The late, great Etta James makes a powerful impact on the Billboard charts this week, following her death on Jan. 20.
On the Billboard 200 chart, she nets her highest-charting
album ever as “The Best of Etta James – 20th Century Masters: The
Millennium Collection” rises from No. 162 to No. 46 with 8,000 sold
(up 149% over the previous week) according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Until this week, the R&B/blues legend had never gone higher than
No. 68, when “At Last!” rose to that position in 1961.
For
the week ending Sunday, Jan. 22, James’ overall catalog of albums
sold 30,000 copies. That marks a 378% increase over the previous
week, when her collected albums moved just over 6,000 units.
