The Talk of Creatures
Rzstuffs => RZ General Board => Topic started by: Saint_Alfonso on February 26, 2018, 08:04:35 pm
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I was trying to figure out exactly how large the Residents fanbase is. They have around 24 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, and 9,000 followers on Twitter, but I think they might have a larger audience than that. (Okay, maybe not MUCH larger, but still...)
Some of their songs on youtube have hundreds of thousands of views, but since people listen to songs multiple times and some listeners might just be curious outsiders and not dedicated fans, that may not be a great tool for estimation. But I still think the Residents fan base has to be a bit larger than we give it credit for - maybe somewhere in the range of 25-40 thousand people?
Being able to find their total album sales would be helpful to predict it - I'm sure Cryptic has that information somewhere on file, but I don't think any of it is public. It would also nice to know if the fanbase is growing, and how quickly.
Does anyone have any other information on this?
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The Residents have an international following.
They have 101,000 fans on Facebook alone.
There is no way you’d ever get an accurate estimate on a question like this. Well, maybe if you were a lucky guesser. My best guess is there are 700,000 people who would call themselves Residents fans.
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5.5 million?
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As far as album sales are concerned, nothing even approaches gold status (500,00 units). Hardy once told me that Stars and Hank was the best seller (probably thanks to the European dance mixes).
Over at Ralph America, they'd press about 1000 copies of a CD, and it would languish for years before finally selling out. And immediately people would complain about low quantities, even though they had (often up to and more than) three years to make a purchase.
Granted, you don't need to buy albums to be a fan, but it sure does help the group to continue doing what they want and not have to beg for financial backers. Frankly I'm shocked that they've lasted as long as they have.