The country song (Wagon Wheel) written by Bob Dylan in 1973 and recorded in Mexico is one of the best selling songs ever in the USA. Sony Publishing announced in June that the song's sales are +16 million and the radio airplay audience is +4 billion. Wagon wheel is e.g. 11 platinum for Danius Rucker and 3 platinum for Old Crew Medicine Show. So Dylan wrote the music in 1973 and Ketch Secor wrote the lyrics in 2001. This song can be said to be organic, it has spread through bars and schools. The song is easy to sing and play, 3 chords. In addition to usa, it is popular e.g. In Canada, Australia, Ireland. It sells really well all the time and it has been too popular for a long time and e.g. In Nashville, it has been banned. It is Bob Dylan's second highest grossing song of this millennium after Make You Feel My Love. Blowin In The Wind is his most profitable song of all time, so it is a global anthem. Dylan's royalties have been 30-40 million dollars a year. Cover versions and their licensing e.g. to movies is lucrative.

A year ago I wrote that Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan will continue to tour. Nelson 92 years and Dylan 84 years are the oldest rock musicians who are actively working. Today Dylan does about 80 concerts a year. The previous Bob Dylan Chartmasters assessment was made on October 20, 2016, shortly after Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 9 years, Dylan's record sales have increased by about 4 million units according Chartmastwrs.7 This is probably the biggest mistake in these statistics. Previously, Dylan sold 3 million albums annually. Record sales have decreased, but Nobel status and a successful film, among other things, have boosted sales. The studio album was global number 1 in 2020 and sales have continued. 14 box sets have sold really strongly. Sony's best-selling albums in Q4. In fact, the tangle is so big that there is not enough space. Concert for Bangladesh was a hit during Harrison and Dylan's time. Harrison 10 songs, Dylan 5 songs, Leon Russel 2 songs. It was the first triple album, priced at $12.98. In particular, country-specific collections were not counted because Discogs was not in use. More Dylan albums have been released in Japan than anywhere else. Since the 1970s, Dylan's popularity in Asia has been strong and, unlike pop artists, Dylan's popularity has remained solid. How much is missing from sales to this day. Several tens of millions for sure. And now we're talking about Dylan's own recordings. Dylan's cover versions have sold even more than his own recordings. Discogs also revealed that Dylan's songwriting credits are the largest of any rock artist. Dylan is the most used artist in films before Elvis, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen. to be continued. More than 2,000 books have been written about Dylan. He has spread widely in popular culture, although it is considered that he has risen a step up and is now talked about as art. And most
importantly, the endless tour continues, started in 1988, Korona in 2020 prevented concerts.