1995 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Peral Jam's Three albums have each sold more than 7m units WW 1995, Mariah Carey's Music Box album sold an additional 11m units during the fiscal year, with aggregate sales exceeding 20m units WW, Her Merry Christmas album and Pearl Jam's Vitalogy album each sold 7m units WW.
the two-CD Forrest Gump soundtrack sold nearly 6m units, Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Hits sold over 4m units. The Best of Sade, Celine Dion's The Colour of My Love, Pink Floyd's The Division Bell and Luther Vandross's Songs each sold more than 3m units.
New releases by Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Cyndi Lauper, and Robetro Carlos, as well as the Philadelphia soundtrack each sold 2m or more units during the fiscal year.
Debut releases by Da Brat, Oasia, Rage Against the Machine, second album by Jamiroguai, Des'ree each sold a 1m or more.
debut albums by MC Eiht, Patra, Brownstone sold over 500k each.
releases by Babra Streisand, Babyface, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Gipsy Kings, Harry Connick, Jr.Spin Doctors, Joe Diffie, Vicente Fernandez, Francis Carbrel, ZeZe di Camargo, Luciano each sold more than 1m.
Ken Mellons, Rick Trevino, Ty Herndon, Wade Hayes whose debut Single sold over 500k units
1996 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Mariah Care'ys Daydream which sold more than 14m units WW during the year under review, while her 1993 and 1994 Music Box and Christmas albums each sold over 1m additional units. Michael Jackson's 2-Cd History sold more than 10m.
Celine Dion's The Colour of My Love and D'Eux albums each sold nearly 5m units during the year, the former with aggregate sales at 10m units, and her March 1996 release, Falling in to you has sold over 3.5m units Oasis's second album, What's The Story(Moring Glory) sold nearly 7m units. Bruce Springsteens' Greatest Hits and The Ghost of Tom Joad albums surpassed sales of 6m and 2m units respectively.MichaelBolton's Greatest Hits album sold 5m units,
Alice In Chains, Gloria Estefan's Abriendo Puetas, Julio Igesias's La Carreteram Cyndi Lauper's 12 Deadly Cyns, Pink Floyd's Pulse, the Kushelrock 9 compliation each sold 2m units or more.
New Releases by Cypress Hill, Ozzy Osbourne, Soul Asylum, Xscape, ZeZe di carmargo & Luciano, The bad Boys, Forresy Gump sountracks each sold 1,5m units or more.
New releases by Tony Bennet, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Kriss Kross, Dolly Parton, Colin Rayem Luther Vandross, Stevie Ray Vaughan each sold more than 500k utnis.
The Presidents of the United States of America(3m), Silverchair's frogstomp(2.5m) Diana King's Tougher Than Love (2m) and Fugees's second album The Score which sold nearly 2m units.
Debut releases by 3T, Tina Arena, Jon.B.Dionne Farris, Groove Theory, second album by Deep Forest, Sophie B Hawkins, Xscape each sold more hhan 500k
1997 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Since her 1990 debut, Mariah Carey has sold more than 80m records WW
Celine Dion's Falling Into You sold more than 21m albums since its march 1996 release.
The Score by Fugees sold an additional 10m units for aggregate sales exceeding 11m units.
Albums selling one million or more units included Celine Dion’s Live à Paris, The Colour of My Love and D’Eux, Bone Thugs- N-Harmony’s E. 1999 Eternal, the Kushelrock 10 compilation, and The Mirror Has Two Faces soundtrack,
and new releases by Alice in Chains, Michael Bolton, Roberto Carlos, Martinho Da Vila, Neil Diamond, Alejandro Fernandez, Manic Street Preachers, Ricky Martin, Meja, The Offspring, The Presidents of the United States of America, Shakira, Skank, Luther Vandross, Harlem Yu, and ZeZe di Camargo y Luciano Debut albums by 3T, Ghostface Killah, Ginuwine, Kula Shaker, Amanda Marshall, and Maxwell, and new releases by developing artists (London) Suede, KorN, and silverchair, each sold one million or more units.
1998 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love and the Titanic soundtrack each sold more than 19 million units, and were the top-two selling albums in the world. Mariah Carey’s Butterfly (8 million units) and Oasis’ Be Here Now (7million units) enjoyed global success, followed by Barbra Streisand’s Higher Ground, Celine Dion’s Falling
Into You, Savage Garden, and the Men in Black soundtrack (over 4 million units each). Other multimillionselling releases included albums by Fiona Apple, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Michael Jackson, Jamiroquai, Ricky Martin, Pearl Jam, Will Smith, Wham!, and the soundtrack from My Best Friend’s Wedding.
Debut and developing artists selling more than 500,000 units during the year under review included Savage Garden (Australia); Meja, Monica Naranjo, Jimmy Ray, Finley Quaye, and Wes (Europe); Alejandro Fernandez(Mexico); and Fiona Apple, Ben Folds Five, Ginuwine, Amanda Marshall, Maxwell, and Uncle Sam (North America).SMEI pioneered new online technologies and forged several relationships with key Internet service providers, and Sony Music Nashville re-established the Monument label.
