Winehouse’s record sales skyrocket after her death

ArtsBeat reports: The numbers are in: Amy Winehouse, who died last Saturday at age 27, will re-enter the Top 10 of the Billboard album chart this week, with her music racking up greater sales in the days after her death than it had for the entire year to date.

Back to Black, Ms. Winehouse’s breakthrough second album, sold 37,000 copies in the United States in the week that ended Sunday, reaching No. 9, according to data released by Nielsen SoundScan yesterday evening. That was the highest weekly sales for the album since March 2008, two weeks after she won five Grammy Awards.

Frank, Ms. Winehouse’s less-known first album — it had not been released here until 2007, four years after it first came out in Britain — sold 7,600 copies. Along with the handful of her other album titles, including a B-sides collection and a live record, she sold a total of 50,000 albums last week, 95% of them as digital downloads; up until last week her album sales for the year were only 44,000.

Sales of Ms. Winehouse’s singles also shot up in the days after her death. She had a total of 111,000 digital track sales through Sunday, a 2,000% increase from the week before; the most popular track was “Rehab,” with 34,000 sales. Since 2007, Ms. Winehouse has sold 3.5 million digital tracks in the United States.

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