I’ve gotten a lot of requests for the (RIAA standard) sales figures for Avenged Sevenfold’s “Nightmare” so I thought I would share not only that but the rest of the numbers for all their major releases as well with you guys.
According to Nielsen Soundscan Avenged Sevenfold’s total sales for each album to date are as listed:
“Nightmare” – 376,442
“Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough” – 112,520
“Avenged Sevenfold” – 709,309
“All Excess” – 60,943
“City Of Evil” – 1,043,709
“Waking The Fallen” – 552,869
“Sounding The Seventh Trumpet” – 243,819
If you guys are interested the RIAA award certification’s criteria for albums are listed below:
500,000 units – Gold Album
1,000,000 units – Platinum Album
2,000,00 (or more) units – Multi-Platinum Album
10,000,000 units – Diamond Album
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Deathbat News 
Seems sadly low…
Comment by fatboy November 23, 2010 @ 2:43 pmcrazy stuff!!
Comment by Noel November 23, 2010 @ 2:45 pmThat is awesome!! Although I can’t believe Nightmare hasn’t broken gold yet, but COE is platinum. Especially considering that’s the album they get get the most complaints about, lol!! Me personally I love everything they do, but we all remember the hater flack from COE.
Comment by Christen November 23, 2010 @ 2:47 pmOoh! That is really quite awesome to see :D
Comment by H November 23, 2010 @ 2:48 pmSo maybe by the middle of next year, Nightmare will become a Gold album! =D
Comment by Alan November 23, 2010 @ 2:50 pmAwesome, I think Nightmare will eventually go Platinum
Comment by Smedg November 23, 2010 @ 2:51 pmI bet early next year Nightmare will go Gold.
Comment by Alyssa November 23, 2010 @ 2:52 pmThose are only US numbers. Worldwide sales are much much higher.
Comment by UK_JC November 23, 2010 @ 3:01 pmThey were posted for RIAA certification purposes. Fans were emailing me to find out how close they were to getting Gold with Nightmare. Hence why they’re only the US figures.
Comment by deathbatnews November 23, 2010 @ 3:05 pmI’m proud to have all these album in my bedroom : )
I have a question : Is it possible to find somewhere their demo ( 1999 ou 2000 demo ) and also their EP Warmness On The Soul ? Thanks
Comment by Antoine November 23, 2010 @ 3:02 pmHave you checked Ebay? I think those pop up on there sometimes.
Comment by Rachel November 23, 2010 @ 3:24 pmuse to have warmness on the soul….ended up giving it to girlfriend (now ex) as an appreciation of my love i cant find a copy of the two anywhere =\
Comment by Aaron7x November 23, 2010 @ 3:25 pmThat’s deep man
Comment by Lowell November 23, 2010 @ 11:13 pmI believe I got the Warmness on the Soul EP from Best Buy a couple years ago…
Comment by xhiimalex November 23, 2010 @ 7:03 pmHell yeah thats how its done, there will NEVER be another like avenged. Sure bands come and go and who knows, probably more succssful? But those guys truly turned heads in music and made there name known. They`ll go down in rock history IMO. They share a bond with each other and us fans that can never be broken. I`ll love those guys till the end.
Comment by GraceyP November 23, 2010 @ 3:02 pmthose stats are wrong!
Comment by vto November 23, 2010 @ 3:06 pmSearch the RIAA for avenged sevenfold and it shows you that Live in the LBC went platinum 06/05/2009!!
Wrong. LBC was certified VIDEO Platinum which you reach with a CD/DVD combo after 100,000 sales. You can read the post here.
Comment by deathbatnews November 23, 2010 @ 3:09 pmThis is awsome to see :) is it possible to see the number of records that have been sold world wide?
