Prince sold more albums than any other artist in 2016! His 2.23 million album sales even edged out chart-topping megastar Adele, who sold 2.21 million.
His bestsellers were the 2001 compilation The Very Best of Prince (668,000 copies) and his 1984 classic Purple Rain (498,000), with most of the traditional sales coming in the four weeks straight after his April 21 death.