Black Sabbath

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Country: GB
Birth: 1970-01-01
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Genre: Heavy Metal, Traditional Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Hard Rock

On-demand audio streams B+

Monthly listeners 53.7m 17

Lead streams 7.2b 14

Feat streams 31.6m 1

Monthly revenue $933.2k 15

Sales data B+

CSPC units 83.1m 16

Pure albums 73.7m 16

Physical singles 3.4m 10

Digital singles 17.8m 12

Spotify statistics B

Lead streams 4.8b 14

Feat streams 20.7m 1

Monthly listeners 30.9m 16

Followers 9.5m 12

100m+ tracks 7 7

Popularity 84 16

Followers / Listeners 0.3 5

Replay value 5.3 14

Trends & Indicators B+

Daily streams 5.8m 15

Daily listeners +/- 16.3k 10

Daily followers +/- 5.4k 14

Monthly streams 162.9m 15

Monthly listeners +/- 11.4m 16

Weekly followers +/- 47.5k 15

Trend 1.6 12

Globalness 40.2 14

Monthly listeners map

Below map represents the 50 cities where the artist has the most Spotify monthly listeners.

Album sales map

This second map is based on pure album sales by country.

Artist career totals

All-Time Rank	Studio albums (EAS)	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Total EAS
99	46,280,000	27,467,000	3,420,000	17,770,000	5,622,000 (08/14/25)	83,066,000

Albums statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

artist_spotify_id	#	Album	Studio albums (EAS)	sales_update_date	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Streams increase	Total EAS	valid_as_of	streams_updated_value	album_id
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	1	Black Sabbath	4,910,000	08.03.20	1,933,000	33,000 (110,000)	366,000 (2,440,000)	463,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 170 LD: 590	7,705,000	20,250,814	463,000	314
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	2	Paranoid	9,920,000	08.03.20	20,155,000	654,000 (2,115,000)	1,008,000 (6,720,000)	3,078,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 1,170 LD: 2,940	34,815,000	20,250,814	3,078,000	315
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	3	Master Of Reality	4,810,000	08.03.20	1,977,000	9,000 (30,000)	150,000 (1,000,000)	514,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 190 LD: 580	7,460,000	20,250,814	514,000	316
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	4	Vol. 4	4,120,000	08.03.20	811,000	50,000 (160,000)	51,000 (340,000)	242,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 80 LD: 470	5,274,000	20,250,814	242,000	317
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	5	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	4,030,000	08.03.20	608,000	65,000 (190,000)	48,000 (320,000)	201,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 70 LD: 260	4,952,000	20,250,814	201,000	318
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	6	Sabotage	2,560,000	08.03.20	242,000	6,000 (10,000)	30,000 (200,000)	83,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 30 LD: 80	2,921,000	20,250,814	83,000	319
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	7	Technical Ecstasy	1,490,000	08.03.20	104,000	12,000 (40,000)	14,000 (90,000)	32,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 10 LD: 30	1,652,000	20,250,814	32,000	320
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	8	Never Say Die!	1,420,000	08.03.20	148,000	54,000 (180,000)	25,000 (160,000)	36,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 10 LD: 40	1,683,000	20,250,814	36,000	321
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	9	Heaven & Hell	3,440,000	08.03.20	1,037,000	57,000 (190,000)	168,000 (1,120,000)	311,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 110 LD: 260	5,013,000	20,250,814	311,000	322
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	10	Mob Rules	1,930,000	08.03.20	111,000	21,000 (70,000)	999,000 (6,660,000)	57,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 20 LD: 40	3,118,000	20,250,814	57,000	323
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	11	Born Again	1,400,000	08.03.20	27,000	6,000 (20,000)	6,000 (40,000)	15,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 10 LD: 10	1,454,000	20,250,814	15,000	324
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	12	Seventh Star	790,000	08.03.20	14,000	5,000 (15,000)	3,000 (20,000)	4,000 (03/08/20)	N/A	816,000	20,250,814	4,000	325
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	13	The Eternal Idol	620,000	08.03.20	27,000	2,000 (5,000)	3,000 (20,000)	5,000 (03/08/20)	N/A	657,000	20,250,814	5,000	326
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	14	Headless Cross	740,000	08.03.20	78,000	19,000 (60,000)	2,000 (10,000)	0 (03/08/20)	N/A	838,000	20,250,814	0	327
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	15	Tyr	610,000	08.03.20	34,000	10,000 (30,000)	2,000 (10,000)	0 (03/08/20)	N/A	655,000	20,250,814	0	328
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	16	Dehumanizer	1,000,000	08.03.20	105,000	15,000 (48,000)	9,000 (60,000)	30,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 10 LD: 20	1,159,000	20,250,814	30,000	329
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	17	Cross Purposes	510,000	08.03.20	17,000	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (03/08/20)	N/A	527,000	20,250,814	0	330
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	18	Forbidden	410,000	08.03.20	10,000	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (03/08/20)	N/A	420,000	20,250,814	0	331
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	19	The Devil You Know	320,000	08.03.20	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (03/08/20)	N/A	320,000	20,250,814	0	332
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	20	13	1,250,000	08.03.20	11,000	0 (0)	42,000 (280,000)	146,000 (08/14/25)	Av.: 40 LD: 100	1,449,000	20,250,814	146,000	333
5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ	21	Orphan	0	08.03.20	18,000	13,000 (30,000)	18,000 (120,000)	13,000 (03/08/20)	N/A	62,000	20,250,814	13,000	1,631

