Deftones’ Fan-Favorite Album Gains Nearly 11,000% In Sales

As fans wait to potentially hear more from Deftones, the rock band has given them something special to enjoy—though not new music. The group recently re-released their B-Sides and Rarities compilation, and their most ardent supporters rushed to buy it on a new format, turning it into a huge sales win all over again.

In the past tracking week, B-Sides and Rarities sold a little more than 2,700 copies in the U.S. According to Luminate, the same effort managed a little more than 20 copies the period before.

Those numbers underline the fact that B-Sides and Rarities was not performing well until it was re-released—though that’s not unusual for a title that was originally shared many years ago. Once fans were given another reason to buy it, they complied, helping the set’s sales figure explode by 10,844% from one week to the next.

Deftones recently put up for sale physical copies of B-Sides and Rarities, which their following was clearly interested in owning. While digital downloads, and then streaming, took over the music industry in the past few decades, sales of CDs, and especially vinyl, have become popular once more, and these kinds of re-releases are common in today’s music economy.

B-Sides and Rarities was recently released on both CD and a double vinyl. Luminate doesn’t break down sales figures by format, so it’s not clear how many of each type were purchased by Deftones lovers in the U.S.

The hard rockers released B-Sides and Rarities in the fall of 2005. The set features tracks recorded by the band between 1995 and the year it dropped. The compilation includes B-sides that had been shared by the group previously, as well as very rare cuts that hadn’t been made readily available before the title dropped.

B-Sides and Rarities reaches two charts this week. The project reappears on the Top Album Sales list, Billboard’s ranking of the top-selling efforts of any style, on any format, at No. 32. It’s also new to the Top Hard Rock Albums tally, where it enters at No. 18.