Ross Viner wrote:
[Tara and Bruce wrote:]
Yes, Oprah mentioned that Sting sold 40 million albums with The Police and another 45 million as a solo artist. Also, Sting played EBYT and Roxanne.
I do think it noteworthy, that the Police sold most of their over the span of 6 years. Sting as a solo artist, has had 18 years.
The raw numbers in themselves mean relatively little. I'd like to see a proper graph of sales versus time progression, to see at which point Sting started selling more than the Police. I'd also be interested to see how the "Sting & the Police" compilations were counted. There's a whole bunch more stuff than can be said about Sting vs. The Police (I mean this in a comparative sense, and I don't mean to imply any sense of antagonism), but if people are going to compare Stings solo with The Police, then I'd like them to restrict to recent times. It would be genuinely interesting to work out which songs in a live set got the greatest audience reaction, Sting or Police songs; hell, I'd be interested in seeing the figures for back-catalogue sales, assuming we had a year where the figures weren't sullied by re-issues and other promotional gambits. Sam -- Home page: http://www.illuminated.co.uk/