Albums sales, from 1984 to 2019/2020

[Guillaume]

Sorry if there was already a thread about it but do you have the numbers for the sales of NMA's albums?

[lfran]

A fairly hazy memory is whispering that T&C reached gold disc status in the UK. Really unsure about this, though, and also no idea how many sales this represented at the time.

[Stoney]

I seem to recall a gold disc for Thunder in Studio Bijoux. Tho' wasn't having the best day having just written my car off 15 minutes before I got there...........

[BlackCountryMaggiD]

I seem to recall a gold disc for Thunder in Studio Bijoux. Tho' wasn't having the best day having just written my car off 15 minutes before I got there...........

I don't know about sales but I know that Joolz got a Gold Disc from EMI for her cover art for T&C.

[lfran]

Just googled and gold disc status was awarded for sales of 100,000 in the UK.

[Guillaume]

Just googled and gold disc status was awarded for sales of 100,000 in the UK.

do you have the link on Google?

[lupus225]

As far as I remember, the band were awarded with a golden record for 250.000 copies of T&C sold in Germany in 1998...better late than never

[lfran]

do you have the link on Google?

Sorry, Guillaume, I was just checking how many copies of any album needed to be sold to be awarded a gold disc, don't have a specific link for T&C sales.

[Guillaume]

As far as I remember, the band were awarded with a golden record for 250.000 copies of T&C sold in Germany in 1998.

In  the booklet of the "New Model Army the collection" Emi cd released in 2004:

"NMA have undertaken an eventful 24-years journey that has seen them sell millions of records at home and become huge in Germany"

"Millions of records" in the UK?

About "Thunder and consolation":

"A top 20 album in Britain, it also spawned three U.K. Top 40 singles and sold over 250.000 in Germany"




 
It seems that "Thunder and consolation" and "Impurity" were NMA's best selling albums in the UK and Germany (and worldwide?)
I guess that the EMI years from "No rest for the wicked" to "Raw Melody men" included were the most commercially successful times for the band, but if i remember well "the love of hopeless causes" also did pretty good in the UK charts.

[Mike]

I wouldn't worry too much about what EMI put on the sleeves of bands no longer signed to them. They don't.

[Guillaume]

up...for the last album!

According to this link :

http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/new%20model%20army/

"Thunder and consolation", "No rest for the wicked", "The love of Hopeless causes" and "Impurity" were NMA's best selling albums in the UK.

[peternotbaldyet]

So after 34 years they have the highest placed album of their career in the UK album chart. Blimey!

[Guillaume]

According to the Spiral Scratch issue 13 from February 1990:
"The excellent GHOST OF CAIN selling 25.000 in 1987 in both Britain and Germany (GOC's LP was released in September 1986 and the GOC's CD was released in April 1987)

THUNDER AND CONSOLATION:

"Early versions of the LP came in an embossed sleeve and managed to sell 35.000 copies in its 3 three weeks of release, proving NMA's staying power and overall popularity."

[Master Ray]

I'm also curious about how many albums NMA have sold, purely to see how it relates to other bands of their era...obviously, how much money they've made is nobody's business but their own...

[Guillaume]

I remember Robert Heaton saying in this August 1991 issue of french magazine Best that "Impurity" sold over 160 000 copies in Germany and 6 000 only in France!