Welcome to the Rock Band DLC Statosphere! The only stop you need to know about for the juiciest statistics on how well your favorite Rock Band downloadable songs are doing. Compare and discuss over at the Rock Band Forums (or wherever). NO MORE PIE CHARTS!!

Science has proven the two Duran Duran songs had a fair enough opening week, with "Rio" taking the top spot for the week. Well, you don't need a degree in Aeromonotical Phsyonomicaletrics like me to see that. However, can you see through the deceit of this weeks Cherry Bombs? Well, I am here to help you. In a consorted effort to be different the two Devo songs have decided to become Cherry Bombs, this was a completely conscious decision. Obviously! AHA, SCIENCE!! But then we have The Janitors.. Whom were half priced and still managed to be a Cherry Bomb. Doing only slightly better than Yomp. Perplexing indeed, what does it all mean? Hrmmmm, go go thinking cap. Haven't people heard this song on every car commercial ever made?? Great scott, the world mustn't be THIS crazy! Surely not. Thus, this stands as firm evidence that half price songs don't sell well. People don't want to pay $1! They want to pay $2! Consider this case solved, indeeeeed. Since I am a professional science type guy my opinions are not eligible for argument.

SCIENCE!!

We have a highly trained team of monkeys which were purchased off of eBay in 1999 during a Y2K scare. It's only after 2 years of rigorous training high in the mountains of Tibet that they learned to look at the the guitar leaderboards from the Xbox 360 version of the game. Diligently they look for the poor sap who recorded the worst score ever made on any given song. Then they proceed to cackle and write down the rank, it's kind of amusing.

Those answers get complicated. They are accurate, but only to a degree. There are a few problems: A) The leaderboards only go to 100,000 (not even highly trained monkeys can track beyond that) B) Some users might not even play guitar at all, or perhaps do not play the songs in a mode where the score will be uploaded to the leaderboards (such as being offline). This is meant to be a baseline and can be used to judge relative popularity since any condition set for one song can generally be applied to every other song as well. Since these numbers can only tell half the story, think of it sort of like a poll.. These are NOT actual sales figures, though one could construct a solid argument that they can be made in to estimates since everything should be relative. You can assume any given song has sold at least the amount presented. Does that mean "Cherry Bomb" sold 50k on the Xbox 360? Doubtful, right? If you really want to know what the 100% official amount sold is.. Well, you'll have to phone one in to Harmonix/EA/MTV for that.

These stats are only as good as the time you take to analyze them. In the end, it's best to simply use your better judgement.

The Cherry Bomb status is reserved for songs that perform remarkably poorly in comparison to other songs in the game. When this site started the song "Cherry Bomb" was clearly the worst in terms of performance, being a release day song yet also having the lowest lifetime total. It was given a special status as somewhat of a joke. Shortly thereafter 2 more songs joined the list that would apparently be on track to perform nearly as poorly (if not more poorly) than Cherry Bomb, those songs being The Mother Hips songs. They were given the status as well, and now it is here to stay.

Don't read too far into the status. It's not a commentary on the quality of the music, pushing my own musical opinions on to this site would be extraordinarily stupid. If you love a song that has the Cherry Bomb status then you should realize that when a song performs poorly in Rock Band that is likely that the song is selling phenomenally well in the game compared to elsewhere (itunes, etc). Maybe being a Cherry Bomb is not so bad!