BuzzAngle: Prince's top selling digital songs on April 21st
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NEW YORK, New York— April 22, 2016 — Fans showed their love for Prince by purchasing a tremendous number of his albums and songs on the day of his untimely death: an amazing 230K album sales and 1M song sales in the U.S., according to BuzzAngle Music, a sales & streaming tracking service by music technology company Border City Media.
Prince Song Sales:
Total Prince Song Sales from April 15, 2016 through April 20, 2016: 18,821
Total Prince Song Sales on April 21: 1,055,911
Top 5 Selling Prince Songs on April 21, 2016:
Title Song Sales
Purple Rain 125,773
Little Red Corvette 89,978
Kiss 86,422
Let’s Go Crazy 77,763
When Doves Cry 68,536
Prince: 1.056 million sales in 4/21; Purple Rain 126k
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Prince's discography was responsible for almost 1.1 million paid US downloads on 4/21. "Purple Rain" was the entire week's #1 song.
According to BuzzAngle Music, Prince’s “Purple Rain” sold approximately 125.8K paid US downloads on April 21 alone. That amount, combined with a nominal amount of sales earlier in the week, results in the best single sales total for the April 15-21 tracking period.
While Billboard’s more authoritative data will differ slightly from that reported by BuzzAngle, the discrepancy should not affect the song’s chart placement. It will take #1 on Digital Songs.
“Purple Rain” was one of many Prince tracks to receive a massive sales boost in ~11 hours between confirmation of his passing and the close of tracking.
In all, BuzzAngle says Prince sold 1.075 million US tracks within the April 15-21 tracking week, with 1.056 million of those sales coming on April 21.