Great game. First time I'm playing it through my Wii U virtual console. Don't know how I missed this on my original SNES. Currently doing a video playthrough of the game.

So I climbed to #10 in the US now. Don't know where Europe stands at the moment (too lazy to start up my Wii U) but that's great and well deserved. I think we'll see it climb up higher as time passes.
Also, the only not 30 cent VC title beating it out at the moment is Super Mario World (there are only 2 items in total beating it out that are not part of the promotion, the other one being Trine 2), and that one is cheaper for many people as you get a discount when you owned it on Wii and transferred your Wii data to you Wii U.

Source here, also comment from the translator in the comments section (under the name of EBMarcus):
http://earthboundcentral.com/2013/08/earthbound-moves-up-the-charts/