Over the weekend a life long childhood buddy asked something that related to Foreigners first album. Hence, the feel good thoughts from those memories led to this post. As much as I loved early Foreigner, they lost me when they went a little more pop with songs like "Hot Blooded" and "Double Vision". But, these dudes "laughed all the way to the bank" and are the 17th best selling rock band of all time, based on the list below. Unbelievable to me!
Had a statistics prof in grad school who always said, "show me your math", so with some applied knowledge I'll "show you my source" for the ranking, especially after a member astutely asked for my sources on two bipolar studies I was mentioning in another thread.
They said rock and roll was a fad back in the 1950s. More than half a century later, rock ranks among music's most popular genres. Click through this gallery to see some of history's most successful rock bands, based on US sales.
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