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Rock Band DLC eclipses 28 million downloads

by Dustin Burg on Dec 6th 2008 12:15PM

After starting off the year with 2.5 million song downloads, then inching up to 6 million by March, Harmonix has revealed that the total number of Rock Band (and Rock Band 2) songs downloaded has eclipsed the 28 million mark. That's like an album going double diamond plus more.

With the announcement of the 28 million song downloads, Harmonix mentioned that that they reached their goal of making at least 500 songs available to Rock Band owners by years end. If you are wondering the exact number of DLC tracks available via the Music Store, it's 345 songs sung by 239 different artists. Congrats Harmonix, were were pessimists when you announced weekly Rock Band DLC releases, but now, after 55 consecutive weeks, we're believers.

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Tags: ea, harmonix, mtv-games, rock-band, rock-band-2

Reader Comments (25)

Ah, how far Harmonix has come. Maybe now they'll try coercing Robert plant into letting Led Zeppelin into rock band. Or maybe release some more songs from The Who

Seriously! 500 songs is impressive, but some of the songs they put out were kind of obscure and not that fun to play repeatedly.

I would be willing to pay more than normal for epic bands/songs with great replayability (if that's a word). 18 songs from AC/DC for $40 from Wallyworld is not what I have in mind, though.

i planned on buying that, but a trip to Walmart wasnt worth it. Problem is, AC/DC will never be DLC, EVER lol.

28 million songs at 99c per song? Harmonix is making bank!

Actually, it's more like $2 a song, so twice as much bank!

and actually, im sure most of that goes to licensing. even so, whats left over is STILL a lot of money!

Rock Band = one of the best games of all time. i've never had that much with friends while playing a game, EVER! thank you Harmonix and keep it up!

I love Harmonix.

don't we all man.......don't we alllll

I Hate Harmonix they don't enough metalcore bands.They should add BFMV,Caliban,As I Lay Dying,Still Remains,Haste the Day(the old band)

w00t! That's just crazy!

Harmonix is great!

Yay for Harmonix!!

You know, EA has to see those numbers and is probably thinking, "Why should we just distribute these games? Activision owns Red Octane. We should buy Harmonix."

So we'll see who loves Harmonix when that happens. And don't think there haven't been talks.

I thought EA already owned them..

EA owns Harmonix...
lol

Actually, Electronic Arts does not own Harmonix, MTV does (or at least I'm pretty sure).

MTV Networks is their parent company; Viacom is the owner.

EA is just a distributor in this case, I believe.

Glad some of you did your home work. Distribution != ownership. Remember, Bungie games will still be distributed by MS Games on the 360/PC side.

I still remember when they said Guitar Hero 3 would have the most DLC ever.
Haha.

You still remember poorly. 1st of all it was GH2. Harmonix didn't have anything to do with 3. Secondly they had no way of knowing Red Octane would be aquired by Activision. Alot of the plans they had for GH2 dlc got postponed and used for Rockband.

It would be close to 100 million if there were tons of Metalcore bands on rock band.

When is Harmonix going to realize that Fall out Boy,All American rejects, and 30 seconds to mars are not emo.Emo is Rites of Spring and Sunny Day Real Estate.The only bands that come close to emo is Saosin, Underoath(old band) and Hawthorne Heights.

So maybe I'm confused, but isn't 345 songs less than the 500 they are professing???

they are counting in the song on rb1 and rb2 disc

The count of 500 was always intended to include DLC and the on-disc songs (RB1, RB2, and AC-DC track pack). They also have another 13 coming out this week from No Doubt, next week the rumor is some country songs (but I bet we get other ones too), and they still have 2 albums, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jane's Addiction, to get out by the end of the year (assuming they hold true to what they said they'd release earlier this year).

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