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LOL -I picked the single Lazarus to do this -David Bowie's Blackstar storms to top of album chart
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/15/david-bowies-blackstar-storms-to-top-of-album-chart<snip>
It has been described as his parting gift, a knowing musical finale before he bowed out of this world. And now Blackstar, David Bowie’s final album which was released just two days before his death from cancer, has stormed to the top of the UK album charts.
Bowie’s final album sold 150,000 copies in its first week, knocking Adele’s 25 from her seven-week stronghold at the top of the charts, and securing the pioneering musician his tenth No 1 album.
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Blackstar had already been on course for the top spot before the singer’s death was announced on Monday but purchases and streams by hundreds of thousands of mourning fans helped Bowie secure a quarter of the spots in the week’s Top 40 album chart.
A total of 623,000 Bowie recordings were sold this week, including 241,000 album sales. Nothing Has Changed, a 2014 best of Bowie compilation, shot to No 5 in the album charts and two other greatest hits albums – the retrospective The Best of 1969/74, and Best of Bowie – came in at No 11 and 18 respectively.
