Nice Nineties Friday! Some awesome bands and I loved the tune selection! Epitaph must have made a fortune off of Smash, I doubt they saw those kind of sales coming from any other albums they were publishing. lol But if it weren't for labels like that so many great bands wouldn't have been able to put out their music. It's not like today, back then you had to have record deal to have any prayer of making it mainstream! Have a tip!
Facts! It’s wild man! They had not sold over 120K albums prior to 1994, I heard stories of how crazy it was just trying to keep up with demand. It lead to many other artists like Rancid & NOFX selling over 500K sales and hitting gold even though they didn’t have the mainstream break Offspring did. The band definitely made more since Indie pays almost double major label per unit! So Offspring the band did insane on Smash! Plus having a huge album probably got them a good deal when they didn’t bail two years later for a major label. Let’s check the stats ⬇️
