Physical Singles Sales
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.
The State (1998) – 6,000 equivalent albums
All singles – 20,000
Silver Side Up (2001) – 591,000 equivalent albums
Never Again – 30,000
How You Remind Me – 1,750,000
Too Bad – 190,000
The Long Road (2003) – 150,000 equivalent albums
Someday – 340,00
Feelin’ Way Too Damn Good – 70,000
Figured You Out – 90,000
All the Right Reasons (2005) – 135,000 equivalent albums
Photograph – 180,000
Animals – 20,000
Savin’ Me – 40,000
Far Away – 90,000
If Everyone Cared – 30,000
Rockstar – 90,000
Dark Horse (2008) – 24,000 equivalent albums
Gotta Be Somebody – 50,000
Remaining Singles – 30,000
Up to just over 3 million physical singles sold, Nickelback were clearly not a force on in this format. This is pretty standard among Rock bands for which promoting albums was more efficient. More than half of the tally comes from their crossover smash How You Remind Me.
Very interesting article. I did not expect Nickelback to be ahead of the Spice Girls or Christina Aguilera in the CSPC list! They have very consistent sales even if they don’t seem to be successful outside the English speaking world + Germany.
You should do Chad Kroeger’s ex-wife at some point (Avril Lavigne)!
Exactly. Most of their sales comes from USA, Canada, Germany, UK and Australia. 5 of the greatest markets indeed, but not much outside them.
When you consider the fact that they have 9 studio albums and Christina produce only 5 studio albums, it really isnt a wonder how they produced more total album sales. Plus, they really make use of the booming music market from late 90s until mid 00s. They produced multiple albums back then, while Xtina produced only 2 studio albums.