wine and blood" and "winter") ?
Of course they can't sell  in 2020 over 250 000 cds/vinyls in Germany like it was the case for "Thunder and consolation" and 'Impurity" in the 90's...but i'm still curious to know the numbers of physical copies sold in Germany and UK of the last albums since "Between dog and wolf"..i guess many "old" fans of NMA still like to buy  vinyls and/or cds so if we are 5 000 or 10 000 faithful NMA fans around the world the "physical" sales of the last albums are maybe (more than) decent!