Records & Achievements
- At 16,046,000 EAS, Aerosmith is one of the 10 most successful albums from 1973.
- At 26,830,000 EAS, Toys in the Attic is the 3rd most successful albums from 1975.
- At 12,105,000 EAS, Permanent Vacation is one of the 10 most successful albums from 1987.
- At 14,376,000 EAS, Pump is one of the 10 most successful albums from 1989.
- At 24,381,000 EAS, Get a Grip is the 3rd most successful albums from 1993.
- At 15,240,000 EAS, Dream On is the most successful song from 1973.
- At 17,270,000 EAS, Walk This Way is one of the 5 most successful songs from 1975.
- At 24,381,000 EAS, Get a Grip is the 2nd most successful album ever by an artist aged 45 or more.
- Aerosmith is one of the 2 acts who topped 15 million EAS with eras separated by 20 years or more.
- At 200 million, Dream On is the 14th most streamed track from the 70s on Spotify.
- At 228 million, I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing is the 23rd most streamed track from the 90s on Spotify.
- From 1993 to 2004, Aerosmith recorded 7 albums in a row with 80,000 or more first week sales in Japan.
NB: EAS means Equivalent Album 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.