Despite an impressive debut sales week from Beyonce‘s highly anticipated 6th album ‘Lemonade,’ pop icon Prince will still see a purple reign over next week’s refreshed Billboard album charts.
As reported here, his albums ‘The Very Best of Prince’ and ‘Purple Rain’ are #1 and #2 this week respectively based on sales amassed in less than 24 hours. With continued coverage of circumstances surrounding his untimely passing taking over television and radio airwaves, nostalgic fans have run to digital and brick and mortar record stores to pay homage to the fallen singer/songwriter.
Some of their purchasing power, as we previously reported, will be reflected in the updated Billboard 200. Get the details below:
According to HitsDailyDouble, Prince’s projected sales for the week following his death are as follows:
The Very Best Of Prince 220-250k album, 360-380k SPS
Purple Rain 115-130k, 125-140k
Hits/B-Sides 50-60k, 75-85k
Ultimate 30-40k, 35-45k
1999 25-30k, 28-32k
Billboard supports the aforementioned by reporting:
His current No. 1 album, The Very Best of Prince, could sell over 200,000 copies in the week ending April 28. Its total equivalent album unit figure could be over 350,000 — thanks to the sales and streams of its well-known tracks (including the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits “Let’s Go Crazy” and “When Doves Cry”).
As we’ve already stressed, the Grammy winning musical genius is seeing numbers based solely on traditional sales and streaming one one outlet (Tidal). We are scared to even imagine what the figures above would look like if Prince would have allowed his catalog to be widely available to all major streaming outlets (VEVO, Spotify, Pandora, etc.).