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Originally posted by torcan torcan wrote:

Just out of curiosity, didn't record companies keep records of how many singles (and albums) were pressed/shipped/sold?


Ha. In 2006, an intern from Atlantic emailed me and asked if I could supply him with complete discographies of 12" singles released on Atlantic, Elektra, Warner Brothers, Tommy Boy, Cold Chillin' and Sugarhill.

So no, I get the impression most labels were just living in the moment. Their job was to make and sell records, not help chart/discography nerds and librarians of the future.

Right around the time the records were made & sold, sure, someone had that info. But I think most of those filing cabinets were emptied long ago... especially if any of it might be incriminating.

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Originally posted by mjb50 mjb50 wrote:

Originally posted by torcan torcan wrote:

Just out of curiosity,
didn't record companies keep records of how many singles
(and albums) were pressed/shipped/sold?


Ha. In 2006, an intern from Atlantic emailed me and asked
if I could supply him with complete discographies of 12"
singles released on Atlantic, Elektra, Warner Brothers,
Tommy Boy, Cold Chillin' and Sugarhill.

So no, I get the impression most labels were just living
in the moment. Their job was to make and sell records,
not help chart/discography nerds and librarians of the
future.

Right around the time the records were made & sold, sure,
someone had that info. But I think most of those filing
cabinets were emptied long ago... especially if any of it
might be incriminating.


OK. Along the same lines, how exactly were gold and
platinum awards calculated? I know the record company
had to pay a fee and request the RIAA to audit the
numbers to determine if it actually sold 500,000 or
1,000,000 copies, right? Exactly what did they have to
submit?

Anyone know exactly how it worked?
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Originally posted by mjb50 mjb50 wrote:

Right around the time the records were made & sold, sure, someone had that info. But I think most of those filing
cabinets were emptied long ago... especially if any of it might be incriminating.


And let's not forget that the number of copies pressed/shipped does not always equal the number of copies sold. Lots of stuff went
into cutout bins, to salvage stores or into the dumpster.
I recall seeing ads in Billboard back in the early 70s for LPs I'd never even heard of that "shipped platinum".
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