Doors Album Sales?

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I have seen a lot of figures bandied about but never seen anything definitive......I would estimate around 50 or so million albums by The Doors have been sold across the world which is a lot but not as many as some less talented crap I could name.

The Doors never did much chartwise here in the UK but have sold steadily year in year out since the mid seventies. The Doors debut album never even charted here niether did Strange Days and it was not until 1968 that a Doors album made the charts.
1991 was without doubt the best year for The Doors here as the movie sent the country Doors daft.
I remember seein a music chart with 5 Doors related albums in the top 75.
Best Of The Doors #17, Movie Soundtrack #11,LA Woman #73, The Doors #43 and In Concert #24.......bloody amazing.
All the Doors albums went Gold in the US during Jim's life and all are probably several times Platinum by now. The Best Ofs sell really well and thats why there are so damn many of them.......
Wierd Scenes Inside The Goldmine sold well here making #50 in 1972 which was not bad for a compilation album of a band not popular here and
The Doors Greatest Hits sold by the truckload in 1980 on the back of the NOHGOA book and Apocalypse Now.
Chart success is never a yardstick of musical talent but its a shame that something about The Doors rubbed so many people up the wrong way and they never achieved the acolades that so much rubbish in the music field get judged by.......

[jym]

Well, I've bought all the albums at least twice, the vinyl & then changed over to CD, also remember buying WTFS & SP parade on tape cassette before they got eaten in the cars tape deck.

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I dare not think how many times I have bought the first 6 Doors albums......I had all the original vinyl copies and bought better ones several times.....I have had at least half a dozen CD versions....all so Ray can pay his gas bill

[ensenada]

most of my original cds have all worn down and jump like fuck now, so i will need to buy some more before long. i general play copies in the car to save them, shoulda done that a while back mind you.

[ensenada]

most of my doors albums skip like fook now due to overuse i will need to get myself some new uns before long.
well if the music industry never really recognised the doors then or now for what they are then fuck em! they are a bunch of hypocrital tossers who suck up to all the manufactured crap that sells albums by the shit load because the enitire popultaion of 12 year old ggirls buy their shit. bollox to em!

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This is an interesting little aside......in my local ASDA they have been selling LA Woman and The Best Of The Doors in their music/video department since before Xmas 2005 for £5 and as its my corner shop I go in everyday to buy a paper and always have a wander......I have noticed that the two albums have been selling well there since last December at one stage there were a dozen or more of each album but most times their are around six or eight and they dissapear regularly and reappear so are obviously selling. Now Thornaby is hardly a hot bed of The Doors but the albums are selling well near me....the HMVs in Middlesbrough and Stockton always have a decent selection of Doors albums and they regularly are depleted and replenished. Around here a copy of one of the first 6 Doors album goes from anything from 5 to 8 pounds which is quite cheap.......I have not seen the BMR stuff in the racks around here but Hollywood Bowl is a good seller here on Teesside.
So its evident that sales of Doors albums are indeed still healthy.....whats the sales like in your area?

[eressie]

admin said:

Around here a copy of one of the first 6 Doors album goes from anything from 5 to 8 pounds which is quite cheap

So its evident that sales of Doors albums are indeed still healthy.....whats the sales like in your area?

The vinyl albums in the second hand record shops here are about 275-300 SEK which is about 30 Euro. The CD:s are hard to find, but are about 80-170 SEK (8-18 Euro).

[darkstar]

West Fall Weekly News
(one of many newspapers that released this article that originated at Billboard.)

Doors Mark 40th Anniversary With Reissues, Deals
Staff and agencies
12 April, 2006

By Melinda Newman

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - In his book "Riders on the Storm," Doors drummer John Densmore writes, "As long as there‘s young people, they can look to Jim to help them cut the umbilical chord."

But even Densmore is surprised that the Los Angeles band and its iconic leader, Jim Morrison, who died in 1971, have such potent appeal to recent generations. After all, it has been almost 40 years since Elektra released the quartet‘s first album in January 1967.

"I‘m astounded," he says. "There must be some magic that was captured in a garage in Venice (Calif.)

"We‘ve had our disputes," Densmore says of his well-publicized differences with fellow surviving Doors Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger , "but I‘m honored that whatever came through us, that was bigger than us. If each generation seems to glean some inspiration from that, I‘m available."

Densmore and his bandmates will have many demands on their time over the next few years as their management team rolls out a 40th anniversary campaign with the intention to appeal to fans old and new.

"We‘re not trying to remake them or spin the Doors, just expose them to the next generation," Doors manager Jeff Jampol says. He has partnered with the Firm, which represents the Doors for licensing and assists in other management issues.

The Doors‘ appeal to younger generations could be due to the band being frozen in its prime, says the Firm‘s Jeff Rabhan.

"(The Doors) were not able to grow old in front of the eyes of the world like the Stones (or) the Who. The Doors that people know are forever young, and the image of Morrison is that of young rock god," he says. "With that image in hand, and the legacy being what it is, our entire outreach is simple exposure and basic education as the history will sell itself."

That means spreading word to the younger market through remixes, videogames, high-end clothing and online and mobile platforms. Meanwhile, the older, existing audience will be targeted through coffee-table books, boxed sets featuring 5.1 surround-sound versions of the group‘s first six studio albums and more.

An interactive experience in Las Vegas, a touring memorabilia attraction and a filmed documentary are intended to appeal to all fans.

