Nothing less than three decades, the greatest hits of 'Bob Marley & The Wailers', 'Legend' (1984) reached for the first time in history to climb among the 10 best-selling albums in the United States last week. Legend is definitely the best-selling album by Bob Marley and The Wailers, the legendary Jamaican singer who brought the reggae style to the fore in the music world. Just a few days ago Legend achieved a spectacular rise from number 100 to number 5 on the album chart published by Billboard magazine on September 10.
The main reason for this escalation of the Marley album was due to the large discount offered by the store Google Play, which lowered the price of the album from $ 9 to 99 cents (77 cents). After launching the special discount, they managed to sell 41 thousand copies (digital downloads) in less than a week, increasing their sales level by more than 1.000 percent.
The Legend compilation in 1984 by the label Island records it reached number 54 on the Billboard chart that year, and this week it managed to rank fifth. On a regular basis, Marley's album manages to sell between 3.000 and 5.000 copies a week and is considered the best-selling reggae music album in history, managing to sell 13 million copies in the United States and 25 million worldwide since its launch.
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