The 17-song greatest hits album, “The Very Best of Prince”, led the pack, with more than 250,000 sales in the three days after his death.
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Prince’s 1984 album Purple Rain came in at number two, with 69,000 units sold, and the singer’s 1993 box-set The Hits/The B-Sides reached number six with 41,000 units sold.
Following his tragic death last week, Prince is proving himself to still be one of the biggest chart-toppers after sales of his albums and songs sky-rocketed following the news. He also sold more than 1 million tracks on Thursday, according to sales and streaming tracking service BuzzAngle Music.
The Top 5 includes Prince’s albums The Very Best Of, Ultimate, Purple Rain, The Hits / The B-Sides, and Sign O’ The Times.
Prince died in his Minnesota home on April 21.
In total, 16 of Prince’s classic albums have re-entered the UK Top 100 with five of these inside the Top 40. It is also his first No. 1 album since 2006’s 3121. Please know that during these most hard days I have spent my time with my close friend and media consultant Elliot Mintz. This week it’s at the top, marking Prince’s first #1 album in 10 years, and his fifth overall. Last week his albums only sold 5,000 copies.
Fans have responded to Prince’s death by buying his music and sending back to the top of the album and digital charts. In a 2013 Billboard story, Prince told a reporter that he employs “a team of female black lawyers who keep an eye on such transgressions”, seeking out and taking down Prince videos or performance footage posted online.
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Prince famously hated streaming services, like Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud and other services, and he pulled all his music from all these streaming services, apart from Jay Z’s Tidal.
