Whitney Houston's untimely death has resulted in an enormous jump in sales for her back catalogue. According to Billboard, the singer sees six previous title enter the Billboard 200 album chart, the highest being her Greatest Hits package, which enters at #6 this week with 64,000 copies sold. The other titles include her debut album Whitney Houston (#72), The Bodyguard Soundtrack (#80), I Look to You (#118), Whitney (#122) and the soundtrack to The Preacher's Wife (#183). The total of all albums sold since her death are 101,000, up from 2,000 from the previous week. Houston also moved 887,000 downloads in singles this week. It's expected that Whitney's albums will sell even more next week when the full week of sales will be eligible for chart ranking. Obviously a lot of fans are rediscovering Whitney's amazing voice. Hopefully she is somewhere seeing how missed she is and how much we all loved her gift.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
WHITNEY HOUSTON'S ALBUMS STORM THE BILLBOARD 200 AFTER HER DEATH
Whitney Houston's untimely death has resulted in an enormous jump in sales for her back catalogue. According to Billboard, the singer sees six previous title enter the Billboard 200 album chart, the highest being her Greatest Hits package, which enters at #6 this week with 64,000 copies sold. The other titles include her debut album Whitney Houston (#72), The Bodyguard Soundtrack (#80), I Look to You (#118), Whitney (#122) and the soundtrack to The Preacher's Wife (#183). The total of all albums sold since her death are 101,000, up from 2,000 from the previous week. Houston also moved 887,000 downloads in singles this week. It's expected that Whitney's albums will sell even more next week when the full week of sales will be eligible for chart ranking. Obviously a lot of fans are rediscovering Whitney's amazing voice. Hopefully she is somewhere seeing how missed she is and how much we all loved her gift.
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