Mat Kearney Quotes

I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

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

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

The 'Frampton' album sold better than all of the other solo records that I'd had, put together. It was over 300,000 copies, so that was a good signal that we were poised for my first gold record.

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.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

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

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

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.

Sometimes when you have a record out, you think you're going to go in at No. 1 but you go in at No. 8. So your second record has to be better. That's how I treat it.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

Our first album sold a million copies. Because we had such a big hit on the first album, it's always like, 'You can't top the first album.'

Those 'Pledge' records did good for me, and they're the foundation that this Killer Mike is built on, but I was judging myself on physical sales and didn't understand that music sales were declining overall.

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.