CSPC: Aerosmith Popularity Analysis
Digital Singles Sales – Part 2
Permanent Vacation (1987) – 483,000 equivalent albums
Rag Doll – 910,000
Dude (Looks Like a Lady) – 1,120,000
Angel – 1,110,000
Remaining tracks – 80,000
Pump (1989) – 309,000 equivalent albums
Going Down/Love in an Elevator – 590,000
Water Song/Janie’s Got a Gun – 980,000
What It Takes – 270,000
Remaining tracks – 220,000
Get a Grip (1993) – 527,000 equivalent albums
Livin’ on the Edge – 350,000
Cryin’ – 1,370,000
Crazy – 1,150,000
Amazing – 400,000
Remaining tracks – 240,000
Nine Lives (1997) – 93,000 equivalent albums
Hole in My Soul – 100,000
Pink – 360,000
Remaining tracks – 160,000
Just Push Play (2001) – 68,000 equivalent albums
Jaded – 310,000
Remaining tracks – 140,000
Honkin’ on Hobo (2004) – 24,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 160,000
Music from Another Dimension! (2012) – 24,000 equivalent albums
What Could Have Been Love – 100,000
Remaining tracks – 60,000
Orphan – 1,020,000 equivalent albums
Come Together – 590,000
I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing – 5,760,000
Remaining tracks – 450,000
Eras Permanent Vacation, Pump and Get a Grip have a whopping 6 singles around a million sales in digital formats. Cryin‘ is in the lead but the remaining ones are all fairly close. Additionally, they include 4 more songs which combine for over 1,6 million units. This period was highly prolific for these rock legends. None of these songs reached the status of their main 70s smashes though.
None except I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing. An outstanding catalog seller, this song totals 5,76 million sales up to date. It has very healthy sales everywhere, even in countries where it hasn’t done that well upon release like France.
All in all, the band is up to more tan 25,5 million digital sales.
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.