I was reading some random music articles at Wikipedia and came across one that explained how CDs go gold, platinum, multi-platinum or diamond, which lead me to wondering how DT was doing as far as sales are concerned. The DT discography Wikipedia article gives us the position of each album in various countries (most interestingly in the Billboard 200), but those positions are very relative, so I have really no idea how much each album has sold in total. That being said, I know that Images & Words and SFAM have both gone gold (over half a million albums sold) and that BC&SL sold a little over 40000 in its first week.
So I was wondering if anyone out there was better informed. I'm sure any kind of information would be quite interesting, be it first week sales in the US or total sales worldwide.
So we can keep this organized, I'll make a list here and will add the information you bring here:
WDADU -
I&W - around 620000
Awake - around 400000
FII - between 100000 and 150000
SFAM - between 100000 and 150000
SDOIT - between 100000 and 150000
ToT - between 100000 and 150000
Octavarium - between 100000 and 150000
SC - between 100000 and 150000
BC&SL - over 40000 in its first week in the US
ADTOE - (here I was really thinking about pre-orders, if anyone happens to have any (real) numbers)
Total sales = over 10 million worldwide!
(All numbers preceded by "between" or "around" are based on Blob's floppy memory)