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Topic: The Real Deal Regarding Stones Album Sales and Licks Tour Success Return to archive
07-15-03 05:57 PM
McQueen Ok, I'll bite...

Tsk-tsk to our consistent naysayer backwards blow job for his inane chatter regarding the demise of The Stones and their failing album sales and poor concert success. RUBBISH! Let us take just a quick peek at the facts shall we?

The Stones remain one of the most consistent album sales institutions in the busines. Their 12 gold-certified albums would be enough to substantiate this, but those are just the tip of the proverbial...well anyway, those 12 are also accompanied by 25 platinum-plus certified albums, including nearly 10 MILLION in American album sales in the last decade alone! The longevity of 40 Licks over the last several months has exceeded the expectations of both the band and their business machinery many times over.

Their video catalogue success is nearly as impressive as album sales. With 3 gold certified videos and two platinum certified videos, including the highly successful releases of both Rock and Roll Circus and the remastered Gimme Shelter in the last decade, The Stones clearly remain both popular and relevant by any legitimate musical standard. (ie., not the standard set by our cleary deficient backwards blow job.)

These figures only represent The Stones success in The States. Their success throughout the world remains strong as well, including, despite the apparent assumptions of some in here, England, While Brits do tend to push the sales of dime-a-dozen throw-away music offerings,being even more trend-addictive than their American counterparts, they have remained supportive of The Stones as well, granting them 3 gold certified and 2 platinum-plus albums in recent years, including the quite impressive sales of Forty Licks.

As to the Forty Licks tour being anything but an amazingly artistic and profitable success, oh please. The tour has been doing amazing business AND getting some of their most positive performance reviews in well over a decade. By combining small venue and large venue offerings, The Stones sacrificed some bottom line to a bit of artistic chance. The willingness to take that chance at this stage of a now 40-plus year career speaks volumes to the fact that The Stones are not yet through with this long strange trip, even if that trip elicits idiotic banterings from the likes of backwards blow job. Will this tour be their most financially successful? No, they have been there and done that, over and over again. This time was different. Most fans of music AND The Stones would take that difference any day, for that kind of artist is becoming an increasingly rare event. And make no mistake, The Stones were, are, and will always be, an event.

Oh-and the new album is coming along sooner than later-and methinks it will prove itself a delicious treat for those longing for a back-to-the-basics Stones offering.

To those planning on attending the final Stones Forty Licks dates, bless ya and enjoy!