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Rock Band is most successful EA franchise

Loads more exciting facts and figures inside.

Electronic Arts has revealed Rock Band generated more revenue than any of its other titles last year.

The news was announced as part of the publisher's latest financial report. Along with lots of words like "strategy" and "challenging economic climate", it's full of amazing facts and figures - here's a round up of the least not interesting ones.

27 - Number of EA titles that sold more than a million copies last year

31 - Number of EA titles that sold more than a million copies this year

5 million - Number of copies shifted of FIFA 09, Madden NFL 09 and Need for Speed Undercover (each)

2 million - Number of copies of Spore sold

100 million - Number of Spore creatures created

8 per cent - Amount of EA revenue generated by Wii games last year

14 per cent - Amount of EA revenue generated by Wii games this year

30 - Number of iPhone games EA plans to release this year

300,000 - Number of subscribers to Warhammer Online