March 26, 2009

By By Antony Bruno, Denver

The Rock Band franchise has passed $1 billion in retail sales, according to the NPD Group. That includes the combination of the game software and the instrument controllers needed to play it.

In addition, MTV says Rock Band owners have purchased more than 40 million individual songs via the game, on a base catalog of over 500 tracks, not including the songs that come with the game.

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