Thursday, February 16, 2012

Whitney Houston racks up sales after death

Naturally, the death of a popular musician or artist in contemporary times leads to a resurgence of their music in the industry, with album sales and (recently) singles downloads flying through the roof. This "rediscovery" of music, as many like to call it, almost always follows on the trail of the death -- a true schooling on the realities of the music industry.

Though a morbid enterprise, it has already sent Whitney Houston's music to high positions on charts worldwide just days after her death. Houston's album, Whitney: The Greatest Hits has soared to sells of over 101,000 copies by itself, this coming literally 3 days after the discovery of her submerged body in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub as she awaited the huge Grammy event the next day.

Of course, speculation has run rampant: most are already convinced that this was the work of drugs, as Houston was known to have frequent incidents of abuse with hard narcotics. Authorities have not confirmed or denied too much at this point; they have not released the cause of death.

7 comments:

  1. There are rumors swirling about a 1500 dollar a day cocaine habit, but one can't rule out suicide either.

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  2. Now, you have to remember. One of the most popular songs right now on Itunes and other sites is I Will Always Love You. What most people dont' know is that song was written by Dolly Parton and sang by her. She owns the rights to it. So everytime that song is purchased, while whitney may get some, Parton gets the most. But stilla great song and sad that it happens this way :/

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  3. Its morbid yes, but that's how it goes in this things

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  4. Myself and my wife will surely miss Whitney. We will miss her beautiful voice and the stage precence she had when she was on stage. God had a better plan for her, he, brought her home, to keep her from suffering down here on earth. Now she will use her glourius voice to sing in God's choir. She was surely blessed and she will be missed by us. GOD bess you Whitney.

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  5. People just wait some great artist to die, to buy his/her's album. That's bad!

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  6. Just like Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse, people wait someone to die to buy his/her's album. That sucks, real fans already have her albums!

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  7. It always happens. When Michael Jacskon died, it was the same.

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