Whitney Houston re-enters Top 10 on Billboard 200

After the death of Whitney Houston on Saturday, February 11, Diva is "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" album re-enters the Billboard 200 chart at No. 6 Sold 64 000 copies in the U.S. (according to Nielsen SoundScan) a week to track, which ended February 12 - reflects just one day after she left the sale.

"Greatest Hits" was written by 10 419% profit on his sales last week, when it moved less than 1000.

Houston also returns to the list with his debut, "1986 Whitney Houston" (No. 72 of 8000, up 3901%), "The Bodyguard" soundtrack (No. 80 of 8000, up 5213%), her latest studio album "I Look to You" ( No 118 of 5000, up 3901%), 1987, "Whitney" (No. 122 of 5000, up 2274%) and "The Preacher's Wife" soundtrack (No. 183 of 4000, up 3913%).

Whitney Houston

There were more albums bought in Houston last week (101.000 - up to 5.994% from the previous 2000 weeks) than were sold throughout the years 2011 and 2012 combined until her death, paragraph 97.000).

The vast majority of 101 000 albums sold last week were downloads - 91.000. This is a strong digital sum is not surprising, since it would not be a relative few physical copies of CD albums Houston on the shelves in a brick and mortar stores. (Most vendors do not have a wide range of artist's back catalog.)

In terms of digital music, Houston sold a combined 887.000 downloads in the past week - up from only 15.000 weeks previous (gain 5.730%). Her biggest seller was the 1992 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single "I Will Always Love You", with 195 000 (maximum 6.724%). It debuts at seven-year-old Digital Songs chart at No. 3

Houston also arrives at the 75-position chart with seven other songs: "I wanna dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" at number 25, paragraph 74.000, up 8.769%), "Greatest Love Of All" at No. 32 (60,000, up to 7270 %), "How Will I Know" at No. 46 (43.000, up 5.767%), "I Have Nothing" at number 53, paragraph 38.000, up 5.179%), "Saving All My Love For You" at No. 65 (33 000 up 6423%), "One Moment In Time" at No. 74 (30,000, up 6206%) and the "Star Spangled Banner" at No. 75 (29.000, up 8.278%).

It is expected that the catalog of Houston albums and songs we'll see even bigger sale next week, after a full week of the impact of her departure is felt on the charts. In the next week charts will reflect the weekly sales, which ends on Sunday, February 19.

Our regular summary of the week Top 10 selling albums and songs will be available on Wednesday, 15 February) morning.