Everything is turning to gold


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Everything is turning to gold


Record sales of the Rolling Stones - individual titles

All figures are in millions of copies sold.
Sales figures for the same title:
 vinyls, cassettes, CD:s and tapes are added together
 singles: Sales of 7", 12", MC:s and CD:s are added together (same A-side)
 singles with the same A-side and different B-sides are added together
Please remember that some figures are almost certainly old and inaccurate.
 Some figures could be false.
For US gold albums, "sales of 500,000 copies" was added as a criteria
 on Jan. 1, 1975. Before that, all gold album awards in US should have
 sales of $1,000,000.

Stones' total worldwide sales were said to exceed 200 million copies in 1990.

Additions and corrections are always welcome.

Aftermath

1 US, 0.2 GB

Angie (single)

1.2 Europe, 1 US

It was reported in 1982 that this was Stones best-selling single ever in Europe

As Tears Go By (single)

1 ww

Beggars Banquet

2 US, 0.05 CA

Between the Buttons

1 US

Big Hits

5 ww, 2 US, 0.05 CA

Black and Blue

1 US, 0.05 CA, 0.025 YU

Bridges to Babylon

3 ww, 1.2 US, 0.7 DE, 0.1 CA, 0.09 IT, 0.06 GB, 0.033 NO, 0.025 DK

Brown Sugar (single)

1 ww, 0.25 GB

Carol (single)

0.25 ww

Dancing in the Street (Jagger and David Bowie single)

1 ww, 0.687 GB

Mick's fastest-selling single ever in the UK

Dandelion see We Love You/Dandelion (single)

December's Children

1 ww

Dirty Work

1 US, 0.55 Europe, 0.25 west DE, 0.1 CA, 0.1 FR, 0.1 GB, 0.07 AU, 0.025 NL, 0.025 CH, 0.016 FI

Reportedly sold more in Europe than Tattoo You

double compilation album released in 1992, TV-advertised

0.2 FR

Emotional Rescue

2 ww, 1 US, 0.2 GB, 0.2 west DE, 0.1 ES

England's Newest Hitmakers

0.5 US

Exile on Main St.

3.5 ww, 1.2 US, 0.45 GB

5 x 5 (EP)

0.5 ww, 0.25 GB

Flashpoint

0.5 US

Fortune Teller (single)

0.25 ww

Get Off of My Cloud (single)

2 ww, 0.5 west DE, 0.3 GB

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!

1 US, 0.05 CA

Goats Head Soup

0.25 west DE, 0.1 CA

Got Live If You Want It! (EP)

0.5 ww, 0.25 GB

Got Live If You Want It!

1 ww

Harlem Shuffle (single)

0.05 CA

Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in the Shadow? (single)

1 ww

Heart of Stone (single)

1 ww

Honky Tonk Women (single)

2 US, 0.4 GB

Hot Rocks 1964-1971

6 US, 0.1 GB, 0.03 AU

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (single)

5 ww, 1.5 US, 0.6 GB, 0.5 west DE, 0.1 NL

I Wanna Be Your Man (single)

0.25 ww

I'm Moving On (single)

0.25 ww

It's All Over Now (single)

1 ww, 0.3 GB

It's Only Rock'n Roll

0.1 CA

Jump Back-the Best of

0.3 GB, 0.12 AR

Jumpin' Jack Flash (single)

2 ww, 1 GB and US together, more than 0.75 US

Lady Jane (single)

0.25 ww

The Last Time (single)

2 ww, 0.7 GB

Let It Bleed

2.5 US, 0.2 GB

Let's Spend the Night Together/Ruby Tuesday (single)

2 ww, 1 US, 0.25 GB

Little Red Rooster (single)

1 ww, 0.25 GB

Love You Live

0.5 US, 0.1 west DE

Made in the Shade

0.5 US, 0.05 CA

Miss You (single)

1 US, 0.25 GB

The biggest-selling twelve inch, all artists counted, for Atlantic USA up to that time

More Hot Rocks

1 ww

Mother's Little Helper (single)

1 ww

19th Nervous Breakdown (single)

2 ww, 0.25 GB

No Security

0.025 AT

No. 2

0.5 ww, 0.4 GB

Not Fade Away (single)

0.5 ww, 0.25 GB, 0.2 FR

Stones first award, a silver disc from France

Now!

