How Many Records Have Opeth Sold To Date?

[Napalmdeath92]

Here are some Soundscan figures for albums sold (this is in the US only) :

as at June 27th 2005 - I have seen more recent figures I think from around the Gigantour in 2006 but those are not still available ... so add a few thousand to these.

Orchid (1995): 22,306
Morningrise (1996): 23,332
My Arms, Your Hearse (1998): 28,867
Still Life (1999): 23,377
Blackwater Park (2001): 63,251
Deliverance (2002): 47,510
Damnation (2003): 49,951

also "Ghost Reveries" has sold around 90,000 copies as of quite recently.
um, 2000 first week sales for the Roundhouse Tapes, don't have any other figures

and Watershed has sold around 34,000 so far ...

so we could estimate about 450,000 maybe 500,000 total US sales.
possibly double that for a worldwide figure? so they could have sold about a million in total!

sounds about right to me man.
I am going to go buy the 2 remaining Opeth albums I dont own haha. My arms, your hearse, and the roundhouse tapes. I NEED. lol.

 

[Stilgar]

Does anyone besides Opeth fanboys have all the albums?

I don't have The Roundhouse Tapes cd (waiting for the DVD). Does that make me a non fanboy?

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

Owning them all is not insane. If you have the money, why the hell not buy them all?

Exactly, I own the discography of a fair few bands Opeth included, and some of them have more albums than Opeth do.

 

[Stilgar]

Exactly, I own the discography of a fair few bands Opeth included, and some of them have more albums than Opeth do.

Same here. And buying them over a long timespan, doesn't hurt the wallet that much.

 

[Wander]

Here are some Soundscan figures for albums sold (this is in the US only) :

as at June 27th 2005 - I have seen more recent figures I think from around the Gigantour in 2006 but those are not still available ... so add a few thousand to these.

Orchid (1995): 22,306
Morningrise (1996): 23,332
My Arms, Your Hearse (1998): 28,867
Still Life (1999): 23,377
Blackwater Park (2001): 63,251
Deliverance (2002): 47,510
Damnation (2003): 49,951

also "Ghost Reveries" has sold around 90,000 copies as of quite recently.
um, 2000 first week sales for the Roundhouse Tapes, don't have any other figures

and Watershed has sold around 34,000 so far ...

so we could estimate about 450,000 maybe 500,000 total US sales.
possibly double that for a worldwide figure? so they could have sold about a million in total!

Well, after seeing those numbers, I belive 1 million could actually be true after all.

I actually found some of those figures too but I thought they were world-wide... So yeah, my estimation was actually just for U.S sales (But it WAS close to truth).

So close to 1 million records sold by Opeth!

 

[Lapazeus]

I think it's safe to say that, at any rate, the next album will make Opeth break the one million copy limit.

 

[Requiem960]

My guess lies somewhere between, "more than one and less than infinity."

 

[Hedon-]

im proud to say they just sold another ghost reveries copy today