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http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx


Only A Tonic For The Troops made platinum......

Singles: Silver 200,000; Gold 400,000; Platinum 600,000Albums: Silver 60,000; Gold 100,000; Platinum 300,000

BOOMTOWN RATS - THE BOOMTOWN RATS
Silver Certification (Album) 09 May 1978 PHONOGRAM (ENSIGN) Released August 1977

BOOMTOWN RATS - A TONIC FOR THE TROOPS
Platinum Certification (Album) 03 March 1980 PHONOGRAM (ENSIGN) Released  June 1978
Certification History:
Gold Certification 06 November 1978
Silver Certification 03 August 1978

BOOMTOWN RATS - THE FINE ART OF SURFACING
Silver Certification (Album) 13 February 1980 PHONOGRAM (ENSIGN) Released October 1979
Certification History:
Gold Certification 13 February 1980

BOOMTOWN RATS - MONDO BONGO
Gold Certification (Album) 21 January 1981 POLYGRAM (MERCURY) Released  January 1981


Singles

BOOMTOWN RATS - LIKE CLOCKWORK
Silver Certification (Single)  August 1978 PHONOGRAM (ENSIGN) Released  June 1978

BOOMTOWN RATS - RAT TRAP
Gold Certification (Single)  November 1978 PHONOGRAM (ENSIGN) Released  October 1978
Certification History:
Silver Certification  November 1978

BOOMTOWN RATS - I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS
Silver Certification (Single)  July 1979 PHONOGRAM (ENSIGN) Released  July 1979
Certification History:
Gold Certification  July 1979

BOOMTOWN RATS - BANANA REPUBLIC
Silver Certification (Single)  December 1980 PHONOGRAM (ENSIGN) Released  November 1980



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You may want to suspend belief when you see this!!!!! 
100,000+ people got this album.


BOB GELDOF - DEEP IN THE HEART NOWHERE
Gold Certification (Album) 27 November 1986
PHONOGRAM (MERCURY)
Released November 1986

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Or did I just buy it 100,000 timesbiggrin.  Actually, no I didn't, but that does surprise me.

I guess that answers the question to what we think is the next most heard of Rats track - Banana Republic.

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Jules wrote:
I guess that answers the question to what we think is the next most heard of Rats track - Banana Republic.

I don't know, Clockwork sold as many copies if not more.  Yesterday is perhaps the most famous Beatles song (certainly the most covered), yet was not released as a single in the sixties in the UK.

-- Edited by ArrGee on Friday 18th of September 2009 10:25:20 PM

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I'm not surprised DITHON sold so many copies. Remember it was released after Band Aid/ Live Aid.

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Any one cast any info on Diamond Smiles?I seem to think it was
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Geldof has been on record to say that some of his solo album's have done much better (Sold more) Than some of the rats album. but he fails to point out what rats album his solo stuff sold more than. If he is talking about V.Deep or ITLG I'd under stand that. But not the rest of the albums



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manatthetop wrote:

Geldof has been on record to say that some of his solo album's have done much better (Sold more) Than some of the rats album. but he fails to point out what rats album his solo stuff sold more than. If he is talking about V.Deep or ITLG I'd under stand that. But not the rest of the albums


Although Deep In The Heart of Nowhere got a gold disc, this was based on orders rather than sales.  It's lack of a chart position reflects the likely sales, i.e. poor.

Mondo Bongo also got a gold disc for similar reasons, but again it's appearance in the bargain bins suggest that it was down to orders rather than sales. 

The others are more realistic.  I don't have the figures of all the sales (I did post them somewhere)  but for Mondays vs. Rat Trap I believe the actual scores in the UK were 730,000 vs. 685,000 which is not as big a difference as you might expect.



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 Shows how bad my memory is, but it does show Rat Trap did sell closer to Mondays than you might expect... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles_of_the_1970s_in_the_United_Kingdom

"I Don't Like Mondays" Boomtown Rats 855,000

"Rat Trap" Boomtown Rats 750,000

 

And the biggest seller by Geldof is

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid 3,550,000

Number two of all time in the UK.



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