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How many Residents fans do you think there are worldwide?
By: Saint_Alfonso Date: February 26, 2018, 8:04 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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Re: How many Residents fans do you think there are worldwide?
By: FrenesiGates Date: March 8, 2018, 2:30 pm
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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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Re: How many Residents fans do you think there are worldwide?
By: Snorp Date: September 23, 2018, 10:23 pm
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5.5 million?
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Re: How many Residents fans do you think there are worldwide?
By: goatie Date: September 24, 2018, 6:33 pm
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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.
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