Imagine Dragons has sold Diamond. How?
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Topic: Imagine Dragons has sold Diamond. How?
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: Imagine Dragons has sold Diamond. How?
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 09:05
| The (indie style) American rock group Imagine Dragons has sold Diamond (10, 000,000 copies or 5x Platinum) on their last album titled Radioactive, as certified by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RRIA). If the recording industry is dead due to pirating, then how was this possible? |
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 09:15
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Because based on the pop-rock scene on FM, they must be the only thing going that is good. I assume vinyl sales also might be helping.... -------------   
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Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 09:32
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RIAA awards diamond plaques to singles and albums that reach 10x platinum status. That once was the equivalent of selling 10 million songs or albums, but has changed since RIAA began incorporating streaming from YouTube, Spotify and others. "Radioactive" has sold 7.7 million tracks, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and the band's record label, Interscope Records, said the song has been streamed more than 366 million times. ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 09:48
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Imagine that !! This is my Kingdom Come, and it's gone ............. Anything I can't stand, will go platinum, it's coming............... 
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 09:51
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At they're not a boy band, Tom.At least, I don't think they are.
 hmm. |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 10:04
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Any group of guys that have sold that many albums and songs after the 1990's is basically boy bands. Even if they write their own songs, producers make sure their songs are radio ready. Even if they play their own instruments, they aren't in the group because they are good at their instruments. They are in the group because they can sell. Hell, even metal does it. A kind gentleman I know in Tennessee played bass on several albums down there but they wouldn't let him even become the touring bassist because he refused to grow out a beard or get tattoos. Yeap. Everything that makes money is a calculated conspiracy to manipulate young minds into demanding money from their parents for it. All groups that I dislike the most sell the most records. That's pretty much been the case since I started caring about music more than anything. ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 10:05
Hot damn, you're right - not a 'boy band'  . Oooh, the risks some folks take..........Ninja'd by a Smurph  .........still not a true 'boy band' but utter sh*te, nevertheless........ |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 10:06
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Smurph wrote:Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 10:12
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We all listen to 'boy bands' .....!! Yes are a boy band, Genesis are a boy band (at least, around 1970) - Renaissance are NOT, neither is Magenta .
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 10:15
| ^Hmm, Girl bands don't get enough love! |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 10:19
| I'll be a groupie for a girl band any day !!!! |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 12:35
I don't even know what they sound like ...only heard the name a few times. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 14:04
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^Ah, they must be a boy band then!
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 14:12
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Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 14:36
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Cringe-mode activate. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 14:47
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^You sound like you need air. Why don't you throw a rock and break a window.
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Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 17:31
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Hey man, they just don't impress me that's all. Just a joke.
An honest guess is that they must've brought something new to the table. However looking at today's industry that may not be the case. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 17:47
| ^Sorry bro, I forgot the laugh emitcon. My bad. |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 17:56
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It's probably more my fault for taking it too personally anyway so..... truce. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 20:35
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-lost-girls/ This article says everything you need to know about girl bands that sell records. ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: July 10 2015 at 20:35
Hahah yea I didn't mean to sound so grumpy there. I was pretty grumpy.  ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |