CSPC: Elton John Popularity Analysis

Digital Singles Sales – Part 2

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

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) – 695,000 equivalent albums

Candle in the Wind – 900,000
Bennie and the Jets – 2,080,000
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – 1,120,000
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting – 280,000
Remaining tracks – 250,000

Caribou (1974) – 263,000 equivalent albums

Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me – 800,000
Step into Christmas – 800,000
Remaining tracks – 150,000

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) – 48,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 320,000

Rock of the Westies (1975) – 113,000 equivalent albums

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – 700,000
Remaining tracks – 50,000

Blue Moves (1976) – 47,000 equivalent albums

Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word – 310,000
Remaining tracks – 0

A Single Man (1978) – 11,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 75,000

Victim of Love (1979) – 1,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 5,000

Bennie and the Jets is the biggest digital track among the songs which first came out from 1973 to 1979. It sold over 2 million units. Various songs are in the 700,000-1,100,000 range including Candle in the Wind, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Step Into Christmas and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.