CSPC: Black Eyed Peas Popularity Analysis

Black Eyed Peas Career CSPC Results

So, after checking all the figures, how many overall equivalent album sales has each Black Eyed Peas album achieved? Well, at this point we hardly need to add up all of the figures defined in this article!

In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

artist_spotify_id	#	Cover	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
1yxSLGMDHlW21z4YXirZDS	1		Behind the Front	700,000	03.08.17	1,000	9,000 (30,000)	15,000 (100,000)	4,000 (08/03/17)	N/A	729,000	20,231,204	4,000	1,196
1yxSLGMDHlW21z4YXirZDS	2		Bridging the Gap	700,000	03.08.17	1,000	84,000 (280,000)	15,000 (100,000)	5,000 (08/03/17)	N/A	805,000	20,231,204	5,000	1,197
1yxSLGMDHlW21z4YXirZDS	3		Elephunk	9,500,000	03.08.17	112,000	1,161,000 (3,870,000)	2,000,000 (13,330,000)	1,971,000 (12/04/23)	Av.: 710 LD: 1,140	14,694,000	20,231,204	1,971,000	1,198
1yxSLGMDHlW21z4YXirZDS	4		Monkey Business	10,300,000	03.08.17	137,000	447,000 (1,490,000)	2,828,000 (18,850,000)	1,855,000 (12/04/23)	Av.: 670 LD: 1,030	15,567,000	20,231,204	1,855,000	1,199
1yxSLGMDHlW21z4YXirZDS	5		The E.N.D.	9,050,000	03.08.17	0	174,000 (580,000)	8,150,000 (54,330,000)	3,492,000 (12/04/23)	Av.: 1,250 LD: 2,030	20,501,000	20,231,204	3,492,000	1,200
1yxSLGMDHlW21z4YXirZDS	6		The Beginning	3,100,000	03.08.17	0	57,000 (190,000)	2,903,000 (19,350,000)	1,309,000 (12/04/23)	Av.: 440 LD: 840	7,369,000	20,231,204	1,309,000	1,201
1yxSLGMDHlW21z4YXirZDS	7		Translation	0		0	0 (0)	0 (0)	2,522,000 (12/04/23)	Av.: 0 LD: 0	2,522,000	20,231,204	2,522,000	0
1yxSLGMDHlW21z4YXirZDS	8		MASTERS OF THE SUN VOL. 1	0		0	0 (0)	0 (0)	77,000 (12/04/23)	Av.: 0 LD: 0	77,000	20,231,204	77,000	0
1yxSLGMDHlW21z4YXirZDS	9		Orphan	0	03.08.17	0	46,000 (150,000)	98,000 (650,000)	21,000 (08/03/17)	N/A	164,000	20,231,204	21,000	1,630

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)

Artist career totals

See where the artist ranks among remaining singers

The linearity of the Peas’ results is atypical. From 2003 to 2009, their success was insanely consistent. All three of Elephunk, Monkey Business and The E.N.D. surpass 13 million equivalent album sales with ease, recording 40 million equivalent album sales together. The E.N.D. reached an amazing 17,6 million. On a less eventful point, their first two albums are incredibly low. Catalog sales alone should have raised their totals far higher. As this didn’t happen, it highlights very well the complete absence of adoption of the Fergie-less band by the general public.

The Beginning shows the natural decline in sales of the band that has been ongoing for more than 5 years. This decline is far less dramatic than upon first inspection. Digital formats grant it more sales than its album sales format to compensate partially the sharp drop, in fact its overall 6,4 million sales are fairly solid.

In total, the Black Eyed Peas moved 52,6 million equivalent album sales, almost exclusively on the back of only four albums.

Interestingly, if we factor in The Dutchess era, itself responsible for nearly 12 million equivalent album sales, the Peas end up as one of the top acts of the 00s, challenging even Coldplay and Linkin Park, both of which are over 60 million for that period. Nowadays though their golden days seem long gone and their solo members are struggling to make it big again. Only time will tell if they will be able to record a successful comeback.

The following pages list their most successful songs as well as their records and achievements. Do not forget to check our amazing cross-artists lists posted inside the CSPC: Data Collector which includes the full listing of all CSPC results compiled so far to better gauge their position in the history of the music industry.

As usual, feel free to comment and / or ask a question!

Sources: IFPI, Spotify, YouTube, Chartmasters.org.