CSPC: Foo Fighters Popularity Analysis
Digital Singles Sales – Part 2
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007) – 780,000 equivalent albums
The Pretender – 3,500,000
Let It Die – 350,000
Long Road to Ruin – 850,000
Remaining tracks – 500,000
Wasting Lights (2011) – 435,000 equivalent albums
Bridge Burning – 300,000
Rope – 700,000
Arlandria – 250,000
These Days – 500,000
Walk – 650,000
Remaining tracks – 500,000
Sonic Highways (2014) – 158,000 equivalent albums
Something from Nothing – 350,000
Congregation – 150,000
Outside – 150,000
Remaining tracks – 400,000
Concrete and Gold (2017) – 15,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 100,000
Orphan – 180,000 equivalent albums
Wheels – 750,000
Remaining tracks – 450,000
We already met the case of bands such as Coldplay and Linkin Park that had little showing in the singles chart until the digital years. On a lower scale, the Foo Fighters did the same. The Pretender joins Everlong and Best Of You among the songs with impressive strength, having sold 3,5 million units to date.
Both Wasting Lights and Sonic Highways had no such hit. They benefited from coming out when people were already using iTunes a lot, inclusively replacing the purchase of albums. Thus, all their tracks have relatively decent sales.
Over the course of their career, the Foo Fighers sold a very respectable total of 26 million digital singles.