Biggest Band Numbers: Beatles, U2, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Green Day
Filed under: News | By: Daniel
Posted on: November 1, 2007 | 19 Comments
When we spoke the other day about some people thinking Green Day was the biggest band ever and I thought it was surely The Beatles, we had a comment from Pat who showed us some numbers from results returned by Google for each of the biggest bands.
This is not the best way to find out who is the biggest band, but it is an interesting one, although Green Day could become the biggest band ever in time like many other newer bands.
Here is Pat’s comment:
Here’s the list of number of results returned by google. Now you tell me who is the biggest band.
“Beatles” - 55,800,000
“U2″ - 47,000,000
“Rolling Stones” - 9,890,000
“Pink Floyd” - 8,420,000
“Green Day” - 6,570,000
“The Who” - 6,550,000
“Led Zeppelin” - 4,940,000
“Iron Maiden” - 3,000,000
“Public Enemy” - 2,280,000
Look up anybody you want. Only U2 comes close to the Beatles and that’s probably because it’s also the name of a spy plane as well as only 2 letters that probably occurs millions of times having nothing to do with the band.
Now what do you make of that?
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…and Beatles gets millions of hits from bug enthusiasts, homeowners with pest problems, and people searching for used Volkswagons. Come on, U2 has this one hands down.
“yeah Sure” should may want to pick up a dictionary. I doubt so many are as confused over the spelling of Beetle and Beatles as he/she apparently is.
Yeh Sure, my home has a bug problem, should I call I Paul or Ringo?
To the first poster…. Hopefully people who are looking up the bug “Beetle” or the car “Beetle” would spell “B-e-e-t-l-e” correctly, and therefore not effect the Google hit count!
so I guess the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World are also the Biggest Band !
so the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World is also the Biggest Band!
I think the Stones rule!
and if you goggle stones,rolling stones you get 55,900,000
Googling ’stones,rolling stones’ get 55,900,000
“GOOGLING ’stones,rolling stones’”
And your point is? If you customise the search well enough, you can make Google return results that prove The Monkees were bigger.
By the way, since this article was first posted, “Beatles” is up to 57,000,000. That shows they’re not only the biggest, but still growing at an AMAZING pace!
78,900,000 when you google ’stones’
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