Comment by Alexis November 23, 2010 @ 3:28 pmHmm….how the hell did the self-titled sell so many copies?It’s a good album but it’s the weakest Sevenfold album.If they decide to carry on after this and hopefully,and if Portnoy joins them permanently,i hope they make an album with the dark,lyrical genius of Waking The Fallen,the skill and technicality of City Of Evil and the catchiness of Nightmare with hints of Dream Theater influences.A7X for LIFE!
My ranking of their albums,number 1 being the best.
1.Waking The Fallen
Comment by N.Viknes November 23, 2010 @ 3:29 pm2.City Of Evil
3.Nightmare
4 Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
5.Avenged Sevenfold(Self-titled)
i personally don’t have a rank for there albums, i feel there all as good as each other in there own ways :) i love them all just as much
Comment by phill taylor November 23, 2010 @ 3:59 pmThe S/T is the most commercial friendly. The most “mainstream” if you will. Doesn’t make it a bad thing, just means it appealed to a larger audience then the past albums. Also, Nightmare has only been out for a little over 4 months and seeing as though it’s already close to going Gold is a very good thing.
Comment by deathbatnews November 23, 2010 @ 5:08 pmIts obvious, because more people liked the self titled album. They are a popular enough band that most people who like them know about all their albums, and its plain to see which albums are their most popular. City of Evil, the Self titled, and Nightmare so far (Nightmare gets the benefit of the doubt because its brand new). Personally from a musical standpoint, in regards to theory and writing music, these later albums are much more complete and impressive than Waking the Fallen/STST. They are just better written, it comes with experience. Just because its your favorite, doesn’t mean its everyone elses too. With that said, all of them are great in their own unique way. I just hope they keep that A7X style of writing albums, which is not doing the same thing over and over again.
Comment by Bryan Cortez November 23, 2010 @ 5:28 pmhonestly, i loved the way waking the fallen was written. One of my fav albums of all time it was so dark and the half singing and screaming i just loved that
Comment by Aaron7x November 24, 2010 @ 4:34 pmSelf titled was/is a great album. Yes it is more mainstream, but more importantly, an amazing display of talent, originality and imagination. For many, it put A7X on the radar.
Comment by bLUE November 23, 2010 @ 8:53 pmcouldnt agree more.
Comment by Bianca November 29, 2010 @ 2:54 amself titled was trash
Comment by austins November 23, 2010 @ 3:48 pmNo, it wasn’t.
Comment by Loghen November 23, 2010 @ 6:03 pmAgreed. Well, mostly. It was certainly a huge letdown.
Comment by Drew November 24, 2010 @ 12:11 amNO it wasn’t! Most of my A7X songs are on that album. You can say you din’t like it or whatever.. but you just cannot call it trash!!
Comment by Nickie November 24, 2010 @ 2:57 pmTop albums
1.Nightmare
2.Avenged Sevenfold
3.City Of Evil
4.Waking The Fallen
5.Diamond In The Rough ( i know that it’s not an album )
6.Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
And i like so much All Excess
Comment by Anto November 23, 2010 @ 4:15 pmHow do you find this information? I tried searching sales for another band, but I can’t find anything.
Comment by Jamie November 23, 2010 @ 5:23 pmYou need to have a client login/subscription with Nielsen Soundscan.
Comment by deathbatnews November 23, 2010 @ 5:37 pmThanks for this info. It is something I have looked for a few times with no success. I am surprised the sales are not higher. I assume the numbers include album downloads, but what about single song downloads? Do you know that? I would also be curious about Canadian and worldwide figures. Any idea where to find those?
You continue to do a great job on this site. Thanks very much and please keep it up.
Comment by bLUE November 23, 2010 @ 9:03 pmThe numbers listed are just album sales in the US because that is the only way an album gets certified through the RIAA. I don’t have single song download numbers or international numbers, unfortunately. But, I can work on getting them. And thank you so much.
Comment by deathbatnews November 24, 2010 @ 4:42 amOh! That would help a lot. haha thank you! :)
Comment by Jamie November 23, 2010 @ 9:31 pmA7X album trash? How rude….
