Sales Figures Quotes

I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.

I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.

I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.

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.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

The Wii had sold a hundred million units globally; the Wii U did not have that same level of success.

We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.

The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.

I've never been platinum. I've never sold out an arena. I've never been on an arena tour.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

I didn't have huge expectations for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' My previous album, 'Frampton,' had sold about 300,000 copies - a decent amount but not mind-blowing. There was talk at the label that maybe the live record could go gold. I was hoping we could do it, but I wasn't sure.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

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.

The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable.

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

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

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.

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson.

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

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