CSPC: Fleetwood Mac Popularity Analysis
Physical Singles Sales
If they never had a true big selling physical single, Fleetwood Mac still sold a nice total of 26 million units. During their early years, the industry was following an other model as today with singles and albums being fully distinct releases. Thus, none of their first nine albums enjoyed sales of singles while all their first hits end up into the Orphan Album category.
Interestingly, while their pure album sales display huge differences between each album, it is not at all the case with their physical singles. Each of their five LPs from 1975 Fleetwood Mac to 1987 Tango In The Night averaged about 4 million units sold from their singles.
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.
Fleetwood Mac (1975) – 810,000 equivalent albums
Over My Head – 700,000
Rhiannon – 900,000
Say You Love Me – 900,000
Landslide – 200,000
Rumours (1977) – 1,770,000 equivalent albums
Go Your Own Way – 1,300,000
Don’t Stop – 1,600,000
Dreams – 2,100,000
You Make Loving Fun – 900,000
Tusk (1979) – 1,320,000 equivalent albums
Tusk – 1,900,000
Sara – 1,500,000
Think About Me – 800,000
Sisters Of The Moon – 200,000
Mirage (1982) – 1,012,500 equivalent albums
Hold Me – 1,700,000
Gypsy – 900,000
Love In Store – 500,000
Oh Diane – 250,000
Can’t Go Back – 25,000
Tango In The Night (1987) – 1,455,000 equivalent albums
Big Love – 1,300,000
Seven Wonders – 700,000
Little Lies – 1,600,000
Family Man – 200,000
Everywhere – 1,000,000
Isn’t It Midnight – 50,000
Behind The Mask (1990) – 135,000 equivalent albums
Save Me – 400,000
In The Back Of My Mind – 50,000
Say You Will (2003) – 24,000 equivalent albums
Peacekeeper – 80,000
Orphan Album – 1,290,000 equivalent albums
Black Magic Woman – 50,000
Need Your Love So Bad – 200,000
Albatross – 1,200,000
Man Of The World – 400,000
Oh Well – 1,400,000
The Green Manalashi – 300,000
Fireflies – 200,000
As Long As You Follow – 300,000
Love Shines – 50,000
Remaining Singles – 200,000