According to recent estimates, late legendary singer, David Bowie’s fortune was between £135million and £600million shortly before his death. Sales of his 27 studio albums and more than 100 singles rocketed yesterday.
Bowie’s final record Blackstar, released only on Friday, is set to become his tenth number one album while classics such as The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory raced to the top of online charts. Within hours of his death being announced, Bowie occupied the top five positions and had 12 albums in the top 20 of the iTunes download chart.
Music streaming website Spotify said plays of Bowie’s hits rose nearly 30-fold and he is certain to follow the likes of Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and John Lennon, who all continue to generate huge sums years after their deaths.
Much of this was amassed during a series of enormously successful world tours between 1974 and 2004, but he also wrote more than 700 songs and sold 140million records.
The 1983 Serious Moonlight tour sold 2.6million tickets, with an audience of more than 300,000 for one concert in California.
Four years later the Glass Spider tour grossed the equivalent of £120million today.
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