'Av.' stands for Average, 'LD' for Last Day.

As a reminder:

Studio Album: sales of the original album
Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

Songs statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales generated through all formats.

#	Single	EAS
1	Paranoid [Paranoid]	17,438,000
2	Iron Man [Paranoid]	8,476,000
3	War Pigs [Paranoid]	5,860,000
4	Children of the Grave [Master Of Reality]	3,657,000
5	N.I.B. [Black Sabbath]	3,509,000
6	Heaven and Hell [Heaven & Hell]	2,738,000
7	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath [Sabbath Bloody Sabbath]	2,434,000
8	Changes [Vol. 4]	2,191,000
9	Sweet Leaf [Master Of Reality]	1,677,000
10	The Mob Rules [Mob Rules]	1,556,000

Studio album sales

Year	Title	Sales
1970	Black Sabbath	4,910,000
1970	Paranoid	9,920,000
1971	Master of Reality	4,810,000
1972	Vol. 4	4,120,000
1973	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	4,030,000
1975	Sabotage	2,560,000
1976	Technical Ecstasy	1,490,000
1978	Never Say Die!	1,420,000
1980	Heaven and Hell	3,440,000
1981	Mob Rules	1,930,000
1983	Born Again	1,400,000
1986	Seventh Star	790,000
1987	The Eternal Idol	620,000
1989	Headless Cross	740,000
1990	Tyr	610,000
1992	Dehumanizer	1,000,000
1994	Cross Purposes	510,000
1995	Forbidden	410,000
2009	The Devil You Know	320,000
2013	13	1,250,000

Compilation album sales

Physical singles sales

Year	Album	Single	Sales
1970	Paranoid	War Pigs	1,856,250
1971	Master of Reality	Into the Void	619,000
1970	Paranoid	Planet Caravan	324,000
1972	Vol. 4	Snowblind	152,750
1981	Mob Rules	The Mob Rules	150,000
1976	Technical Ecstasy	Dirty Women	130,000
1978	Never Say Die!	Never Say Die	110,000
1980	Heaven and Hell	Heaven and Hell	30,000
1971	Master of Reality	Sweet Leaf	20,000
1970	Black Sabbath	The Wizard	10,000

Downloads and ringtones sales

Year	Album	Track	Sales
1970	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath	117,500
1970	Black Sabbath	The Wizard	190,000
1970	Black Sabbath	Behind the Wall of Sleep	240,000
1970	Black Sabbath	N.I.B.	1,810,000
1970	Black Sabbath	Evil Woman	22,500
1970	Black Sabbath	Sleeping Village	17,500
1970	Black Sabbath	Warning	20,000
1970	Black Sabbath	Wicked World	25,000
1970	Paranoid	War Pigs	2,810,000
1970	Paranoid	Paranoid	370,000

