The Rock Band Network has been up and running for a few weeks now, and by all accounts it has been a pretty solid success. Music has been uploaded, downloaded and played. However, that isn't how success is really measured by the big gaming companies. They measure success through cash money. In terms of cold, hard cash we have no idea how well RBN is doing -- officially.
Unofficially the folks over at RockBandAide did some maths and some calculations and some guess work and probably some sort of ancient ritual to the gods of money. Through doing these things they've come up with the rough estimate of RBN making $107,000 in its first two weeks. In comparison, RockBandAide says that "official" DLC should have brought in $161,000 over the same two weeks. With Harmonix and EA making a much higher profit on all RBN tracks than their "official" DLC, things look pretty good for the fledgling network. It should be noted that these numbers are most likely underestimating the amount of money made.
We aren't a major corporation, though. We're gamers and we don't want to know what is making a profit, but if our favorite song is selling well. To this end the ever persevering RockBandAide also guesstimated the top 20 downloaded songs for RBN. They're after the jump and surprisingly good as a whole.
Rock Band Network Sales Analysis [RockBandAide, via Joystiq]
- Bang Camaro – Push Push (Lady Lightning) (4475)
- Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies (Live) (2201)
- Five Finger Death Punch – Burn it Down (2066)
- Jonathan Coulton – Code Monkey (2058)
- Flight of the Conchords – The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room) (1598)
- The Slip – Even Rats (1564)
- Andrew Buch – Trippolette (1379)
- Attack Attack! – Stick Stickly (1366)
- Jonathan Coulton – The Future Soon (1334)
- Flogging Molly – Requiem for a Dying Song (1318)
- Suicide Silence – Disengage (1173)
- Steve Vai – For the Love of God (Live) (1136)
- Jonathan Coulton – Ikea (1111)
- Between the Buried and Me – Mordecai (1103)
- Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life '09 (1037)
- Amberian Dawn – He Sleeps in a Grove (1035)
- Jonathan Coulton – Creepy Doll (1027)
- Senses Fail – Lady in a Blue Dress (962)
- Steve Vai – Get the Hell Out of Here (948)
- 3 Inches of Blood – Battles and Brotherhood (941)
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11:00 AM on 03.21.2010
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Really? Not even Flogging Molly? :c
"In comparison RockBandAide says that "official" DLC should"
A comma is needed after "comparison"
Taking me back to guitar hero 2, in a good way.
Not even Steve Vai? He's been around since the late 70s!
Anyways I approve of this list.
Dear god, what's the world coming to... At least BTBAM and 3IOB made the list, too.
It should've been Deadly Sinners. Just sayin'.
And this crabcore shit is inexcusable.
I don't know how many "bigger" names are coming to RBN, but what we need are much more Coheed & Cambria, old Radiohead and Muse. And, in my dreams, A Perfect Circle. I loved singing/drumming Judith so much on Guitar Hero 5, before I sold it. I can't fathom why Maynard aligned his bands with Activision, of all companies.
Listen to. Meh I say
Are you shooting for some kind of record for fastest banned user on the site?
@Razak
Cool beans on this list. I've bought three of the Coulton songs on that list, looking forward to some artists putting some unique content in the near future.
I like SubPop's angle of putting up the entire catalog on RB, but I don't know how I'll be playing any of the David Cross comedy albums... They'd be great to see get listed, but hard as hell to play the "eating gold leaf" or "doing morning radio shows" bits on drums.
Frankly, it's a good initiative, because...so many songs. Sooo many songs.
Sadly Rock Band doesn't allow songs longer than 10 minutes long, thus cutting out many great songs from Opeth, and Dream Theater as well.
Still, I at least would love to see Metropolis Pt. 1 and Ghost of Perdition up in the stores.
Dunno if things will change with the new release of the public development kits though.
: ) makes me happy to see music like this get picked. Love heavy metal
I bet a lot of them just said "OMG STEVE VAI AND BTBAM" and bought it. =/
I'm officially old now.