CSPC: Bee Gees Popularity Analysis

Physical Singles Sales – Part 3

Trafalgar (1971) – 723,000 equivalent albums

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart – 2,220,000
Don’t Wanna Live Inside Myself – 180,000
Israel – 10,000

To Whom It May Concern (1972) – 363,000 equivalent albums

Run to Me – 840,000
Alive – 370,000

Life in a Tin Can (1973) – 12,000 equivalent albums

Saw a New Morning – 40,000

The early 70s is really when the band’s popularity decelerated. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart was a huge global hit, selling an impressive 2,22 million units, although it wasn’t even issued in key markets like the UK, Germany, France or Japan.

Then Run To Me was not that big, but still an OK seller. The tough flop of the album Life in a Tin Can was validated on the singles front too with virtually no sales whatsoever.