Kerry King Quotes

Because record companies do not routinely release sales figures the way film studios do, the weekly charts in trade publications like 'Billboard' provide the best independent measure of record appeal.

No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.

I don't really sell many records.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

Selling a million records used to be a big deal. I guess it's not anymore.

My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating.

It's not about what hits Billboard or how many views you got on a video. It's about copies sold. It's about streams, you know?

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers.

It's harder and harder to sell records now. You've got to give extra value. You've got to give people a reason to go out and buy it rather than burn a friend's copy.

Raoul' sold a respectable 700,000 copies without a hit single. It didn't take off. If you don't sell 8 million albums or 4 million albums again, everybody deems it a big failure.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.