Prince’s "The Very Best Of" Tops U.S. Chart This Week

Prince charted 4 of the Top 10 albums for the week through overwhelming sales on a single day, Thursday, the day of his tragic death.

 

Purple Rain was second at 91,113. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, the new release from Sturgill Simpson, was the leading album going into Thursday and finished third with 51,802 album project units. Santana IV, the new release from Santana, finished at #5 with 37,276 album project units.

Purple Rain was the top selling song of the week with 120K song sales. Prince also had four of the 10 top selling songs for the week. The others were Little Red Corvette (#5), Kiss (#7), and Let’s Go Crazy (#8).

 

BuzzAngle Music U.S. Album Project Chart

(Friday April 15 – Thursday, April 21 2016):

Rank	Title	Artist	Genre	Label	Total
1	The Very Best Of Prince	Prince	R&B	Rhino Records	94,083
2	Purple Rain	Prince & The Revolution	R&B	Warner Bros.	93,113
3	A Sailor’s Guide to Earth	Sturgill Simpson	Country	Atlantic Records	51,802
4	Anti	Rihanna	R&B	Roc Nation	43,948
5	Santana IV	Santana	Rock	Santana IV Records	37,276
6	Purpose	Justin Bieber	Pop	Def Jam	34,220
7	Traveller	Chris Stapleton	Country	Mercury Nashville	34,183
8	Ultimate Prince	Prince	R&B	Rhino Records	33,198
9	Cleopatra	The Lumineers	Indie Rock	Dualtone Music Group	31,587
10	1999	Prince	R&B	Warner Bros.	28,831

Project units are used to measure the value of the album’s total performance by using the combined weighted equivalent of its related consumption types (album sales, song sales and song streams). To view the full set of charts, please visit www.buzzanglemusic.com/charts.

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