CSPC: Usher Popularity Analysis

Physical Singles Sales – Part 2

As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.

Confessions (2004) – 669,000 equivalent albums

Yeah! – 1,200,000
Confessions Part II – 40,000
Burn – 470,000
Caught Up – 130,000
My Boo – 390,000

Here I Stand (2008) – 38,000 equivalent albums

Love In This Club – 90,000
Moving Mountains – 15,000
Remaining Singles – 20,000

Raymond v. Raymond (2010) – 24,000 equivalent albums

OMG – 10,000
More – 10,000
DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love – 50,000
Remaining Singles – 10,000

Orphan – 456,000 equivalent albums

Call Me A Mack – 25,000
Comin’ For X-Mas – 25,000
The Party Continues – 540,000
Pop Ya Collar – 290,000
I Need A Girl – 490,000
Lovers and Friends – 70,000
Same Girl – 20,000
Without You – 40,000
Dirty Dancer – 20,000

The era of Confessions was bigger with the song Yeah! being way more global than anything ever released by Usher previously. Thus, in spite of near-no US sales, that song sold 1,2 million units Worldwide. Burn and My Boo were great hits too.

During the following eras, that market went downhill. A few Orphan songs released earlier like The Party Continues and I Need A Girl sold decently.

In total, Usher amassed 12 million sales of physical singles.