CSPC: Aerosmith Popularity Analysis
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.
Aerosmith (1973) – 321,000 equivalent albums
Dream On – 1,070,000
Get Your Wings (1974) – 30,000 equivalent albums
Same Old Song and Dance – 30,000
S.O.S. (Too Bad) – 10,000
Train Kept A-Rollin’ – 60,000
Toys in the Attic (1975) – 339,000 equivalent albums
Walk This Way – 870,000
Sweet Emotion – 230,000
You See Me Crying – 30,000
Rocks (1976) – 288,000 equivalent albums
Back in the Saddle – 360,000
Last Child – 460,000
Home Tonight – 140,000
Although these 4 albums have been issued in 4 distinct calendar years, nearly all these singles were sold during the 12 months axed around July 1976. Both top 10 hits in the US, Dream On and Walk This Way sold over 1,9 million globally combined. This includes various reissues, although Run DMC‘s sampled version of the latter is added to the Orphan tracks.
Hi MJD, in Asia Aerosmith outside Japan sell this way less than Metallica?
Hi Jsak!
I haven’t all numbers at hand but from my memories of the Aerosmith study they got big in Asia only with I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing. Even in countries where they have strong views, this song represents a gigantic share of it. Metallica sold very well in Asia from the very beginning so it would be natural to see them ahead.
Aerosmith:
Asia – 9,780,000
Japan – 7,065,000
Metallica:
Asia – 8.380.000
Japan – 3.785.000
Aerosmith in Japan have sold far more, but there is no history outside.
Except this is inaccurate. Aerosmith has more than 150 million world wide in album sales. And if you rank them by platinum album sales Aerosmith is ranked 14th above metallica, Bon jovi, van halen, the who, Michael Jackson. And Aerosmith has still sold more units in America than bon jovi or metallica.
Hi Wayne! What’s inaccurate is all these good old claims coming out of nowhere and repeated online by lazy journalists who just pick the first thing they read on Wikipedia to fill their article. No, Elvis hasn’t sold 1 billion records, nor has the Beatles, Michael Jackson hasn’t sold 750 million, ABBA hasn’t sold 350 million, Madonna hasn’t sold 300 million albums, etc, etc, and Aerosmith haven’t sold more than 150 million albums globally. As for “ranking them by platinum”, that means considering the US is the World as well as considering that albums is the only format that ever… Read more »
Join the discussion…I heard on a 60 minutes episode of Steve Tyler on an interview and they said Aerosmith had sold 160 million albums world wide back in 2013. Obviously 7 years later their even higher now.
You get about 160m if you add all album and single sales together unweighted.
I guess that’s the way it works for all artists. Record sales are way less these days because everything is digital streaming what you have to have 1500 streams gisty just the equal one album sale.