A week after his death, the British musician reaches a place in music sales list ever reached in life
The last album of David Bowie, “Blackstar” released two days before his death, reached on Sunday the first place in top sales in the United States, a commercial success that the British musician never managed.
According to Billboard, the compiling of album sales top US from Nielsen data, were sold during the last week 181,000 units of “Blackstar”, allowing you to dethrone “25″ , Adele, who held the top spot seven weeks ago.
The effects of the singer’s death in sales of their discs are not summarized to their last job. Nine more albums re-entered in the ‘top’ of the Billboard 200, with the “Best of Bowie” to reach the fourth place and the classic “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars” (1973) to the 21 best-selling album in the US last week.
Also in the UK “Blackstar” went straight to first place in sales top. However, this is far from unheard of in his home country: “Lets Dance” (1983), “Tonight” (1984), “Black Tie White Noise” (1993) and “The Next Day” (2013), all They reached the top of the list of best-selling albums in the UK.
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