Okay, Forkboy, here's what I'm trying to say. Nirvana were originally just a fad. Nirvana wouldn't have become such huge legends if it weren't for Dave Grohl's subsequent success and Courtney Love's philanthropy and lawsuits. Otherwise, if it hadn't been for them, they would've been remembered like a band like Hanson, very popular at their time, but not very loved and appreciated as much as they were. But, Dave Grohl has become barely attentative to Nirvana matters and Courtney Love's name not much heard in media anymore, Nirvana has almost nobody to promote it, except the record labels, which will still only get a couple of bucks from the die-hard Nirvana fans and the fat asses who play guitar queero or cock band.

Yes, they are popular, but considering them Rock Gods is an overestimation. Rock Legends too, because they when Cobain died, grunge fell apart really really fast. And also, yes, they sold over 50 million copies worldwide, but there are artists who had one album sell more than that. So Nirvana will be considered a chapter in rock, but a very short one.

WAIT? Nirvana are big because Foo Fighters became successful? That's the biggest pile of revisionist clap-trap I've ever heard.

Were you even alive when Nevermind came out? Stop digging your hole please, it's not even funny anymore.

You know what, you're right. I guess the only reason I wrote some of that stuff before is because they were only able to release three studio albums, which only two were successful, but still, the two alone, along with their greatest hits album and Incesticide, sold roughly around 40 million copies and 10 million copies from the other albums. Still, I suppose I was just a little bit underestimating them because they were alive as a band for such a short period of time. And also, I don't understand why they have a billion box sets when they only really needed one, and if it's for holidays, why all the box sets released after that one were released even though they sold almost nothing.

I meant Dave Grohl, because the beginning of his Foo Fighters projected was largly overshadowed by Nirvana, thus promoting both projects since he was strongly connected to both projects. And later, around the beginning of the 2000's decade, when there was a dispute over the rights Nirvana, he was a major member of the scandal. But now, Foo Fighters are beyond Nirvana, not in popularity and sales, but in the connection. Foo Fighters had established themselves as their own band. I'm not saying Foo Fighters made Nirvana famous. I'm just saying that Dave Grohl helped give some attention to Nirvana during the lawsuit in I believe either 2002-2003.

Wrong way round, the Foo Fighters got big because of the Nirvana association. That's how time works, you see. Had Nirvana been around as long as Foo Fighters, then who's to say what would have happened?

To put it bluntly xD

Nah, jk I totally agree with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_discography
Here are all the albums released. I'm no fan of wikipedia, but it has an organized source of their albums.
Note that everything up until Cobain's death, which is the MTV Unplugged album was released, sold fairly well.
Then, the box set, Singles, sold very little, didn't even chart. Then, the following album, Wishkah, sold fairly well. It went platinum, yes. But if you'll check this next link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters_(album), you will clearly see that it was released around a year after the Wishkah album, and the Foo Fighters album was met with large phenomenon, because it was a project from the drummer of Nirvana, thus causing people to make a big fuss about it, as well as comparing them to Nirvana, having Nirvana be in the attention as well. Also, since it was the first LP, not box set, but LP to be released after Cobain's death, it was guaranteed to sell well. Then, six years later, the band finally released the Nirvana Greatest Hits album. It was met with attention because Foo Fighters were finally a very popular act, and were criticized by critics as possibly gonna rise to be more popular. It was also met with attention because it was had a new song, a new lawsuit between who owns the royalties to the songs, and the Foo Fighters album One By One was released around the same time. The next album, With The Lights Out, was certified platinum, yet it only sold around 100,000+ copies, which shouldn't have made it even eligible to be certified gold. The next album, Sliver: The Best of the Box, was met with only 35,000+ copies sold. Now I don't know about other countries. Those sales might be great there, but these are American sales, and those aren't really high here. Platinum is 1,000,000 copies, Gold is 500,000, and I don't believe we have silver. And you know why the last two had low sales? Because, there was nothing of big importance that gave Nirvana the push for hit albums. Foo Fighters had become more of their own type of band. Courtney Love had become nearly silent to the public.

If you still don't believe me, here is probably the best source.

http://www.riaa.com/gold...rt=Artist&perPage=25

Most of the certifications are from their Nevermind-MTV Unplugged sales, which was before Cobain's death. Everything else is the boxsets, which had not too many certifications.

http://www.riaa.com/gold...php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS

And just to prove that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was their only profitable song.

Also, if you can't access some links, check out riaa.com and look up nirvana.

Do you like.. know anything about the music industry.

It's a compilation. They're all compilations. Of course it's not going to have that 'new music buzz' that makes records sell so well - it's not new music!

Answer me this - what are you trying to prove?!

Sure even if you are releasing new records after 10-20 years it wont be as succesful as your first records