Most streamed songs (Top 20)

#	Seq.	Album	Song	Spotify total	Spotify daily	AOD total	EAS
1	5	Paranoid	Paranoid	1,423,436,164	1,216,143	2,385,101,095	1,590,067
2	4	Paranoid	Iron Man	607,446,363	583,014	1,017,833,481	678,555
3	8	Paranoid	War Pigs	400,609,189	495,398	671,258,353	447,505
4	20	Master Of Reality	Children of the Grave	178,432,261	200,917	298,980,025	199,320
5	12	Black Sabbath	N.I.B.	174,122,241	231,206	291,758,182	194,505
6	95	Heaven and Hell	Heaven and Hell - 2008 Remaster	169,794,543	166,028	284,506,717	189,671
7	6	Paranoid	Planet Caravan	118,022,346	129,662	197,757,534	131,838
8	27	Vol. 4	Changes - 2013 Remaster	89,795,771	257,135	150,461,255	100,307
9	46	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - 2014 Remaster	87,885,388	122,416	147,260,228	98,173
10	26	Master Of Reality	Sweet Leaf	87,773,251	124,070	147,072,332	98,048
11	14	Black Sabbath	The Wizard	63,650,514	87,042	106,652,419	71,101
12	10	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath	59,586,026	80,212	99,841,987	66,561
13	24	Master Of Reality	Orchid	56,414,937	30,069	94,528,529	63,019
14	22	Master Of Reality	Into the Void	53,345,183	68,763	89,384,868	59,589
15	1	Paranoid	Electric Funeral	52,521,553	54,436	88,004,799	58,669
16	2	Paranoid	Fairies Wear Boots	49,093,637	56,235	82,261,003	54,840
17	25	Master Of Reality	Solitude	44,925,706	63,161	75,277,243	50,184
18	269	13	God Is Dead?	44,324,078	43,651	74,269,159	49,512
19	31	Vol. 4	Snowblind - 2014 Remaster	39,803,889	80,811	66,695,157	44,463
20	47	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	Sabbra Cadabra - 2013 Remaster	31,499,275	43,061	52,779,996	35,186
		Album	Song
				∑ = 3,832,482,315	∑ = 4,133,430	∑ = 6,421,684,372	∑ = 4,281,122

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Seq. stands for sequence. It sorts albums in discographic order.
Spotify total reflects release to date (RTD) streams of the track as shown on their software.
Spotify daily is calculated based on streams over the last 1 day(s).
AOD (Audio on-demand) reflects total streams through all AOD platforms, Spotify included. The non-Spotify part is an algorithm based figure which considers the main artist's strength and Spotify shares in each market.
AOD streams divided by 1,500 would provide equivalent album sales (EAS) for the track.
The 'Song' and 'Album' grey fields at the bottom of the table allow filtering on them.

Thresholds - CSPC

Date	Format	Title	Milestone
2025-07-10	Album	Heaven & Hell	5,000,000

Thresholds - Spotify KPIs

Date	KPI	Milestone
2024-08-25	Listeners	16,000,000
2024-07-27	Followers	8,000,000
2024-02-29	Listeners	15,000,000
2023-06-11	Listeners	14,000,000
2023-06-11	Followers	7,000,000
2023-03-13	Listeners	13,000,000
2023-01-24	Listeners	12,000,000
2022-12-16	Followers	6,000,000
2022-12-03	Listeners	11,000,000
2022-09-09	Listeners	10,000,000
2020-04-24	Followers	4,000,000

