World of Weird Al Yankovic

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:01 pm**

Dang. I'd think there were at least 50,000 Al fans out there who would get themselves a copy. How do you find out the stats for record sales?

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:04 pm**

I thought it was 500,000 for a CD, not 50,000...

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:13 pm**

It is 500,000 or half a million.

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:17 pm**

Al's #27 fan @ Jun 22 2006, 11:04 AM wrote: I thought it was 500,000 for a CD, not 50,000...

You're right. An album needs to sell 500,000 copies to go Gold and 1,000,000 copies to go Platinum.

And of course, these figures are for the United States only. The requirements are different in other countries.

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:31 pm**

I will defend Tuck by saying that a dvd only needs to sell 50,000 copies to go gold. Maybe that's what he was thinking of.

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:38 pm**

Weirdalfreak27 @ Jun 22 2006, 10:01 AM wrote: How do you find out the stats for record sales?

One way is to go to RIAA for the official list of what has gone Gold and what has gone Platinum. They don't give you specific sales figures though.

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:36 pm**

algonacchick @ Jun 22 2006, 05:31 PM wrote: I will defend Tuck by saying that a dvd only needs to sell 50,000 copies to go gold. Maybe that's what he was thinking of.

Oops, yep. That is what I was thinking. Thanks!

Still, I'm sure that out of however many billion people in the United States, I figure at least 500,000 of 'em are Al fans!

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:03 pm**

Well, the US population is closer to 300 million, which would mean that it would take about one in every 600 people to buy a copy to make it go gold...which isn't that easy to do.

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:30 pm**

That makes it sound so hard!

I mean ... ONE out of 600! I guess it just feels like there would be at least one out of every 600 people who is an Al fan. Enough so that they'd buy the record.

Posted: **Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:32 am**

Well, just think, if you buy two copies of an album, you're doing the work of another 600 people, at very little trouble and expense to yourself (relatively speaking). Such a deal!

I played the MP3 of You're Pitiful softly in the office again today, and a coworker (who hadn't been around when I first shared it) said, "That's funny; it almost sounds like "You're pitiful!"

Another testimony to Al's ability to mimic an original.