Mannheim has sold over 41 million albums.
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If you lined up all the CDs sold, they would stretch from New York to Los Angeles and then into the Pacific Ocean — more than 3000 miles.
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If you stacked up the CDs, they would be taller than the Willis Tower in Chicago — 645 times taller.
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The band’s name came from Mannheim, Germany where Mozart lived. Mannheim Steamroller is the name for an 18th century musical technique known as the crescendo.
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Chip formed the American Gramaphone record label in 1974 when no label would take on his music. Today, American Gramaphone is one of the most successful independent music franchises in history.
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Mannheim Steamroller’s music styling, dubbed “18th Century Classical Rock”, is largely credited with establishing the genre of New Age music.
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The music industry told Chip, “Don’t do a Christmas album because that will signal the end of your career. Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, Chip’s first Christmas album, went on to sell five million copies after Chip produced it himself — and changed the sounds of Christmas music forever.
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Mannheim Steamroller is the #1 Christmas music artist of all times, selling over 31+ million albums.
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Since 1984, Mannheim Steamroller has traveled more than 40 million miles, hung more than 4 million square feet of video screen and booked more than 60,000 hotel rooms in eight time zones for its annual Christmas tour.
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Chip has created two traveling troupes for the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Tour to meet continuing popular demand even after more than 35 years of the tour, the longest running consecutive tour in the industry.
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