It’s not Rihanna, nor David Bowie, not even Drake. You’ll probably never guess it.
Despite Drake topping the year’s streaming charts, it’s in fact Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who has shifted the highest number of CD sales in the US during 2016.
According to Billboard, the 200-disc Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition box set has shifted upwards of 6,250 copies. That’s 1.25 million CDs sold in total.
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The 240-hour boxset came out at the end of October, with label Universal describing it as “most authoritative, complete and scholarly box set ever devoted to the work of a single composer”.
“It is wonderful to see the reaction to this box set, which is the fruit of years of scholarship, planning and curation,” said Paul Moseley, UMG’s director of Mozart 225. “Mozart’s immortal melodies, no less than The Beatles or Abba, are in some way part of all our lives – and this Edition is the perfect way to celebrate that on his 225th anniversary.”
Watch Paul Moseley describing the contents inside the box set.
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