Well...if you'd like to compare this album to Maladjusted it's well on it's way to surpassing it....Maladjusted sold just 86,000 copies in the U.S. Not much else elsewhere....Vauxhall went gold in the U.S. 500,000 copies....Your Arsenal came close to Gold as it reached as high as 21 on the U.S. charts (where it stayed for a month or two) and Bon a Drag went gold in the U.S. too....I suspect Kill Uncle and Viva Hate came close also. Sorry but that's all the info I have.
> SO FAR MORRISSEY HAS ONLY RECIEVED 3 CERTIFIED GOLD RECORDS FROM THE RIAA
-MORRISSEY (HULMERIST) VIDEO GOLD CERT. DATE 01/18/91 "500,000"+
-MORRISSEY (VIVA HATE) ALBUM GOLD CERT. DATE 11/16/93 "500,000"+
-MORRISSEY (BONA DRAG) ALBUM GOLD CERT. DATE 06/12/00 "500,000"+
AND HOPEFULLY MOZ' NEW ALBUM WILL GO GOLD ASWELL!!
60,000 Silver
100,000 Gold
300,000 Platinum
The record company has to register the sales - records may have sold a lot more but the company hasn't registered them with the BPI who award the discs.
Maladjusted has never gone silver, but it may have crept up over time past 60,000.
SMITHS , HATFUL OF HOLLOW , Silver , Mon Nov 19 1984
SMITHS , HATFUL OF HOLLOW , Gold , Tue Nov 20 1984
SMITHS , MEAT IS MURDER , Silver , Mon Feb 18 1985
SMITHS , MEAT IS MURDER , Gold , Mon Feb 18 1985
SMITHS , THE QUEEN IS DEAD , Gold , Tue Jul 1 1986
SMITHS , THE QUEEN IS DEAD , Silver , Tue Jul 1 1986
SMITHS , THE WORLD WON'T LISTEN , Gold , Tue Mar 3 1987
SMITHS , THE WORLD WON'T LISTEN , Silver , Tue Mar 3 1987
SMITHS , STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME , Gold , Thu Oct 1 1987
SMITHS , STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME , Silver , Thu Oct 1 1987
SMITHS , HATFUL OF HOLLOW , Platinum , Mon Oct 12 1987
SMITHS , RANK , Silver , Fri Sep 16 1988
SMITHS , RANK , Gold , Wed Sep 28 1988
SMITHS , BEST ...1 , Gold , Tue Sep 1 1992
SMITHS , BEST ...1 , Silver , Tue Sep 1 1992
SMITHS , BEST ...II , Silver , Sun Nov 1 1992
SMITHS , SINGLES , Silver , Wed Mar 1 1995
SMITHS , SINGLES , Gold , Wed Mar 1 1995
SMITHS , The Very Best Of The Smiths , Silver , Fri Aug 17 2001
SMITHS , SINGLES , Platinum , Fri May 16 2003
SMITHS , THE VERY BEST OF THE SMITHS , Gold , Fri Jan 16 2004
SMITHS , LOUDER THAN BOMBS , Silver , Fri May 14 2004
SMITHS , LOUDER THAN BOMBS , Gold , Fri May 14 2004
MORRISSEY , VIVA HATE , Gold , Tue Mar 1 1988
MORRISSEY , VIVA HATE , Silver , Tue Mar 1 1988
MORRISSEY , BONA DRAG , Silver , Tue Oct 23 1990
MORRISSEY , KILL UNCLE , Silver , Fri Mar 1 1991
MORRISSEY , VAUXHALL AND I , Silver , Tue Mar 1 1994
MORRISSEY , VAUXHALL AND I , Gold , Mon May 1 1995
MORRISSEY , SOUTHPAW GRAMMER , Silver , Fri Sep 1 1995
> -MORRISSEY (HULMERIST) VIDEO GOLD CERT. DATE 01/18/91 "500,000"+
> -MORRISSEY (VIVA HATE) ALBUM GOLD CERT. DATE 11/16/93 "500,000"+
> -MORRISSEY (BONA DRAG) ALBUM GOLD CERT. DATE 06/12/00 "500,000"+
> AND HOPEFULLY MOZ' NEW ALBUM WILL GO GOLD ASWELL!!
Ok...I stand corrected....but Vauxhall and Arsenal must be pretty damn close to gold....not to mention Kill Uncle.
Never Mind