'90125' was our biggest-selling album worldwide.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.
Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.
I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.
There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.