The Most Played Blitz Tracks -- in Rock Band 3

[queuemark]

So now that Blitz has been out for a couple weeks, I thought it'd be interesting to see how popular the songs are in Rock Band 3...Using data available on rockbandscores (http://rockbandscores.com/popularity.cgi), one can see the total number of scores tracked that have posted scores to the Rock Band leaderboards, for both XBOX and PS3. Although everyone who downloads the export has all of these songs, some people clearly aren't bothering playing many of them.

The usual caveats apply about this not being a perfect measure, but the sample size is high enough that it should provide a good idea about relative popularity.

Here then, are all the songs from the Blitz playlist, from most to least played:

fun. ft. Janelle Monae – We Are Young (9173)
Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera – Moves Like Jagger (8976)
Barenaked Ladies – One Week (8756)
Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks (8442)
Rick Springfield – Jessie's Girl (7916)
Living Colour - Cult of Personality (7639)
Collective Soul – Shine (7008)
Avenged Sevenfold – So Far Away (6986)
Kelly Clarkson – Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You (6879)
Foo Fighters – These Days (6779)
Tears for Fears – Shout (6615)
Soundgarden – Spoonman (6546)
P!nk – Raise Your Glass (6317)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give it Away (6125)
Elton John – I'm Still Standing (5930)
My Chemical Romance – Sing (5754)
Quiet Riot – Bang Your Head (Metal Health) (5627)
Shinedown – Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom) (5349)
Queen – Death on Two Legs (5251)
Iron Maiden – The Wicker Man (5240)
blink-182 – Always (5075)
Great White – Once Bitten Twice Shy (4984)
Kool & the Gang – Jungle Boogie (4812)
Fall Out Boy – A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me” (4204)
All-American Rejects – Kids in the Street (3254)

A few things are noteworthy here: it looks like the much-maligned Top 40 songs on the setlist are there for a reason. Not only do they fit RB Blitz very well, but the popularity carries over to people who want to play them with plastic instruments, even if the guitar parts for those songs are not likely to be the most exciting.

Also, some of those low-played bands are ones that have been extremely popular in the past (blink-182, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, All-American Rejects). Are these cuts just too deep to have excited people? (Yes, I know they were singles. But weren't "Always" and "A Little Less Sixteen Candles..." like the 4th single on those albums? And the others were singles off the respective bands less popular albums)

I've got to assume that "Cult of Personality" is benefiting from GH nostalgia, right? Great song, but it seems to be doing better than I would have thought.

Anyhow, I hope others find this interesting. God, I love meaningless statistics.

[M_Robbins5]

Kool & the Gang – Celebration (4812)

You might want to fix this.

[queuemark]

You might want to fix this.

Whoops, thanks for catching that. I wager "Celebration" would have been a bit higher on the list.

[hodayathink]

For comparison, here's the list of the most played songs in Blitz by leaderboard scores (the top three are the demo songs, because apparently anyone who plays the songs in the demo gets their score posted to the leaderboard):


These Days 124735
One Week 117560
Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...) 101194
Pumped Up Kicks 26361
We Are Young 23243
So Far Away 23008
Moves Like Jagger 22312
Shine 21399
Jessie's Girl 20884
A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me" 20298
Raise Your Glass 19891
Shout 19841
Jungle Boogie 19790
Always 18544
Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) 18479
Cult of Personality 18417
I'm Still Standing 18282
Give It Away 18032
Sing 17695
Bang Your Head (Metal Health) 17513
Spoonman 17271
Once Bitten Twice Shy 16887
The Wicker Man 16538
Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom) 15957
Kids in the Street 15437

A lot of songs look to have similar positions in both, though there are some that are quite different (A Little Less Sixteen Candles being one example). That could be attributed to certain goals/achievements being easier on certain included songs, though.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

Sixteen Candles is also more 'bite-sized', even compared to the rest of the setlist, so it's good for Blitz.

[queuemark]

For comparison, here's the list of the most played songs in Blitz by leaderboard scores (the top three are the demo songs, because apparently anyone who plays the songs in the demo gets their score posted to the leaderboard):

Hey, thanks for adding this.

It looks like people really don't like the new All-American Rejects song. Personally I like the song itself okay, but I primarily drum and that fast disco beat pattern is exhausting and overly difficult for me.

Also, if those leaderboard numbers reflect total sales, then that isn't super-promising...Though it has only been a couple of weeks.

[hodayathink]

Also, if those leaderboard numbers reflect total sales, then that isn't super-promising...Though it has only been a couple of weeks.

It may help if you remember that there are some people buying this as a DLC pack that will never open the game except to download the song pack.

[CloudWolf]

Is RB3 that unpopular nowadays? The least played song in Blitz has far more uploaded scores than the most played Blitz song in RB3.

[Bront20]

It looks like people really don't like the new All-American Rejects song. Personally I like the song itself okay, but I primarily drum and that fast disco beat pattern is exhausting and overly difficult for me.

The preview makes the song sound worse than it actually is, but it's also really the only '10 song that also hasn't been a hit.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

Is RB3 that unpopular nowadays? The least played song in Blitz has far more uploaded scores than the most played Blitz song in RB3.

You're forgetting not every Blitz owner is a 3 owner.