Top Selling Albums of the 80's and 90's
Garth Brooks and an unfortunate fan..In Sydney, I stumbled upon a book containing a list of the top selling albums for the last two decades. Here's how it looks:
1980-1990
- Thriller - Michael Jackson (29.3m) [US]
- Back in Black - AC/DC (19.1m) [AUS]
- Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen (15.9m) [US]
- Appetite for Destruction - Guns and Roses (15.6m) [US]
- Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (14.2m) [US]
- No Jacket Required - Phil Collins (13.8m) [UK]
- Purple Rain - Prince (13.6m) [US]
- Live / 75-85 - Bruce Springsteen (13.1m) [US]
- Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits (12.9m) [UK]
- Hysteria - Def Leppard (12.6m) [UK]
1990-2000
- Come on Over - Shania Twain (22m) [US]
- The Bodyguard - Whitney Houston (19m) [US]
- Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (19m) [US]
- Cracked Rear View - Hoote & The Blowfish (16m) [US]
- No Fences - Garth Brooks (16m) [US]
- Double Live - Garth Brooks (15m) [US]
- Supernatural - Santana (14.6m [US]
- Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys (13.2m) [US]
- Ropin' the Wind - Garth Brooks (12.8m) [US]
- Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (11.3m) [US]
Whatever happened to good taste in the 90's. I'll happily confess to owning half of the top ten in the 1980's but the 90's list is a pile of rubbish.
Jason at Insomnia Radio recently checked the Top 10 albums of 2005 and it's not looking any better.
MK
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Response: Top Selling Albums of the 80's vs 90'sIt appears that good taste went out the window in the 90's.read more (http://notyourusualbollocks.squarespace.com/journal/2006/1/25/top-selling-albums-of-the-80s-and-90s.html) | digg story (http://digg.com/music/Top_Selling_Albums_of_the_80_s_vs_90_s) -
Response: Jesus Gonzaleshave spent some time converting and tagging all thee 42 hours into mp3. i was wondering if poeple here are interested in it, as I have already spent a lot of time making it IPOD compactable.
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Response: Lita Greyhad a similar problem a while back where i wanted to split large mp3s (live sets) into parts, while there are quite a number of apps out there that can do it, i found most of them to be bloated or they required you to buy it, so i ended up writing my own little app in ruby to do the job and it works like a charm!
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Response: David CopperfieldHave you tried TotalRecorder? I believe it can record pretty much anything you want and output it as MP3.
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Response: Aaron Chwatthave spent some time converting and tagging all thee 42 hours into mp3. i was wondering if poeple here are interested in it, as I have already spent a lot of time making it IPOD compactable.
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Response: Krekor "Kirk" Ohanianhad a similar problem a while back where i wanted to split large mp3s (live sets) into parts, while there are quite a number of apps out there that can do it, i found most of them to be bloated or they required you to buy it, so i ended up writing my own little app in ruby to do the job and it works like a charm!
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Response: John FordOops, in the "cat /Users/tangent/music/iTunes..." paste it took away the back slashes, so disregard the paste.
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Response: Diane Bauerrecently wrote a guide explaining how to convert .ra files to mp3 using only open source software (mplayer and lame) on windows.
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Response: Walter Robert GintyHave you tried TotalRecorder? I believe it can record pretty much anything you want and output it as MP3.
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Response: Gwyilyn FordHmm... Yeah I guess that might work. I'll have to try it out.
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Response: Chick CoreaI use a virtually unknown program called iTunes to merge MP3 files.
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Response: Furnierknow garageband can do essentially what you're asking, maybe sound studio too. That old school classic app SoundApp was amazing and would probably work as well. I know it does work under classic.
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Response: Jesus GonzalesWer Fuller selbst gerne einmal reden hören und sehen will, kann sich Aufnahmen seines legendären 42-stündigen Vortrags Everything I know streamen lassen (die Seite ist allerdings recht häufig nicht zu erreichen).
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Response: George Burnsmight be worth a look -- or MP3 Trimmer, which does more than trim.
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Response: Dabbs GreerWer Fuller selbst gerne einmal reden hören und sehen will, kann sich Aufnahmen seines legendären 42-stündigen Vortrags Everything I know streamen lassen (die Seite ist allerdings recht häufig nicht zu erreichen).
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Response: William Franklin Beedle, Jrknow garageband can do essentially what you're asking, maybe sound studio too. That old school classic app SoundApp was amazing and would probably work as well. I know it does work under classic.
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Response: Andrew DiceWow!! I personally knew Bucky. I was the one who took him to Apple Computer and introduced him to Steve Jobs who gave him a tour of the Cupertino facility.
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Response: Charles Robinsonmight be worth a look -- or MP3 Trimmer, which does more than trim.
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Response: Meade Howard Horton, Jr.How to download Real Audio streams and convert Real Audio to MP3.
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Response: Beverly GarlandWow!! I personally knew Bucky. I was the one who took him to Apple Computer and introduced him to Steve Jobs who gave him a tour of the Cupertino facility.
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Response: Hagler Marvin HaglerTo join songs, try the old DOS command COPY, like this: copy /b song1.mp3 + song2.mp3 + song3.mpg mysongs.mp3. That should work great.
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Response: Woody Allen AllenThe price goes to Restiffbard. The iTunes Applescript does the job exactly the way I wanted it. Thanks a lot for your suggestions though, they will undoubtedly come in handy at some later point in time.
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Response: Truman Streckfus PersonsReplace mp3-*-name.mp3 with the names of your songs (using Terminal, you can just drag and drop the file/names to Terminal and it'll add the name/path). The ">" is the output pipe, and the "joined-songs.mp3" would be the resulting name. You can change this to whatever name you want.
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Response: Earl HollimanYou need the files in the order you want them joined on a CD and on import there is an option to join.Works like a dream.
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Response: Brenda WebbHmm... Yeah I guess that might work. I'll have to try it out.
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The blinding difference in quality between the 80's and 90's is...well, I'm speechless. My question is, what happened within the music industry in less than a decade to turn people into country and pop loving sheep?
Wonder if I'll even have 1 from the 2000-2010 list...
number 2s
Back in Black VS the cocking body gaurd
Appetite vs Hootie and the friggin blow fish
jeeeeezuz christ, what the fuck happened in that decade.... I need to get me a delorian that can clock 88, a body warmer, some luminous Nikes and go back to 1990 and sort that shit out,
Chris 'think mcFly' Erros