CSPC: Cranberries Popularity Analysis

The Cranberries - Dolores O'Riordan

Digital Singles Sales

As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between one album and one digital single.

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (1993) – 458,000 equivalent albums

Dreams – 1,260,000
Linger – 1,640,000
Remaining tracks – 150,000

No Need to Argue (1994) – 570,000 equivalent albums

Ode to My Family – 550,000
Zombie – 2,850,000
Remaining tracks – 400,000

To the Faithful Departed (1996) – 75,000 equivalent albums

Salvation – 125,000
When You’re Gone – 250,000
Remaining tracks – 125,000

Bury the Hatchet (1999) – 90,000 equivalent albums

Animal Instinct – 200,000
Promises – 100,000
Just My Imagination – 200,000
Remaining tracks – 100,000

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001) – 15,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 100,000

Roses (2012) – ,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 80,000

Orphan – 11,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 75,000

It’s only a matter of time before Zombie tops 3 million digital sales. The band fell into obscurity two decades ago but this track remains a stand-out classic. Both Linger and Dreams, well over 1 million each, are also still popular to this day.

The rest of the band’s catalog is far less shiny nowadays, bringing their cumulative to date downloads and ringtones total to only 8,2 million units.

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