CSPC: Cranberries Popularity Analysis

Physical Singles Sales

As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (1993) – 375,000 equivalent albums

Dreams – 210,000
Linger – 1,040,000

No Need to Argue (1994) – 624,000 equivalent albums

Ode to My Family – 390,000
I Can’t Be with You – 110,000
Zombie – 1,510,000
Ridiculous Thoughts – 70,000

To the Faithful Departed (1996) – 144,000 equivalent albums

Salvation – 250,000
When You’re Gone – 30,000
Free to Decide – 200,000

Bury the Hatchet (1999) – 78,000 equivalent albums

Animal Instinct – 40,000
Promises – 200,000
Just My Imagination – 20,000

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001) – 12,000 equivalent albums

Analyse – 30,000
Time Is Ticking Out – 10,000

Roses (2012) – 0 equivalent albums

Tomorrow – 0

Orphan – 3,000 equivalent albums

All remaining singles / EPs – 10,000

With a pair of million sellers, the Cranberries did OK in physical singles sales. Linger managed a million mostly thanks to sales in the US and the UK, while Zombie did so with no US release and a dreadful 75,000 units in the UK. It was a monster #1 smash in France, Germany and Australia though.

The figure of nearly 400,000 units from Ode to my Family is good, although once again atypical as half of those sales were achieved in France alone. Later singles sold poorly overall. The band’s total in this format is 4,1 million.