Statistics from the US record market have revealed that In the week of April 15 to 24, 654 thousand copies belonging to Prince's discography were sold. According to data provided by consulting firm Nielsen Music for Billboard magazine, individual digital downloads have skyrocketed to nearly 3 million during the same period of time, which includes the 21st, the date of the pop star's death. . If you take into account the data from last week until April 21, Prince had sold 256 thousand albums, a figure significantly higher than the 5.000 of the previous week.
According to Billboard, almost all of those 256 thousand records were sold after the news of his death was known, the morning of the 21st in the United States. The case of digital downloads is similar - for individual songs - since last week, until the 21st, a little more than a million downloads were made compared to the 14 thousand of the previous week, and again most of the downloads. downloads were made after the death of the Minneapolis musician was known.
The detail of sales in the United States, according to the days after the death, according to Nielsen Music has been 227 thousand records and 960 thousand songs on April 22, 113 thousand records and 521 thousand songs on 23 and 58 thousand records and 301 thousand songs on April 24. Among the best-selling albums in Prince's discography are 'The Very Best of Prince' (259 thousand copies), 'Purple Rain' (152 thousand) and 'The Hits - The B-Sides' (64 thousand). In the case of singles, the best sellers have been 'Purple Rain' (326 thousand), 'When doves cry' (246 thousand) and 'Little red Corvette' (201 thousand copies). This Monday (25), the compilation 'The Very Best of Prince' rose to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, establishing itself as the 5th album to reach number one in his discography and the first in just over a decade.
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