Meanwhile, the Purple Rain soundtrack comes in at #2, moving 69,000 units (63,000 in pure album sales; up 3,101%).
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Following his untimely passing last Thursday (April 21), Prince’s classic works have been flooding back in to the Official Albums and Singles Charts.
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.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the USA based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
The placing of The Very Best of Prince gives the Minneapolis musical icon his fifth number one album in the U.S., and his first since 3121 debuted at the summit nearly exactly one decade ago.
SiriusXM satellite radio has actually done terrestrial radio one better by devoting an entire station just to the music of Prince.
A three-disc collection from 1993, The Hits/The B-Sides, re-entered the latest chart at No. 6.
The comedy sketch show remembered the “Purple Rain” star with an hour-long episode titled “Goodnight Prince”. The five songs from his seemingly never-ending catalog of hits that sold the most on Thursday included Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette, Kiss, Let’s Go Crazy, and When Doves Cry.
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An autopsy has been completed to uncover the cause of death, but it could take up to four weeks before results are revealed. After its release, the world saw Prince not just as a singer and performer, but also as a one of the most inventive rock guitar soloists of all time.
