![]() ![]() Writers and hard-core rockers loved the album’s dense textures and atmospheric vocals and the Chili Peppers built a strong college and FM radio basis. Their debut album, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) produced by Gang of Four’s guitarist Andy Gill in Hollywood nailed down a brand of funk-rock and rap that became the blueprint for the next few years. In 1983 their reputation was so word-of-mouth that they signed an unprecedented seven-album deal – with Slovak and Irons making way for Cliff Martinez and Jack ‘Jewfro’ Sherman. Founding members Anthony Kiedis (vocals and lyrics), super bassist Michael ‘Flea’ Balzary, drummer Jack Irons and guitarist Hillel Slovak emerged from a schoolmate’s thing at Fairfax High – in those days they were rapping and rocking and performing improvised live sets that soon won them a following outside the school hall. They began life as a psychedelic hard rock troupe with plenty of funk and hip-hop grooves to call on. In the beginning, the word was Red Hot Chili Peppers with the accent on red-hot. But first let’s take a trip back in time to Los Angeles, dateline 1983. We have a select grab of their repertoire, including those esoteric first four essential albums, a live disc and the must-have What Hits?. They’ve won a creditable six Grammy Awards and mutated into a modern Californian supergroup, their various members being in-demand as musical specialists, producers and mentor/consultants. During an ongoing career stretching from the mid-80s to today, they’ve rectified that initial underachievement by clocking up sales over the 80 million mark. Their brilliant early albums were critically acclaimed and won them a fanatical cult following in various pockets of North America and Europe but it wasn’t until their fourth disc, the outstanding Mother’s Milk, that the Chili peppers began to see a return on their investment in hardcore rock mixed with blues, stellar funk and supercharged sexuality that turns their live shows into scenes of bacchanalian splendour. ![]() Most have been sourced from this page, which has not been updated in some time. Spotify counts were last updated in November 2022.Strange as it now seems the Red Hot Chili Peppers took a while to turn themselves into stadium packing superstars. Worldwide, the band have sold approximately 77 million records, and have been streamed on Spotify approximately 11.2 billion times.Īll numbers are approximate. Again, these are just approximate figures. Furthermore, single and album sales are separate, and will be certified differently, but single streams count towards an album, which then counts towards an album's sales figures. Individual physical and digital single sales of album tracks have been listed as a "digital equivalent". Consider these a guidepost: some of these numbers are probably only about 70% of total sales, and some worldwide figures wont have updated country-level figures handy, etc. This is basically as up to date as we can get, and for recent figures, also includes streaming sales (usually, 1500 streams accounts for one album "sale") and individual track-within-album sales.īut they're probably way off Soundscan don't provide public numbers all that often (and they only started in 1991) and sales figures outside of the US are hard to come by in most cases. ![]() Here is a basic list of how many records the band has sold for each album, with single figures where possible.
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