Naturally, a rollout of the Doors‘ studio albums also plays into the birthday plans. By September, Rhino/Elektra will delete the existing Doors‘ catalog to make way for a 12-disc boxed set, priced at $149.98. The fall release will include the Doors‘ first six studio albums remastered with bonus tracks and paired with six DVDs featuring 5.1 remixes of the studio albums and bonus material. There will also be a vinyl boxed set of the first six albums.

In January 2007, the studio albums will individually come out as double discs with the remastered original and the 5.1 DVD version.

As early as May, a deal with merchandise services company Music Today will allow Doors fans to go to the band‘s Web site and create their own virtual boxed sets, selecting from previously unreleased live tunes.

The Doors‘ catalog has already been licensed for mobile downloads, ringtones and ringbacks.

The Doors‘ merchandise business is already soaring. Dell Furano, CEO of merchandise company Signatures Network, says sales have boomed since the introduction of new lines over the last few years. "In 2005, we probably sold close to $8 million in Doors shirts and apparel at retail. It was $2 million in 2003."

Furano says the Doors are at the top of the merchandise heap alongside such acts as the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

It has not hurt that celebrities like Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson have been photographed wearing Doors merchandise. "The amount of shirts we‘re selling to preteens and teenagers is staggering," Furano says.

Hilton and friends are likely buying from a high-end Doors line developed two years ago by Trunk Ltd. in partnership with Signatures. The line is sold through stores like Fred Segal, Barney‘s, Kitson and Nordstrom.

"The first piece, the Jim Morrison Lizard King image on one of our classic shirts, became one of our top sellers overnight," Trunk Ltd. founder and creative director Brad Beckerman says. He says teens respond to Morrison‘s "irreverence."

Signatures will launch another high-end line, 5:1, this fall. Last year, Signatures introduced a mainstream line, Love Street, which is carried in stores like Target, Wal-Mart and Hot Topic.

Furano expects the 40th anniversary activities to lift merchandise sales at least another 25% and has several new items planned.

For the 40th, Trunk designed a limited edition T-shirt featuring Blondie‘s Deborah Harry and Morrison, touting the new Blondie vs. the Doors mash-up "Rapture/Riders." The tune is featured on Blondie‘s new EMI greatest hits set.

ALL THIS AND VEGAS, TOO

But wait, there‘s more.

The Doors are planning an interactive attraction that will open in Las Vegas in 2008. Jampol says video director Jake Nava, who is working on the project, describes it as "a one-hour acid trip, but you don‘t come down."

"You won‘t see the Rockettes kicking their legs up in this show, I can assure you," Rabhan adds, noting management is in talks with several casinos to house the show. Sponsors, who "understand the deep-rooted, philosophical beliefs of this band toward the world" are being targeted.

There will also be a traveling Doors memorabilia museum and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will feature the Doors in a major, yearlong exhibit starting April 2007. (The group was inducted into the Hall in 1993.)

A slate of coffee-table books will accompany the 40th anniversary, including "The Doors by the Doors with Ben Fong-Torres," out in November; and "Jim Morrison: Treasures," by Rock Hall curator Jim Henke, due in 2007.

A Doors documentary directed by two-time Academy Award winner Bill Guttentag will hit theaters by year‘s end. The film includes new interviews with the band and Morrison‘s family.

There are also plans to develop a multinight TV special for summer 2007 called "Six Nights, Six Years, Six Records." Each night will highlight a Doors studio album.

While the remaining members have had their spats -- Densmore and the Morrison estate won a 2003 lawsuit that prohibits Manzarek and Krieger from using the Doors name while touring ("The Doors are Ray, Robbie, Jim and John," Densmore says) -- they all plan to promote the new projects, although it remains to be seen if they‘ll do so together.

"The three of them are bonded brothers," Jampol says. "They‘ve had disagreements over a side issue, they‘re trying to sort that out ... (but) they‘ve never let it stand in the way of letting the legacy move forward."

www.newsone.ca/westfallweeklynews/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=174921

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Once again the best information comes from a sourt case. This one when Ronnie Haran (Mellen) claimed she had been promised a cut of The Doors from Jac.

Billboard
December 18 1971

‘DOORS SOLD 4,190,457 ALBUMS’: COURT REPORT

Los Angeles: The Doors have sold a total of 4,190,457 albums domestically since their first LP, The Doors was released in 1967, according to a recent report made in U.S. District Federal Court by attorneys representing Elektra President, Jac Holzman. Holzman is being sued for money due by onetime promotion representative Ronnie Mellen who claims that she brought The Doors and Holzman together in 1966, while she was acting as promotion girl for the late Jim Morrison’s quartet, when they worked a gig at the Whisky A Go Go here.

The report further states that The Doors have sold 365,209 tapes on all configurations. Their total single sales are now 7,750,642 as of the report.

Biggest album was their first, The Doors which is reported to have sold 1,234,919 copies. Biggest single came out of that first LP, Light My Fire which sold 927,140 copies.

Suit alleges that Holzman made a verbal agreement with Miss Mellen offering her continuing cut on Doors’ royalties, while Holzman counter suit claims that she was promised 1 cent per copy on the first album.


4.2 million albums just in the US by 1971.
Think about that and multiply it by the rest of the world and factor in the Stone movie, NOHGOA, Apocalypse Now and various anniversaries.
Interesting stuff.

Jim & Pam get sued by The Doors:when dead