Adjusted for Inflation
1981: Sammy Hagar, “There’s Only One Way to Rock”
Now: “There’s Only 3.45 Ways to Rock”
1968: Three Dog Night, “One”
Now: “Nine”
1987: Three Men and a Baby
Now: 8.28 Men and a Baby
1961: Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Now: Catch 230.81
1972: Alice Cooper, “I’m Eighteen”
Now: “I’m 135.08”
1969: Six kids in the Brady Bunch
Now: 52 kids in the Brady Bunch
1954: The Seven Samurai
Now: The 81.63 Samurai
1964: The Beatles, “Eight Days a Week”
Now: “80.95 Days a Week”
2014: Taylor Swift, 1989
Now: 2,635.54
1984: Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
Now: Breakin’ 6.04: Electric Boogaloo
1981: Tommy Tutone, “867-5309 / Jenny”
Now: “299-378-32.84 / Jenny”
1997: 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
Now: 15.64 Heads in a Duffel Bag
1989: Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation 1814
Now: Rhythm Nation 4,610
1988: Van Halen, OU812
Now: OU2195.31
2011: Fast Five
Now: Fast Seven
2015: Furious 7
Now: Furious 9.4
1969: Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Now: Slaughterhouse-Forty-Two Point Seventy-Four
1976: Mary MacGregor, “Torn Between Two Lovers”
Now: “Torn Between 11.03 Lovers”
2018: Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
Now: Ready Player One Point Two-Five
1990: Sinead O’Connor, “Nothing Compares 2 U”
Now: “Nothing Compares 4.8 U”
2006: You, Me, and Dupree
Now: You, Me, and Three Duprees
1966: The 5th Dimension
Now: The 48th Dimension
1992: Barenaked Ladies, “If I Had $1,000,000”
Now: “If I Had $2,235,844”
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Brian Boone is a contributor to Funny or Die, Someecards, Splitsider, The Chive, and Looper, and his work has appeared on McSweeney’s, StarWipe, and many other fine humor and pop culture destinations. He’s the author of several delightful books, wrote a musical about pirates, and came in third on Jeopardy! once. He will clog your Twitter timeline with dad jokes.