Digital Singles Sales – Part 3
Main Course (1975) – 120,000 equivalent albums
Nights on Broadway – 200,000
Jive Talkin’ – 500,000
Remaining tracks – 100,000
Children of the World (1976) – 135,000 equivalent albums
You Should Be Dancing – 700,000
Remaining tracks – 200,000
Saturday Night Fever (1977) – 1,335,000 equivalent albums
Stayin’ Alive – 4,000,000
How Deep Is Your Love – 1,900,000
Night Fever – 1,250,000
More Than a Woman – 950,000
Remaining tracks – 800,000
Spirits Having Flown (1979) – 210,000 equivalent albums
Tragedy – 600,000
Too Much Heaven – 500,000
Remaining tracks – 300,000
Living Eyes (1981) – 3,000 equivalent albums
Remaining tracks – 20,000
Unsurprisingly, Saturday Night Fever is home to the band’s biggest hits in download sales. The obvious leader is Stayin’ Alive at 4 million units sold. Hits from Spirits Having Flown fade in comparison, with only a combined total of 1,4 million units sold.
Great job!
Any chance to also include solo albums from Barry and Robin?
For sure they sell lesser than Bee Gees album, but I have never seen any estimation.
The Top 100 Most Streamed Songs, By Decade in the USA
Stayin Alive the most Streamed song of the 70s in the US.
1950s Mack The Knife, Bobby Darin 24.03 M
1960s Hey Jude. The Beatles 84.74 M
1970s Stayin Alive The Bee Gees 244.37 M
1980s Billie Jean Michael Jackson 450.72 M
1990s I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston 315.17 M
Source: On- Demand U.S Streams (Audio and video combined) According to Nielsen Music
Stayin Alive has reached over 400 million views on YouTube since 2009
Collecting all the potential “feat” instances will be quite a task, so I will not expect it. You’ve already done a lot. Starters would be the Barry and Robin solo albums at least. Most of the “feat” I can think of would be just 1 or 2 brothers, so whether that counts as Bee Gees, I am just not sure. You have to draw a line somewhere. One thing I would have put in are the pre-1967 Australian albums, but since they were almost exclusive to Aus and sales were not much, they would not make much difference in what… Read more »