CSPC: Norah Jones Popularity Analysis

Digital Singles Sales

In the past we used to talk about album sellers and singles sellers, Norah Jones clearly fitting into the former category. Cherry picking download singles with the availability of all tracks all the time fully changed the game. For many music consumers, download tracks haven’t replaced former physical singles but yes previous catalog album sales.

Thus, although she had very little appeal in physical singles format, Norah Jones sold her share of download singles. As catalog items, hits from her first couple of albums are her easy leaders while most recent songs failed to attract many buyers.

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

Come Away with Me (2002) – 1,590,000 equivalent albums

Don’t Know Why – 3,400,000
Come Away with Me – 3,200,000
Turn Me On – 1,400,000
Remaining tracks – 2,600,000

Feels Like Home (2004) – 435,000 equivalent albums

Sunrise – 2,500,000
Remaining tracks – 1,400,000

Not Too Late (2007) – 180,000 equivalent albums

Remaining tracks – 1,200,000

The Fall (2009) – 270,000 equivalent albums

Chasing Pirates – 700,000
Remaining tracks – 1,100,000

Little Broken Hearts (2012) – 120,000 equivalent albums

Remaining tracks – 800,000

Day Breaks (2016) – 15,000 equivalent albums

Remaining tracks – 100,000

Orphan Album – 180,000 equivalent albums

Remaining tracks – 1,200,000