Rem how many albums

Please note country-specific numbers may miss sales of a few minor releases, although totals are complete. So, after checking all the figures, how many overall equivalent album sales has each album by R. Well, at this point we hardly need to add up all of the figures defined in this article!

In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

See where the artist ranks among remaining singers. Out of Time closes counts on nearly 23 million equivalent album sales. Automatic for the People is a very strong runner up, now over 18 million in total sales. Ironically, while 23 million is only good enough to be 8th inside the list, Automatic at 18 million features at 2 with a comfortable margin among the biggest albums. Only Bodyguard tops it. If these two albums are the clear leaders among their catalog, we can define R.

Both Document and Monster are close to 10 million units. Green is the weakest effort from these years but still moved 5. Outside of their top 5 follows New Adventures in Hi-Fi at 4 million, while nearly all their remaining albums are at With total career sales of It will be much longer until they hit million yet. The list is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each song.

Therefore, these figures are not merged units of singles formats. Coupled with their total sales, it translates into an ASR score of It is similar to the score of artists like Green Day and Sting. The ranking of all artists studied so far is available too at this link. To improve your navigation we created several amazing cross-artists lists posted inside the CSPC: Data Collector article. Click on it to see the full listing of all CSPC results compiled so far!

To put figures from this article into perspective, click on the images below to reach career breakdowns of similar artists:. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Have they sold so little in France? I did not expect it given the musical offer and the market in question. Of course, my point was that, like R.

Michael Jackson 2. Madonna 3. Carpenters 5. Michael Jackson — 24m 2. Madonna — 23m 3. Meat Loaf — 12m 5. Carpenters — 12m? They all had much more success in the UK than in the US, how could you possibly argue against that?

How do you measure much more? Hi all! I feel like all of you are right. Martin and Clockingbell are correct too as the top 5 posted feels very arbitrary.

Elton John was more successful than Led Zeppelin in the 70s, in the US, more 1 albums, more weeks at 1, obviously more hit singles and he probably sold more. No surprise that Losing My Religion is a monster on streaming. Good job team! As expected great results from 1 of my fave band. Kudos REM. Thanks Admin. Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Reply to Jsak. Reply to Analord. Reply to zago. It would have been one of the great tragedies in music history if R.

If the R. Not quite the glory days, but a victory nonetheless. And so to one of the most divisive records in R. It showed that the band could court the mainstream without losing the essence of what made them so unique in the first place. Recorded at soundchecks and in mobile studios during and shortly after the tour that very nearly killed R. But one thing has always been certain: If there is such a thing as an alternative band, R.

Formed out of the burgeoning Athens, Ga. After a decade of tireless touring and releasing an album nearly every year, R. They continued to experiment with their sound through the '90s until drummer Berry left the band in two years after suffering a brain aneurysm onstage.

The remaining members continued as a trio, using Berry's departure as an opportunity to explore more disparate sounds.