I must ask what happened to this. I would kill for record sales figures, they must exist somewhere in billboards records or something, I just can never find them
To see all the sales figures you want for any album in existence on demand, it requires paying fees to companies like Billboard, RIAA, Soundscan, etc. Unless you have some creative workarounds.
I was once in a position where I had login access to pretty much anything I wanted, because I was working somewhere or for someone who was paying the fees to the right companies and it was just a matter of heading to a web site and logging in to an account.
I had access to RIAA gold/platinum figures & also SoundScan data, which are two different things.
SoundScan was freaking cool because you could look at how an album was doing week to week.
AC/DC released
Ballbreaker in 1995, right?
If I ever got a notion in my head at 2:37 in the morning to go online and see how many copies
Ballbreaker sold strictly between August 3rd and August 9th of 2002, I was able to scratch that itch.
What happened to that? My station ran out of "disposable" money. Pretty cut-and-dry.