In recent years, Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse's deaths have both sparked an immediate and drastic uptick in album sales. Now Whitney Houston's passing has done the same.
On Amazon, 7 of the top 10 albums are Whitney Houston's -- her greatest hits collection, "The Bodyguard" and "The Preacher's Wife" soundtracks among them -- and 20 of the top 100 iTunes song downloads are Houston's as well.
On the Billboard charts, six of Houston's albums cracked the top 200, and her "Greatest Hits" collection broke into the top 10. Billboard reported that there were 101,000 Houston albums purchased in the last week, which was more than had been sold in all of 2011 and 2012 combined. Billboard also noted that they expect Houston music to surge on the charts even more next week.
In the UK, fans were up in arms over a sudden iTunes price hike of two Houston albums, which Sony is now saying was a "mistake."
?Whitney Houston product was mistakenly mispriced on the U.K. iTunes store on Sunday,? The New York Times reported a statement by Sony as saying. ?When discovered, the mistake was immediately corrected. We apologize for any offense caused.?
The price hikes occurred on Sunday, the day after her death was reported, when Houston's "The Ultimate Collection" was up-ticked 60 percent, from $7.85 to about $12.50, and her "Greatest Hits" rose from $12.50 to $15.67.
The Times spoke with Sony executives who asked to remain anonymous, but chalked the mistake up to a "Sony employee in Britain" who made the error without their consent.
When Twitter users learned of the price hike, many called for a "Boycott" of Sony.
Houston's private funeral will be held this Saturday at her childhood church in Newark, New Jersey.
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