Talk:Arista Records

Arista Records is now owned by BMG, the Bertelsman Music Group, a division of Bertelsmann Media. Headoffice in Guetersloh, Germany. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.9.93.109 (talk)

Minor fixes
Removed the description of Milli Vanilli as having been based in "West Germany". The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), it's proper name, absorbed the German Democratic Republic ("GDR") in 1989, the year the Wall came down.

And to many people who are too young to remember the fulfilment of Reynaldus Magnus's demand to Mikhail Gorbachev ("Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"), "West" Germany isn't going to mean anything except the geographical.

I also corrected a mistake regarding Whitney Houston's album sales total. It's nowhere near 200 million copies; the total is actually 54,000,000. The Beatles have sold more three times as many albums. The facts can be seen for one's self by checking the RIAA artist sales tally included in the in-text citation.

As for "world-wide" sales this is essentially impossible to tally. As Rush discovered with the quintuple platinum concert video Rush in Rio, for every album sold in Brazil, at least eight copies were made by the buyer and given to friends, relatives, etc. Not piracy, per se, but simply because of the poverty down there. One person can't afford to buy a CD, so he/she and several friends will get together buy it and then make the copies. Even an ancient PC can make perfect copies of CDs.

PainMan (talk) 11:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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