Mayer continued by explaining how he applied that way of thinking to the creative process behind 'Sob Rock', saying: “I made a record that, to me at the time – only in a way to coax something out of me that I wouldn't have normally done – [I] 'shitpost' a record. It's called 'Sob Rock' because it's a 'shitpost'.

John Mayer, in full John Clayton Mayer, (born October 16, 1977, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.), American singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose melodic, often soft rock earned him a wide audience and a number of Grammy Awards in the early 21st century.

Elias Leight. John Mayer's Sob Rock comes with an old-fashioned price sticker on the cover, as if it's an LP from the Eighties, and it launched at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart thanks to deluge of old-fashioned sales - more than 56,000 copies, close to 22,000 of which were vinyl.

John Mayer, days before the release of his newest album, Sob Rock, told Zane Lowe in a new interview that the inspiration behind it wasn't to pay homage to the previous '80s boys of summer but rather that he wanted to gravitate away from what he thought was “cool” in our post-pandemic world.

The song may have been written about John Mayer, because the tabloids had speculated that they were dating and according to them, they had broken up shortly before the song was released. The song could've been about another John who Taylor had been dating in secret or before she became famous.

Mayer's album succeeded not just on the sale front but with healthy streams. Although it didn't quite do hip-hop numbers in that particular department, “Sob Rock” still attracted 26.9 individual song streams on top of the 56,700 albums sold and 9,200 track downloads.

Swift and Mayer first connected in 2009, when they collaborated on his single "Half of My Heart." The musicians went on to perform together a handful of times, sparking romance rumors as Swift moved on from her relationship with her Valentine's Day costar Taylor Lautner.

Swift and Mayer first connected in 2009, when they collaborated on his single "Half of My Heart." The musicians went on to perform together a handful of times, sparking romance rumors as Swift moved on from her relationship with her Valentine's Day costar Taylor Lautner.

Taylor and John dated briefly between 2009 and 2010, when she was 19 and he was 32. A sore point that scored its own famously heart-breaking lyric in the song Dear John.

When it comes to international album sales, Thriller reigns supreme, with an estimated 70 million copies sold. In the U.S., it remains No. 2, but still, from start to finish, it is one of the greatest pop-rock records ever released.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, British rock band The Beatles are top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, with 183 million units certified sales.