At least this thread hasn't (yet) degenerated into a slagging-off Rockstar-athon. :)

 

 

There's no point - everyone knows it's the worst song ever made. :lol:

4Music were playing rock music?!?! :o :blink: :o :lol:

 

Seriously though, if rock music ever got popular again, by which I mean in terms of the singles chart, (which probably will happen in a few years I would imagine), then this list would look completely different, with the higher sales and everything. Look at Fire by Kasabian for example. The song wasn't that big, but 2009 being a good sales year gets it in to the top 20.

 

My favourite songs in that list would be Teenage Dirtbag and Welcome to the Black Parade (after the first 90 seconds) for sure.

Actually, Fire was about as successful as most of the songs around it (Crazy Town, Alien Ant Farm, etc). It's only the mid-2000s stuff like My Chemical Romance and Stereophonics that is lower than they probably should be because of the well-documented low sales at the time. Although of course you're right that any future big rock hits will probably find it easy to get into the top 10 on this list.

 

And yes, the list of songs is ATROCIOUS (and I like rock music), but I'm sure it'd be the same for any other high-selling genre list, bar (pure) pop music. I mean, the best-selling hip hop song of all-time is I'll Be Missing You which is complete and utter horse $h!t, for example.

At the start of this year the OCC said that only three of last year's top 100 best sellers were classified as rock - from Journey, Florence + The Machine and Train. At least two of those sold over 300,000 but they are not in this list. So, either they have used a different definition of "rock" or the list is at least a year old.

 

The list is very new - otherwise SOF wouldn't be near 1.1mill.

 

Do they not count The Killers then? I thought 'Human' sold really well and thought 'Mr Brightside' was one of the biggest catalogue download sellers?

 

 

Chasing cars?

 

 

Also Razorlight, Coldplay and Snow Patrol all missing. If your counting Uncle Kracker and Bloodhound Gang, then surley they count :blink:

 

I'm suprised Bon Jovi sold 355k of it's My Life :o . A great track that it is, I didn't think it spent long in the Top 40.

 

Basically this chart is meaningless then. There's absolutely no way Razorlight, Coldplay, Snow Patrol and The Killers aren't 'rock' while the likes of Bloodhound Gang are.

 

Some of these have sold really well on downloads - 'Teenage Dirtbag' sold less than 555k in 2001 for instance, and Nickelback's HYRM around 420k in 2002 I think. And Evanescence only sold about 300k in 2003. Seems like Dakota and The Bad Touch have cleared 100k downloads too.

 

If Florence is rock then The Bloodhound Gang are! In any case most of the list is just pop with the occasional riff. But nice to see the list!

 

Teenage Dirtbag re-entered the top 40 earlier this year (in addition to strong cherrypicks).

The Bloodhound Gang are predominantly rock aren't they? But The Bad Touch is not rock.

What the list shows clearly is how bad sales in the middle of the decade were - "Fire" was no way a bigger hit than, say, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" but it sold a heap more. BOBD also suffers because there's no studio version of it on iTunes.