Popularity
CMX are practically unknown outside Finland. However, Billy Gould of Faith No More produced their 1998 album Vainajala. In Finland, CMX has won the Rumba magazine "Band of the Year" reader poll ten times. In 2005, the band was even voted the "Best Band of All Time" by the magazine's readers, in favour of such bands as The Beatles, Metallica, Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden. In a City magazine poll, they were voted the best Finnish band of all time. In a Helsingin Sanomat reader poll in 2007, the readers voted both "Ruoste" and "Kultanaamio" into the top 10 of Finnish rock songs. CMX were the only band to have two songs in the top 10.
Ten CMX albums, including their both compilations, have been certified gold, each having sold approximately 20 000 copies. CMX DVD has also reached the gold record threshold for DVDs, which is 5 000 copies. The platinum record threshold for albums in Finland, which none of the band's albums have achieved, is 30 000 copies sold.
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