Thresholds - Streams

Date	Format	Title	Milestone
2025-08-13	Single	War Pigs	400,000,000
2025-08-03	Single	Iron Man	600,000,000
2025-07-30	Single	Paranoid	1,400,000,000
2025-07-23	Album	Paranoid	2,600,000,000
2025-05-28	Album	Paranoid	2,500,000,000
2025-04-16	Artist all credits	Black Sabbath	4,000,000,000
2025-04-12	Single	Paranoid	1,300,000,000
2025-03-08	Album	Paranoid	2,400,000,000
2024-12-15	Album	Paranoid	2,300,000,000
2024-12-06	Artist leads	Black Sabbath	4,000,000,000
2024-11-14	Single	Paranoid	1,200,000,000
2024-09-20	Album	Paranoid	2,200,000,000
2024-07-05	Single	Paranoid	1,100,000,000
2024-07-04	Album	Paranoid	2,100,000,000
2024-02-27	Single	Paranoid	1,000,000,000
2024-02-03	Album	Paranoid	1,900,000,000
2023-11-16	Album	Paranoid	1,800,000,000
2023-10-20	Single	Paranoid	900,000,000
2023-08-25	Album	Paranoid	1,700,000,000
2023-07-22	Artist leads	Black Sabbath	3,000,000,000
2023-07-14	Artist all credits	Black Sabbath	3,000,000,000
2023-06-11	Single	Paranoid	800,000,000
2023-06-01	Album	Paranoid	1,600,000,000
2023-03-04	Album	Paranoid	1,500,000,000
2022-11-27	Album	Paranoid	1,400,000,000
2022-08-15	Album	Paranoid	1,300,000,000
2022-04-22	Album	Paranoid	1,200,000,000

Overtakings

Date	Ranking	Overtaking
2025-08-09	Top Artists CSPC - Year 1970	Black Sabbath climb from #9 to #2.
2025-08-01	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #99 to #98.
2025-07-29	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #100 to #99.
2025-07-17	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #100 to #99.
2025-07-15	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #100 to #99.
2025-07-01	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Paranoid climbs from #8 to #2.
2025-06-30	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Iron Man climbs from #10 to #3.
2025-06-01	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #99 to #98.
2025-05-18	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #97 to #96.
2025-05-17	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #98 to #97.
2025-05-14	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #99 to #98.
2025-05-03	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #98 to #97.
2025-04-26	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #98 to #97.
2025-04-22	Top Albums CSPC - All Time	Paranoid climbs from #62 to #61.
2025-04-22	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Iron Man climbs from #10 to #9.
2025-04-14	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #98 to #97.
2025-04-12	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #98 to #97.
2025-04-08	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #98 to #97.
2025-04-05	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Paranoid climbs from #10 to #2.
2025-04-04	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #97 to #96.
2025-04-03	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Paranoid climbs from #2 to #1.
2025-04-03	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Iron Man climbs from #10 to #7.
2025-03-30	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Black Sabbath climb from #97 to #96.
2025-03-30	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Iron Man climbs from #10 to #9.
2025-03-28	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Paranoid climbs from #10 to #2.
2025-03-25	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Iron Man climbs from #10 to #9.
2025-03-20	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Iron Man climbs from #10 to #7.
2025-03-17	Top Songs CSPC - All Time	Paranoid climbs from #71 to #70.
2025-03-14	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1970	Iron Man climbs from #10 to #6.

Artist rankings

With 83,060,000 EAS, Black Sabbath rank #99 among the most successful artists of alltime.
With 41,632,000 EAS, Black Sabbath rank #2 among the most successful artists of 1970.

Album rankings

With 34,812,000 EAS, Paranoid ranks #61 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 34,812,000 EAS, Paranoid ranks #5 among the most successful albums of 1970.
With 2,694,283,731 streams on Spotify, Paranoid ranks #1 among the most streamed albums of 1970.

Song rankings

With 17,437,000 EAS, Paranoid ranks #71 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 17,437,000 EAS, Paranoid ranks #5 among the most successful songs of 1970.
With 1,422,220,021 streams on Spotify, Paranoid ranks #2 among the most streamed tracks of 1970.
With 606,863,349 streams on Spotify, Iron Man ranks #10 among the most streamed tracks of 1970.

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