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Prince Best-selling Artist of 2016!
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Final figures from Nielsen Music confirm that Drake’s “Views” was the most “consumed” album of 2016.
Meanwhile, Adele’s mega-smash “25,” released in late 2015, rang up the biggest numbers at physical and virtual cash registers. Neither musician, however, finished as the year’s top-selling artist.
Prince’s overall catalog sold more records than anyone else in 2016.
“Prince controlled his catalog, and before he died it had been available for streaming only on Tidal, so there was limited access,” he said. “For people who were demanding Prince’s music, purchasing was the only option for a lot of them.
“But it wasn’t like there was a spike only on the day of the announcement of his death, or in the first week or two after,” Bakula said. “Prince is one of those artists, much like a Michael Jackson, for whom interest on his entire catalog stayed up for the entire year. ”
Prince’s albums sold more than 2.2 million units, and Nielsen’s report notes that he was the only artist to sell more than 1 million digital and physical albums during the year. When taken together with digital sales of 5.4 million songs, the ultimately combined albums and track equivalent sales pushed him ahead of Drake and Adele.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...105-story.html
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