0.5 US

Out of Our Heads

1 US

Paint It Black (single)

2 ww, 0.3 GB

Primitive Cool (Jagger)

0.05 CA

Rock n Roll Circus soundtrack

Pressings were almost 1 ww, of which 0.35 were outside North America

Rolled Gold

0.2 GB

The Rolling Stones (EP)

0.25 ww

The Rolling Stones

0.5 ww, 0.2 GB

Ruby Tuesday see Let's Spend the Night Together/Ruby Tuesday (single)

Satisfaction see (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (single)

She's a Rainbow (single)

1 ww

She's the Boss (Jagger)

2 ww, 1 US, 0.1 CA, 0.07 AU, 0.06 GB

Singles Collection-the London Years

0.333334 US, 0.05 CA

Some Girls

8 ww, 4 US, 0.3 west DE, 0.2 GB, 0.1 CA, 0.1 ES, 0.1 IT, 0.075 NZ, 0.015 GR

State of Shock (Jagger and Jacksons single)

1 US

Steel Wheels

9 ww, 3.4 US, 0.3 CA, 0.25 west DE, 0.2 IT, 0.17 JP, 0.1 GB, 0.07 AU, 0.03 CZ, 0.025 FI

Sticky Fingers

2.5 US, 0.25 west DE, 0.2 GB, 0.1 CA

Still Life

0.5 US, 0.1 GB, 0.03 NL

Street Fighting Man (single)

0.5 ww

Stripped

3.5 ww, 1 US, 1 Europe, 0.25 DE, 0.2 IT, 0.1 CA, 0.1 FR, 0.1 JP, 0.1 GB, 0.06 AR, 0.055 NO, 0.05 ES, 0.05 NL, 0.035 AU, 0.025 AT, 0.025 CH, 0.015 BE, 0.01 HK, 0.01 NZ, 0.0075 IR

Sucking in the Seventies

0.5 US

Talk Is Cheap (Richards)

almost 2 ww, 0.5 US, 0.05 CA

Tattoo You

7 ww, 3 US, 0.225 AU, 0.2 GB, 0.2 west DE, 0.1 ES, 0.05 YU

Tell Me (single)

0.5 ww

Their Satanic Majesties Request

1 ww

Through the Past Darkly

1 US

Time Is on My Side (single-studio version)

1 ww

12 x 5

0.5 US

Under the Boardwalk (single)

0.5 ww

Undercover

2 ww, 1 US, 0.1 GB

Voodoo Lounge

8 ww, 2.5 US, 0.75 DE, 0.3 CA, 0.25 IT, 0.12 AR, 0.1 FR, 0.1 JP, 0.1 GB, 0.05 ES, 0.05 NL, 0.033 NO, 0.03 AU, 0.025 AT, 0.025 CH, 0.015 BE, 0.014 FI, 0.01 NZ

Walking the Dog (single)

0.5 ww

Wandering Spirit (Jagger)

1.676.154 outside US, 0.5 US, 0.25 DE, 0.002 (one store-chain only) FI

We Love You/Dandelion (single)

2 ww, 0.25 GB

AR = Argentina, AT = Austria, AU = Australia, BE = Belgium, CA = Canada, CH = Switzerland, CZ = Czechoslovakia, DE = Germany, ES = Spain, FI = Finland, FR = France, GB = United Kingdom, GR = Greece, HK = Hong Kong, IT = Italy, JP = Japan, NL = Netherlands, NO = Norway, NZ = New Zealand, US = United States, YU = Yugoslavia, ww = worldwide

Have fun!

Last updated 7 November 1998 by Jens Backlund.