Soundscan Surprises, Week Ending 3/31

Back-catalog sales numbers of note from Nielsen SoundScan.

“A recent review of music sales has revealed 2015 to be the first year where back catalog sales (18 months +) exceeded those of new releases, even with the launch of big name titles like Adele’s 25.”

— This is an excellent blog post about the state of record sales today, and the inspiration for a new semi-regular feature where we hand-pick a few weekly sales numbers of note from the Top 200 Catalog Albums sales figures, released by Nielsen SoundScan on Mondays.

2. SEGER*BOB ULTIMATE HITS: ROCK & ROLL 6,363 COPIES

7. JACKSON*MICHAEL OFF THE WALL 3,928 COPIES

10. METALLICA MASTER OF PUPPETS 3,544 COPIES

11. BOWIE*DAVID BEST OF DAVID BOWIE 3,349 COPIES

36. NIRVANA NEVERMIND 2,300 COPIES

53. PANIC! AT THE DISCO TOO WEIRD TO LIVE TOO RARE TO DIE! 1,967 COPIES

75. TUPAC GREATEST HITS 1,627 COPIES

94. PANIC! AT THE DISCO VICES & VIRTUES 1,501 COPIES

191. VARIOUS JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (2012) 1,066 COPIES

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