From the rest of the 70s, Heroes happens to be just over 1 million units sold, the pop star only million seller of the decade. While songs from all albums up to Heroes retain some relevance moving more than 4 million units together, the track list of Lodger seems to be completely forgotten for years.
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1 ratio between one album and one digital single.
Pin Ups (1973) – 23,000 equivalent albums
Sorrow – 75,000
Remaining Tracks – 75,000
Diamond Dogs (1974) – 120,000 equivalent albums
Rebel Rebel – 600,000
Remaining Tracks – 200,000
Young Americans (1975) – 195,000 equivalent albums
Young Americans – 500,000
Fame – 650,000
Remaining Tracks – 150,000
Station to Station (1976) – 60,000 equivalent albums
Golden Years – 200,000
Remaining Tracks – 200,000
Low (1977) – 60,000 equivalent albums
Sound And Vision – 200,000
Remaining Tracks – 200,000
Heroes (1977) – 165,000 equivalent albums
Heroes – 1,000,000
Remaining Tracks – 100,000
Lodger (1979) – 15,000 equivalent albums
Remaining Tracks – 100,000
Also the version of All The Young Dudes with Ian Hunter and Bowie on vocals on the Mott The Hoople page doesn’t show up on his features.
Just noticed that a number of Bowie songs have recently been been greyed out on spotify and their totals no longer show on the spotify tool report.They’re all on the albums Platinum Collection and Sound + Vision.
Also for some reason the songs credited to Bowie and the Spider on the Bowie at the Beeb album have a separate artist id??