Comment by Andy November 23, 2010 @ 5:35 pmEven though I dont like comparing any of their albums, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet CANT not be their weakest album because they have gotten so much better since 1999-2001. Its a little unfair to say the self-titled is their weakest album just because it isn’t as hard or dark as WTF/STST. Yeah I guess its also unfair to call STST the weakest album because they were young with less resources but to be real, STST is their weakest album, as it SHOULD be. The guys have almost said the same thing lol. Just my opinion.
Comment by Bryan Cortez November 23, 2010 @ 5:39 pmwe gotta get nightmare to be diamond! (:
Comment by emilyA7X November 23, 2010 @ 9:17 pmthis info does not count legal or illegal digital downloads. it is only the amount of the cds however, if it included the numbers from itunes it would greatly be higher.
Comment by ethan November 23, 2010 @ 11:11 pmAs stated above – They were posted for RIAA certification purposes. Fans were emailing me to find out how close they were to getting Gold with Nightmare. Hence why they’re only the US figures.
Comment by deathbatnews November 24, 2010 @ 4:39 amI understand that. but still its only the number of CD’s sold. not itunes purchases and what not.
Comment by Ethan November 24, 2010 @ 8:34 amFull album purchases on iTunes count towards RIAA certification criteria.
Comment by deathbatnews November 24, 2010 @ 8:37 amBUY THE ALBUM!!!!!!!!
do it for THE REV!
these guys deserve another GOLD at least
Comment by mike November 24, 2010 @ 12:48 pmthis is awesome, i’ve been looking for these figures for a while now. thank you :)
Comment by John "Vinny" November 24, 2010 @ 7:53 pmI cant believe nightmare is so low
Comment by Anonymous November 24, 2010 @ 8:39 pmNightmare has only been out a little over 4 months. Selling that much in that little of time with the way the music business is right now doesn’t really classify that as low. Plus, it’s only the US numbers.
Comment by deathbatnews November 25, 2010 @ 6:35 amOkay kids. We only need 8,956,291 for City of Evil to go Diamond. WE CAN FUCKING DO IT!!!! haha… No but seriously…
Comment by Sarah November 24, 2010 @ 9:50 pmI love this comment :D
Comment by Drunoctis November 25, 2010 @ 1:10 pmI love YOU.
Comment by Sarah November 30, 2010 @ 11:58 amwho wants to be the man (idealy a rich man) and buy 623,558 copys of nightmare and make it platinum?
Comment by zach November 26, 2010 @ 2:52 amUnfortunately, that wouldn’t work, Hah. If someone were to buy that many copies (at one time/at one place) the RIAA would consider them trying to rig the charts and the sales wouldn’t couldn’t towards it.
Comment by deathbatnews November 26, 2010 @ 2:57 amah figures haha
Comment by Anonymous November 29, 2010 @ 10:22 pmwell, waking the fallen should be +1 now, just bought a new copy last week because I left mine when I left my husband lol.
Comment by Bianca November 29, 2010 @ 2:47 amCOE has sold more than 1,500,000 copies in States and over 2,500,000 worldwide))
Comment by Anonymous December 2, 2010 @ 2:35 amJust like I’ve stated before in this post, these are only US sales as someone was asking about the RIAA certifications.
Comment by deathbatnews December 2, 2010 @ 4:28 amIs it possible to find total worldwide sales? I’m in Italy, I own every Avenged Sevenfold album and I’m really wondering how much they’ve sold worldwide so far.
Comment by Luca December 9, 2010 @ 11:54 amThx for this information deathbatnews, good job!!!
man i wish like hell that a7x was doing better recently i mean wat the hell their new songs are GOLD the nightmare album might be the BEST album i have ever heard. its alot better than city of evil. Nightmare should be a DIAMOND album.
Comment by Anonymous May 18, 2012 @ 2:40 pmHow about an updated total? I wanna see how close Nightmare is to platinum!!!
Comment by Anonymous October 2, 2012 @ 6:43 pm