1999 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Celine Dion sold over 60 million albums during a single 30-month period. Albums by Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and Lauryn Hill, and the Titanic soundtrack, each sold
more than eight million units, while releases from Ricky Martin, George Michael, Offspring,Savage Garden, Will Smith, and Dixie Chicks, and the Armageddon and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai soundtracks, each sold over five million units worldwide. More than 35 other releases sold between one and five million units.
Debut and developing artists selling over one million units during the year included B*Witched, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Charlotte Church, Des’ree, Dixie Chicks, Fatboy Slim, Ginuwine, Lauryn Hill, KoRn, Maxwell, Shawn Mullins, Offspring, and Savage Garden.
2000 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
During the year, All The Way – A Decade of Song by Celine Dion and Ricky Martin sold more than 15 million and 14 million units worldwide, respectively, while aggregate sales of new albums by Marc Anthony, Mariah Carey, Destiny’s Child, Dixie Chicks, Macy Gray, Jamiroquai, Ko n, Jennifer Lopez, Rage Against The Machine, Savage Garden, and Will Smith eclipsed 50 million units.
During the year, debut albums by Jennifer Lopez and Macy Gray underscored SMEI’s artist development successes with sales of approximately 5.1 million and 4.5 million units, respectively, while second albums by Fiona Apple, B*Witched, Charlotte Church, Destiny’s Child, Dixie Chicks, Mobb Deep, Savage Garden, Will Smith, and Travis cumulatively sold more than 25million units.
Debut recordings by Blaque, Mandy Moore, and Jessica Simpson each surpassed sales of one million units.
Celine Dion, a five-time Grammy Award®winner, has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide in the past decade.
2001 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Aggregate sales of new releases by 3LW, Aerosmith, Cypress Hill, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Lara Fabian, Fuel, Incubus, Wyclef Jean, KoRn, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Train, Wu-Tang Clan, and other best-selling releases, sold more than 70 million units worldwide.
debut albums from Anastacia, Crazy Town, Billy Gilman, Macy Gray, Lil Bow Wow, Jill Scott, and Son By Four, and second albums by Dixie Chicks, Savage Garden, and Destiny’s Child. These albums contributed sales of 24 million units.
Sade’s Lovers Rock has sold more than 5.4 million units both in the United States and internationally, for career sales of more than 45 million units.
Destiny’s Child’s Independent Women Part I, from the Charlie’s Angels soundtrack, reached the largest audience (140.4 million listeners) in the history of monitored U.S. airplay.
Charlotte Church’s albums – Voice Of an Angel, Charlotte Church, and Dream a Dream – have sold in excess of 7 million copies worldwide.
Anastacia’s debut album, Not That Kind, was first released in Europe where it became a Top 10 hit, with gold, platinum and multiplatinum sales status in more than a dozen countries and overall sales exceeding three million units.
Billy Gilman, at age 11, became the youngest artist in SoundScan history to have a #1 hit and sell a million albums.
2002 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (SMEI) sold more than 340 million units worldwide during the year under review, maintaining its standing as the number two music company worldwide with a 17% market share. Global multimillion sellers included releases by Destiny‘s Child, Shakira, Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Anastacia, Train, System of a Down, Jamiroquai, Travis and Incubus. Twenty-six other releases sold more than one million units each.
2003 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
With a global market share of 16.5%, SMEI remained the world’s second largest producer,manufacturer and marketer of recorded music and video. SMEI sold more than 330 million units worldwide, led by multimillion sales of recordings by the Dixie Chicks, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, Bruce Springsteen and John Mayer. Fifty other albums, 20% by debut artists, sold between 500,000 and two million units.
2004 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
John Mayer’s second album, 'Heavier Things', debuted at number one on Billboard’s Top 200 Albumschart and has sold more than two million units since its release in September 2003.
2005 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Destiny's Child's 'Destiny Fulfilled' was released in November 2004 and went on to sell 5.5m units during the fiscal year, achieving double platinum in US, Canada, Japan and Platinum and Gold in countries across Europe, Oceania, Asia.
Maroon 5 'Songs about Jane' sold more than 8m WW
2006 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Carrie Underwood's 'Some Hearts' sold over 3m WW
Il Divo's Three albums(Il Divo, Ancora, The Christmas Collection) sold a combined total of more than 8.5m during the period.
Shakira 'Fijación Oral Vol. 1', 'Oral Fixation Vol. 2' combined sold more than 4.5m
System of a Down's 'Mezmerize', 'Hypnotize' combined sold more than 5m
Kelly Clarkson's 'Breakway' sold 6m during the priod under review and un impressive 8.6m up to date
Foo Fighters's 'In Your Honor' sold over 3m WW
T-Pain sold close to 3.3m master ringtones and over 0.92m online singles
natasha bedingfield sold nearly 1.4m online singles and 310k master ringtone during the year ended march ,31
2007 Annual Report (year ended March 31)
Christina Aguilera sold well over 25m Albums WW
The Fray's 'How to Save a Life' sold almost 2.5m WW
Jutin timberlake's 'FutureSex/LoveSounds' close to 6m WW
Dixie Chicks's 'Taking the Long Way' sold over 3m WW
2008~2009 nothing to get.
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