Rock Band franchise joins $1 billion club

40 million songs DLC'd, crazy. It's like printing money for them. I paid for 1 song and that is my cap on wasting money.

great game... congrats harmonix....gives us some free dlc for rockband 1 as a celebration bonus ^^...plspls...your awesomeeeee!!!

Glad to see Harmonix get $1 billion in 15 months. Now gimme some Zeppelin!

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.... there neerly identicly haha.... a tad bit different in timing, and different quality instruments. oh and i guess the drums on rb2 only have 4 pads but w/e lol. HONESTLY NOW..... who plays rb to buy a freakn 5000$ jacket haha, and who plays ghwt to try to make a song and fail miserably!!!!!!! lol thats what i thought +)

i hate rock band

And by the way, RB2 > GHWT ???? EVERYTHING'S BETTER THAN GHWT!! BIG DEAL.

Who cares? Nothing will beat Guitar Hero 3 (or 2, for that matter). Best songs. Best engine. Coolest charts. No lame band crap. Not too much DLC. Best difficulty level. Simply the tops. Nothing will beat it... except if Activision decides Guitar Hero 5 will be a continuation.... we'll see. (holding my thumbs).

@joelgargan id like 2 see some devil wears prada, uderoath, bring me the horizon, slipknot, skylit drive etc. more music along the scremo side or at least me scremo dlc. they hav lik only 2 scremo songs on the rockband store... but 2 be fair most people dont lik that kind of music

@ monkeyluffy ur kiddin, right? cus u hear scremo all the time on the radio? no wait, thats most the songs on gh and rockband. i mean i lik rockband and gh but i get a little tired of the same over rated songs over and over again. but i do give rockband and gh credit 4 makin really awesome games though

I may be a war veteran, but if I ever met the creators of Rock Band, I would go up to them and tell them "Thank you for what you've done for this country."

@discjockey14 Please, tell me what music YOU would like added to the Rockband or Guitar hero playlist (not saying i like the current lists).

at discjockey14 if their was a definition for over rated and sellout music it would be screamo

Keep 'em coming!

Rock Band 2 >>> GH:WT

i hope they release a rockband scremo or a guitar hero scremo cus im tired of all the ooooooover rated and old songs that r always on the main ones, but of course, over rated and sellout music is wats sells...

That's some crazy money for the best music game I've ever played. RB for the epic win.

GH did not really get the budget or adverts untill the second one, but still a decent showing all around. one thing I am curious about is how much DLC they sold after GHWT came out, because every NPD sales number compairing the two games only count SKUs, and since we have seen that Activision perfers to make consumers buy seperate GH games instead of DLC, it looks like RB will be ahead in that department for some time

Hope for rock band 3 they add a rhythm guitar as well as a lead so you can have a 5 man band, or whatever combination, Also more songs and increased character creator and graphics, no more cartoony stuff

I've bought 46 of those 40 million songs

I'm more impressed with the 40m million downloadable songs sold. At $2 a song, not factoring in special pricing for album/pack bundles, thats $80 million right there. Damn near 10% of the 1 billion sold (assuming DLC is part of that 1 billion figure).

wow man thats just sick - insane money :P

Took long enough, but congrats

Yeah Rock Band is nice but I want some Raised Fist , Millencolin , Rise Against , Authority Zero , Pennywise .... I've been posting these bands for a long time and still .... nothing

Good work Harmonix, keep the dlc coming. I want a Audioslave track pack please.

Good job, Harmonix. :)

Pretty impressive, thought to be fair it's easier to reach $1billion in sales when the full package costs $180. But yeah, congrats Harmonix/EA!

40 million songs sold online?? Hey Guitar Hero, why does your online service sucks so much? Ah yeah, right, you keep on releasing games for $60, like GH: Metallica, instead of making it a DLC for the GHWT. Damn you Activision!

I probably have a couple hundred dollars worth of RB2 DLC. It's nice to know that they will be compatible with future RB's.

I don't like the Beatles, (not saying that they are bad) and I wouldn't ever go near Beatles: Rock Band. I don't think that was the best band to go with...

Great to hear, Rock Band deserves this success.

damn 40 million! I loves me some good old DLC! Can't wait for the Beatles!

I buy downloadable songs for Rock Band because I know I can play them on their next game. If I couldn't play them on their next game I wouldn't buy them at all

@frogiggy323 Agree 100%.

good job HMX you did in 15 months what has been done in 26 months with GH... btw 40 million dl songs is a HUGE number now waiting for 2010 and rockband 3 feat. Keyboard peripheral ;)

congrats to Harmonix. I love the way they run things (DLC every week, not making crap games even three months instead of a really good one year, although there is no RB3 this year)

Now it is time to learn the real instrument.

Good to hear :). Harmonix hit the right note with the dlc. People buy music games based on the tracks. not how many different plastic guitars you have

Way to go Harmonix. Keep up the great work :D

"frogiggy323 Posted Mar 27, 2009 6:38 am GMT -12 I'm sure after a year of relaxation, Rock Band will be back and better than ever. Unlike a certain game that can't go 4 months without a new installment." Guitar Hero?

Well of course the "Rock Band" franchise has sold over a billion dollars. Each box cost $150 dollars.

I just wonder how much they have made on DLC. It has to be an amazing number.

Well done Harmonix, a company with their head screwed on and not trying to milk the hell out of their franchise. Sorry GH fans, but this is how you build a great game and a loyal fan base.

Going back to the original GH game, Harmonix had to fight with record labels to get songs for the game, now they're beating down their door. Congrats to them, they deserve it.

I'm sure after a year of relaxation, Rock Band will be back and better than ever. Unlike a certain game that can't go 4 months without a new installment.

It was too be expected since this game was great!

Good job harmonix, DLC is awesome couldn't ask for more.