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HI - Does anybody know which was the Rats best selling album of all time- I'm including all the re released cd albums and greatest hits in this.

I suspect in might be Tonic . From 1978 till 2010 it must have outsold the others in terms of accumulated sales. I bought it probably four times in various formats.

Can anybody tell me if Tonic has outsold the greatest hits?

When I think about it I must have bought all the individual albums about four times each, if not more, never mind the Geldof solo stuff!

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Tonic and Surfacing are the 2 that not proper fans have heard of or bought.  Imust have had several copies of Tonic as I wore out the tape so many times.  Now I've probably bought various copies of all of them in different formats.

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BPI Certification for the Rats LP's were as follows :-

The Boomtown Rats - Silver
Tonic - Platinum
Surfacing - Silver
Bongo - Gold
V Deep - Tin
Long Grass - Copper 

Not all of the above is true though biggrin 



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In the UK it is A Tonic for the Troops, but worldwide it is possible that The Fine Art of Surfacing outsold it.  Only the guys at the record company could tell us for sure.

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=48603&p=3&topicID=30980931

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



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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Ian MD wrote:

BPI Certification for the Rats LP's were as follows :-

The Boomtown Rats - Silver
Tonic - Platinum
Surfacing - Silver
Bongo - Gold
V Deep - Tin
Long Grass - Copper 

Not all of the above is true though biggrin 



Like the proverbial football team that was lucky to get 0 when they loose 0-2 the Rats were lucky to get tin and copper.

 



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Thanks ArrGee for your work in  getting those statistics of album sales. I was aware of this before. Obviously these figures represent a snapshot in time when the albums were originally released- the spike in the graph - but I wonder about sales subsequently over the years. Since 1978 there must have been continuous sales of Tonic although at a much lower lever and over the years this would have accumulated, like all the other albums- a trickle, steady or otherwise.

Surfacing was probably a bigger worldwide hit outside the UK.

Geldof had the goodwill of all of Britain and the world when he released his first solo album so it's not that surprising that he sold one hundred thousand copies - he was the housewife's favourite for a while!

PS Its amazing how someone can be in the charts for over a year, like Florence and her Machine- you'd imagine sales would peak in the top ten and then taper off over a few weeks but these Lady GAGA types can continually be in the charts for months on end.



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I've got the Silver disk award for Surfacing. In the last few years I've managed to get it signed on the back by 4 of the Boomtown Rats.

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BTR wrote:
I've got the Silver disk award for Surfacing. In the last few years I've managed to get it signed on the back by 4 of the Boomtown Rats.

Pah, I have a copy of Pale White Girls signed by Geldof.  Now that is rare biggrin

I often wonder what happens to all those gold & silver discs.  Must be a pain spillting them between the band.  And I wonder if they actually play.  I did spray some 7" singles with gold paint when I was young, but it just fcuked them up!

 



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i won't ask but why is this not hanging on Geldofs wall?biggrin

ie BTR'S silver disc.

-- Edited by noelindublin on Sunday 26th of September 2010 01:27:02 PM

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I won't ask but why is this not hanging on Geldof's wallbiggrin

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noelindublin wrote:

I won't ask but why is this not hanging on Geldof's wallbiggrin




I have the one that was given to Ensign Records and I bought it.



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