In Lep's defense, Vault was a big seller.

According to that 'Bon Jovi Encyclopedia' book by Neil Daniels...

Bon Jovi - 2 million (at the time)
7800 - 1 million (at the time)
Slippery - 26 million
New Jersey - 18 million
Cross Road - 20 million+
Crush - 9 million
Bounce - 6 million
Have a Nice Day - 7 million
Lost Highway - 4 million

Blaze of Glory - 6 million+
Destination - 3 million

There are sources online that say Keep the Faith sold 12 million and These Days 11 million. Then one would assume The Circle sold about 3-4 million, as well as the Greatest Hits. Also you would include about 1-2 million for Richie's solo stuff.

Then there are a few different sources that say Slippery sold 28 million, Crush 11 million, debut 3.5 million and Fahrenheit 2.5 million. At the same time though some would say HAND and Bounce didnt sell that many.

Adding all that up you get something between 128-143 million. So 130 is about right.

I dont think RS solo albums have between sold 1-2 million copies - Id be amazed if they sold 500,000 for both.

Solo albums just dont sell well as a rule.

I may be wrong though.

solo albums do not count with band or group total sales of albums because if it did, the jackson 5 would have sold 850 million albums with michael's sales.


to the topic. no matter how much i try to count up the figures for def it still comes up to around 65-70 million, no where close to 100 million

at least for jovi there is clear case that jovi is at 125-130, just from 1984-1995, not counting singles, jovi sold about 100 million, so for def to claim 100 million is quite far stretch

No way def leppard have even sold 60m

They havent had a hit album for over 20 years and didn't sell over 60m in their pomp

Lep's claim is almost as absurd as Motley's claim of 80 million. Almost.