Songs from the vocalist, who died a week ago, took the elevator on the streaming platform; Black Sabbath also had significant growth
A week ago, Ozzy Osbourne left us. Since then, there have been numerous honors and demonstrations of affection around the world in relation to the Prince of Darkness, whose numbers in the Spotify had an amazing growth.
Since last Tuesday, 22, the date of the death of Ozzy, his catalog on the streaming platform has gained more than 6 million monthly listeners, jumping from 12.4 million to 18.7 million (via The Hollywood Reporter).
THE Black Sabbathband with whom Ozzy helped found Heavy Metal in the early 1970s, also experienced a significant leap: from 19.8 million monthly listeners to 24.6 million.
Such growths were driven mainly by the classics, that is, songs like “Crazy Train”, “No More Tears” and “Mama, I’m Coming Home”in the case of Ozzy, and “Paranoid”, “Iron Man” and “War Pigs”in the Black Sabbath.
Examples of songs that pumped
Music more heard from Ozzy on Spotify, “Crazy Train”from the album Blizzard of Ozz (1980), has accumulated 8 million new streams and now has 809 million in total.
“Mama, I’m Coming Home”which was one of the highlights of Ozzy’s solo presentation at the farewell festival Back to the beginningheld about two weeks before his death, he also took off. Music, present on the album At More Tears (1991), had 7.2 million new streamings, now accounting for 245 million in total.
In the case of Black Sabbath, “Paranoid” It is the greatest phenomenon. The song boasts impressive 1.38 billion streamings in all, 9.3 million in this temporal clipping only one week after Ozzy’s death.
Ozzy Osbourne’s death
The cause of Madman’s death was not disclosed. However, it is known that the singer’s health had been weakened for years due to a number of health problems-including Parkinson, whose diagnosis was revealed to the public in 2020.
In a press release sent to the press, the artist’s family stated:
“It’s more sadly than words can express that we have to report that our dear Ozzy Osbourne passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded with love.”
Then he added:
“We ask everyone to respect our family’s privacy at this time.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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