CSPC: Fleetwood Mac Popularity Analysis

Digital Singles Sales

No need to say Fleetwood Mac hey-days weren’t marked by digital sales as iTunes was launched more than 15 years after the band last successful album. The question then is how enduring is the appeal of their past hits. Since Rumours and their compilations are impressive catalog sellers, it comes as no surprise to see their digital sales being pretty healthy too.

Moving more than 17 million digital singles in the US alone, the group is up to 32 million singles sold overall. Incredibly, Rumours songs are responsible for almost half of that tally. Their leading hit is 1977 single Go Your Own Way although several songs follow it quite closely.

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

Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac (1968) – 60,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 400,000

Mr. Wonderful (1968) – 53,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 350,000

Then Play On (1969) – 15,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 100,000

Kiln House (1970) – 3,000 equivalent albums

All tracks – 20,000

Future Games (1971) – 0 equivalent albums

Not available digitally.

Bare Trees (1972) – 0 equivalent albums

Not available digitally.

Penguin (1973) – 0 equivalent albums

Not available digitally.

Mystery To Me (1973) – 0 equivalent albums

Not available digitally.

Heroes Are Hard To Find (1974) – 8,000 equivalent albums

Not available digitally except Angel, 50,000.

Fleetwood Mac (1975) – 825,000 equivalent albums

Over My Head – 200,000
Rhiannon – 1,500,000
Say You Love Me – 300,000
Landslide – 2,900,000
Remaining Tracks – 600,000

Rumours (1977) – 2,250,000 equivalent albums

Go Your Own Way – 4,400,000
Don’t Stop – 1,000,000
Dreams – 3,100,000
You Make Loving Fun – 700,000
The Chain – 2,100,000
Songbird – 700,000
Never Going Back Again – 1,200,000
Second Hand News – 500,000
Gold Dust Woman – 400,000
I Don’t Want To Know – 200,000
Oh Daddy – 200,000
Remaining Tracks – 500,000

Tusk (1979) – 240,000  equivalent albums

Tusk – 400,000
Sara – 650,000
Think About Me – 75,000
Sisters Of The Moon – 75,000
Remaining Tracks – 400,000

Mirage (1982) – 188,000  equivalent albums

Hold Me – 200,000
Gypsy – 800,000
Love In Store – 50,000
Oh Diane – 50,000
Remaining Tracks – 150,000

Tango In The Night (1987) – 810,000  equivalent albums

Big Love – 400,000
Seven Wonders – 500,000
Little Lies – 1,300,000
Family Man – 100,000
Everywhere – 2,700,000
Remaining Tracks – 400,000

Behind The Mask (1990) – 15,000  equivalent albums

All Tracks – 100,000

Time (1995) – 8,000  equivalent albums

All Tracks – 50,000

Say You Will (2003) – 75,000  equivalent albums

All Tracks – 500,000

Orphan Album – 255,000  equivalent albums

Black Magic Woman – 250,000
Need Your Love So Bad – 100,000
Albatross – 400,000
Man Of The World – 75,000
Oh Well – 50,000
The Green Manalashi – 25,000
As Long As You Follow – 100,000
Remaining Tracks – 700,000