After his untimely death last week, pop icon Prince’s reign on the Billboard charts is nothing short of magnificent and a befitting send off to the music royal.
As we reported here, the singer/songwriter shot to #1 on Billboard 200 within just 24 hours of news of his passing. Selling over 179,000 units of his greatest hits project on April 21 alone, the album sits pretty at #1 this week while his magnum opus, ‘Purple Rain,‘ follows at #2.
But, the damage doesn’t stop there. Check in below to see how the musical genius wrecked shop on the week’s competition:
According to Nielsen Music, Prince’s catalog of albums sold 654,000 copies in the U.S. between April 15 and April 24, while his individual songs sold 2.82 million downloads in that same span of time.
In the week ending April 21, his catalog of albums sold 256,000…
As for his song downloads, 1.04 million were sold in the week ending April 21…
On Friday, April 22, his albums sold 227,000 while his songs moved 960,000 downloads. On April 23: 113,000 albums and 521,000 songs. And on April 24: 58,000 albums and 301,000 songs.”
His biggest selling albums in the April 15-24 frame were The Very Best of Prince(259,000), Purple Rain (152,000) and The Hits/The B-Sides (64,000). In terms of songs, the best sellers were “Purple Rain” (326,000), “When Doves Cry” (246,000) and “Little Red Corvette” (201,000).
Check in tomorrow for the full TGJ chart check.
Damn!!!! ???
Block BEY
He deserved to die☕️
Why?
Where were all these people when he was alive releasing new music no one paid attention until he died
Damn!
KING.
Still so unreal about his passing, but eternally grateful for his music. For its him, MJ, Whitney, Sade, and Janet we’re the soundtracks of my life. Will be purchasing another album to my collections.
Slay King
SLAY from the GRAVE Purple one. r.i.p. ??
He was cremated, so I’m not exactly sure that his ashes were placed in a grave.
SLAY A TON my Prince!!!! I will always remember you x
This is really great for him. If “Purple Rain” (the single) finally goes #1 on the Hot 100 after all of these years, that would be incredibly epic.
I don´t think so but with the new rules about streaming since 2012, there´s a chance. I will always love you went as high as #2 in 2012. Like I said it should be a little bit easier in 2016. Still, I think it won´t happen. The album slayage is enough anyway.
This is mind blowing, I never thought Prince had this much of an impact but I guess S****** Blonde was right, Prince > Michael Jackson.
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Really miss the guy, he had a knack of seeing these trends.
But you have to ask no one bought this man music for years when he released new material and people ignored his music
That is a good point, it seems people are just more band-wagoners nowadays. Everyone wants to jump on the hype train.
Your point is retarded. S****** always said that when talking about talent for making music. Not about success. Michael was obviously more successful and his sales after his death were so much higher than this. So tell us how your argument makes any sense please.
Although before this events you probably thought Rihanna has had more impact in music than Prince so… I rest my case 🙂
Aside from Elvis, I believe MJ and Prince’s impact is ALMOST neck and neck! MJ is hard to top, he’s just surpassed everyone’s success (sales wise). I’d personal have to say that Prince and MJ lead the pack though (as far as male solo acts from the 70’s onward are concerned). Of course Stevie, Bowie, Elton, Billy Joel and several other are up there also!
Boy stop. Michael sold twice that amount in less time when he died.
Michael will ALWAYS be>>>>>>prince
Wow! Glad he is getting the recognition he deserves.
Just been looking at some pictures of Prince and he really had beautiful skin. I wonder what he did for it remain so fair and flawless, really wonderful.
And the best things is that his estate gets all of his money as he managed to get his masters back before he passed.
As long as they ain’t shady like Pat Houston it’s all good.
Wow! This is great news. These people are not playing when it comes to his music! He’s been in the business close to 40 years, therefore his music is “timeless”. He’s my favorite artists/musician, so I’m going to miss him so much. Much love and respect to the legend, Prince.
Can y’all believe there was a time Prince,Michael,Whitney,Madonna and Janet were the biggest music acts?I’ve been devastated since his passing but I’m glad I discovered,experienced,enjoyed and appreciated him long before he died
The rest are just jumping on the hype train but you’ve been ride or die with Prince since day 1, for that I respect you the most in this case.
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You’re the true MVP.
Thanks Lovebird…Have you watched this clip?This pretty much summarises the magnitude of what we’ve lost.. (start from 3:00 onwards)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
When I think of prince I see Dave Chapelle playing basketball on the Dave Chapelle show I’m sorry but my mind had to go there
I know. They don´t know what it´s like to have a mainstream music industry full of only talent. Not mediocre quick and forgettable beats with nonsinging models putting some “voclas”in them.
Whitney, Prince, Bruce, Michael, Madonna and on and on…
Times change we live in a technology era do you expect these kids should care about old music each generation have their own idol I hate when people come on here talk about today music stfu prince was a w**** man drug out sexual back then I’m sure people were up in arms about his shananigans back in the day technology and paparazzi was not out that time to catch these drug out celebrities David bowie slept with everyone crack heroin whitney crack baby please don’t come for today youngest those past celebrities left no good example for these other stars to look up to they were worst now yall want to praise these heathens as if they were perfect foh
Those are true pioneers that you’ve mentioned! It will never be this good collectively in the industry again, there’s only a handful of talented standouts these days! It’s sad that it’s not many to pass the torch to!
For you that’s your taste not everyone like prince music or his s** up pump wearing look just because he wrote and played instruments which is talent but not everyone liked those type of music and yall did not spend no money on his albums 20 years all of a sudden he dies whitney Houston was mocked slander when she was alive where was whitney generation supporting her black people love you when u dead look at aliyah she was slander all the time by her own people because I can remember aliyah was going mainstream I’m not,feeding,into your hypocrisy
Was up there with Van Halen as the GOAT guitarists of the 80’s
*sips lemonde* *spits out* ☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️??????
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That´s great. Only true legends!
I remember Whitney Houston sold one million ALBUMS the week after her death in the USA alone. Don´t know about singles but I remember I will Always Love You made it to #2 on the hot 100 in 2012. Just crazy.
When will Beyonce?
I don´t care when or if since I´m not a Beyonce fan.
His music wasn’t for everyone though.I wouldn’t be surprised if the bandwagoners deleted his music from their library a week from now.
I also don’t agree with the notion people didn’t buy his music while he was still alive.He was selling hundreds of thousands of albums,that’s pretty much what’s to be expected from an artist releasing 2/3/4/5 albums a year with little to no promo.Prior to his death,his music was non existent on all the popular streaming platforms.It was very hard for casual fans to get to discover him that’s probably why I never got mad when some of y’all ignorant jackasses used to attack me for stanning for “bootleg Michael Jackson” everytime I critiqued your faves when in reality those two are nothing alike save for the flamboyant lifestyles perhaps.
I’ll always see Prince as royalty! He’s one of the few artists that have a throne to sit on in my mind! When you measure impact, influence, artistry, talent … Prince will always be apart of a very exclusive club that rise to the top of the list!
Amen
YASSS LOVE PRINCE PURPLE RAIN IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SONG AND MOVIE SO LEGENDARY
He was truly a one man band. He was a genius because his music still sounds great nearly 40 years after his debut CD was released. It’s no shock that his music is selling so well because it’s timeless. They didn’t call him “His Royal Badness” for nothing!
werk daughta
When will Rihanna?
That m*********** was definitely not alone
I think he had back up from Jesus
When prince was alive I’ve listened to his music and his music will live on no matter what rip to prince