The late Amy Winehouse's breakthrough album "Back to Black," as well as a number of her singles, are staging a return to the Billboard charts this week.
The new Billboard 200 albums chart -- which will be revealed on Wednesday (July 27) and reflects the sales tracking week that ended on Sunday night -- should see "Back to Black" re-enter the top 20, with as many as 20,000 - 25,000 copies sold in the U.S. That figure mostly reflects sales from over the weekend, after news of her death on Saturday reached fans.
In the week previous, the set moved just a little over 1,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Her next biggest sellers look to be "You Know I'm No Good" (around 15,000), "Back to Black" (over 10,000), "Valerie" (10,000) and "Tears Dry On Their Own" (perhaps 5,000).
Combined, all of her available songs last week sold an estimated 100,000 downloads. If that number holds, it will represent
a whopping 1,800% gain from what her songs sold the week previous: 5,000 according to SoundScan.
The video for "Rehab" also saw a major jump in plays on both YouTube and VEVO following the news of her passing. Since Saturday, the clip has since earned more than 4 million views on the video sharing sites. That sum accounts for nearly half of its overall 8 million total views.
In the days leading up to her death, the artist's collected videos averaged 48,000 plays a day on VEVO.
On Saturday July 5, she gained over 5.7 million plays, according to data analyics firm Next Big Sound.
Radio airplay for "Rehab" has additionally surged. On Saturday it received 173 plays on 119 stations (of the more than 1,200 stations monitored for the Billboard Hot 100), according to Nielsen BDS. The spins translated to a one-day audience of 1.4 million, with pop, AC, alternative, triple A and R&B formats all playing the song.
How vastly was airplay up for "Rehab" Saturday? By comparison, on Friday, it had been played a mere five times on a total of five stations, a single-digit sum in line with its recent airplay.
After Saturday's spike, airplay for "Rehab" was back down sharply yesterday (although still significantly higher than before her death) to 38 plays on 30 stations,
which amounted to 171,000 in audience.
The charts will continue to feel the impact of her passing next week -- once a full week's worth of sales, radio airplay and streaming data have been registered.
