Physical Singles Sales – Part 1

As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) – 15,000 equivalent albums

Get Up and Jump – 50,000

Freaky Styley (1985) – 18,000 equivalent albums

Hollywood (Africa) – 60,000

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) – 27,000 equivalent albums

Fight Like a Brave – 70,000
Behind the Sun – 20,000

Mother’s Milk (1989) – 78,000 equivalent albums

Higher Ground – 200,000
Knock Me Down – 20,000
Taste the Pain – 40,000

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were nobodies during the 80s. They got various releases but they all sold poorly. The first song which gained some kind of attention was Higher Ground from their fourth album Mother’s Milk.

After these albums, the band left EMI to sign with Warner Bros. The former label released plenty of cheap compilations of those recordings once the band became popular.