How The Cars Music Impacted Following the Passing of Ric Ocasek - Noise11.com
Shares
FacebookXPinterestEmailSumoMe
Ric Ocasek

Ric Ocasek

How The Cars Music Impacted Following the Passing of Ric Ocasek

by Paul Cashmere on September 19, 2019

in News

The Cars have experienced a 3700% jump in sales in the 48 hours following the news of the passing of singer and founder Ric Ocasek, according to BuzzAngle.

In the USA, 6200 Cars albums were purchased in the first 48 hours of the news.

The biggest seller was ‘Complete Greatest Hits’ (3,551), followed by ‘The Cars’ (995), ‘Candy-O’ (444), ‘Heartbeat City’ (318) and ‘Moving In Stereo: The Best of The Cars’ (193).

Prior to September 15 The Cars catalogue sold a combined 29,000 albums in 2019. 88% of sales were digital.

The most popular songs were:

‘Drive’ (4,443 sales)
‘Just What I Needed’ (2,700 sales)
‘Magic’ (1,793 sales)
‘My Best Friends Girl’ (1,784 sales)
‘You Might Think’ (1,713 sales)

More than 1.2 million songs by The Cras were streamed in September 15. The previous week The Cars had 5 million streams.

61% of songs were streamed on video, the other 39% were audio streams.

The most streamed Cars song on September 15 was ‘Drive’. Across 15 and 16 September ‘Just What I needed was the most streamed song.

The Cars music was played 4,345 times on American radio on September 15 and 16. That was a 146% increase on usual play for the band.

Noise11 on Instagram

You’ll discover music news first following Noise11 on Twitter

Comment on the news of the day, join Noise11 on Facebook

Noise11.com

Listen to the Noise11 Music News channel now at iHeartRadio

Related Posts

George Clinton, Parliament: Photo Ros O'Gorman
George Clinton Is Bringing Parliament-Funkadelic Back To Australia

Funk legend George Clinton is bring Parliament-Funkadelic back to Australia in September 2025 with dates in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Gold Coast.

1 day ago
Paul Hester from the Peter Green archives
Paul Hester Mini-Doco ‘Hessie’ Goes Live To Mark 20th Anniversary of Paul’s Passing

26 March 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Crowded House/Split Enz drummer Paul Hester.

1 day ago
Frank Ferrer Guns N Roses perform at the MCG in Melbourne on Tuesday 14 February 2017. Guns N Roses are touring Australia on their Not In This Lifetime tour.
Guns N’ Roses New Drummer Is Isaac Carpenter of AWOLNATION

Guns N’ Roses have announced the new drummer for the band is Isaac Carpenter of AWOLNATION.

3 days ago
UK Subs
UK Subs Denied Entry Into the USA

UK punk band UK Subs have been denied entry into the United States.

3 days ago
Andy Peebles picture from his Facebook page
UK Radio Legend Andy Peebles Dies Aged 76

Former BBC Radio One DJ Andy Peebles has died at the age of 76.

3 days ago
Hoodoo Gurus photo by Ros O'Gorman
Hoodoo Gurus To Headline Party At The Point

Hoodoo Gurus will headline Party At The Point, an event to mark the 10th anniversary of Sandstone Point Hotel as an entertainment venue.

4 days ago
Christopher Cross at SXSW 2012
How a 30 Rock Christopher Cross Joke Turned Into A Song

Christopher Cross has been name-checked in The Simpson, Family Guy and Seinfeld but his favourite is when Tina Fey once made a Christopher Cross reference and Christopher turned it into a song and became the topic of a future show story.

6 days ago