CSPC: Usher Popularity Analysis
Digital Singles Sales – Part 2
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between albums and digital singles.
Here I Stand (2008) – 1,905,000 equivalent albums
Love In This Club – 7,600,000
Trading Places – 1,300,000
Moving Mountains – 1,100,000
Love In This Club, Pt. II – 1,600,000
Remaining tracks – 1,100,000
Raymond v. Raymond (2010) – 4,095,000 equivalent albums
Hey Daddy – 1,600,000
There Goes My Baby – 1,400,000
Lil Freak – 900,000
Papers – 1,100,000
OMG – 8,800,000
More – 3,100,000
DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love – 8,200,000
Remaining tracks – 2,200,000
Looking 4 Myself (2012) – 1,155,000 equivalent albums
Scream – 3,500,000
Climax – 2,100,000
Lemme See – 400,000
Numb – 500,000
Remaining tracks – 1,200,000
Hard II Love (2016) – 90,000 equivalent albums
No Limit – 300,000
Remaining tracks – 300,000
Orphan – 2,895,000 equivalent albums
I Don’t Mind – 1,400,000
She Came II Give It II U – 400,000
Good Kisser – 350,000
Party – 300,000
The Matrimony – 350,000
Rest Of My Life – 600,000
Don’t Look Down – 500,000
Body Language – 500,000
New Flame – 1,200,000
Without You – 4,000,000
Promise – 400,000
First Dance – 500,000
Somebody To Love – 2,000,000
The Christmas Song – 300,000
Dirty Dancer – 2,000,000
Spotlight – 500,000
I Need A Girl – 500,000
Lovers and Friends – 800,000
Remaining tracks – 2,700,000
Here I Stand failed to sell as well as Confessions, Love In This Club was still a sizable hit with 7,6 million sales. The song enjoyed both, great ringtones sales and a great success in Asia. Those elements also supported hits like OMG and DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love, two 8+ million sellers.
With an impressive 27 million singles sold, Raymond v. Raymond appears to be much stronger in this avenue than in original album sales. If songs of Looking 4 Myself performed not too bad, those of Hard II Love had disastrous results.
Up to 93,6 million downloads and ringtones sold, Usher will need one more hit or several years of catalog sales before reaching the magical 100-million plateau.