Breaking Bad Was Very, Very Good For Badfinger

NEW YORK (Hypebot) – Badfinger's "Baby Blue" digital song sales jumped +2981% over last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In the last few hours of Sunday night, the song was purchased 5300 times, compared to 200 the week prior. According to Nielsen BDS data, spins at all monitored U.S. terrestrial radio stations of "Baby Blue" increased +1175% on Monday (over last Monday).

Other Badfinger song lifts include:

Day After Day: +134%
No Matter What: +78%
Come and Get It: +81%
Without You: +260%

Total digital "Baby Blue" song sales increased 656% (week ending 9/22, total digital song sales = 900 / week ending 9/29, total digital song sales = 6,800).

For Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, AOL Radio, VidZone, Rdio and Xbox Music (the streamers who have reported for Monday so far), U.S. streams of “Baby Blue” increased more than +20,000% (44,000 streams on Monday 9/30 vs 200 streams on Sunday 9/29).