CSPC: Foo Fighters Popularity Analysis
Digital Singles Sales – Part 2
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) – 780,000 equivalent albums
The Pretender – 3,500,000
Let It Die – 350,000
Long Road to Ruin – 850,000
Remaining tracks – 500,000
Wasting Lights (2011) – 435,000 equivalent albums
Bridge Burning – 300,000
Rope – 700,000
Arlandria – 250,000
These Days – 500,000
Walk – 650,000
Remaining tracks – 500,000
Sonic Highways (2014) – 158,000 equivalent albums
Something from Nothing – 350,000
Congregation – 150,000
Outside – 150,000
Remaining tracks – 400,000
Concrete and Gold (2017) – 15,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 100,000
Orphan – 180,000 equivalent albums
Wheels – 750,000
Remaining tracks – 450,000
We already met the case of bands such as Coldplay and Linkin Park that had little showing in the singles chart until the digital years. On a lower scale, the Foo Fighters did the same. The Pretender joins Everlong and Best Of You among the songs with impressive strength, having sold 3,5 million units to date.
Both Wasting Lights and Sonic Highways had no such hit. They benefited from coming out when people were already using iTunes a lot, inclusively replacing the purchase of albums. Thus, all their tracks have relatively decent sales.
Over the course of their career, the Foo Fighers sold a very respectable total of 26 million digital singles.
I would like to see the CSPC for:
The Who
The Doors
The Moody Blues
Simon & Garfunkel
Deep Purple
Kiss
Duran Duran
Eurythmics
Hey MJD, I am very impressed with your works after reading several analyses. Keep up the excellent work. I have several requests, which are: 1. I think it would be better if you put an extra page about the total album (all types) sales per country. I don’t know if you have included this particular page on every artist as I’ve only seen it on Nirvana and Pink Floyd. It is fascinating to add this page since the readers can see which country generates the most sales and primary markets for the artists. 2. I would like to see the… Read more »
He should also add Slipknot and Muse on the list too.
Hi Hagai!
The page with totals is now a recurrent on all articles. Only the oldest ones do not have it and as they are being updated it is added!
As for the artists you mention, two of them are among the next 7 artists planned so far but you will have to wait to know which ones 😉
Hi MJD !!!
I think to know who are these two famous artists; maybe they are Queen and Elton John.
I guess !!!
MJ you are the 21st century Interstellar. And good to see old memebers of the UKMIX here. Also waiting 1 week is too long here.
Wow, almost forty million album units sold worldwide. I thought it would be a little lower than that, but this is not too shabby. 😃
Rock!!!