Prince shot to the top of the charts after his death - here's what people are listening to
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Though his status on Billboard's charts had faded in the previous two decades, in the three days following his untimely death at 57, Prince sold over 579,000 albums, as tracked by Nielsen Music.
That's an increase of over 42,000% over the prior three days, Nielsen said in a press release, and took him to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart.
The most popular album has been "The Very Best of Prince," which sold over 250,000 albums in the three-day period, while "Purple Rain" had over 133,000 sales.
There were also 2.3 million Prince song sales in that time after his death. While Prince was long famous for scrubbing the internet clean of streaming copies of his tracks, it seems like the strategy helped sell a lot of songs while people mourned his loss.
Here are the top songs fans were buying up in droves after Prince died.
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