Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Amy Winehouse CDs, LPs Sell Like Crazy Even Though She Never Came to U.S.

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Death has turned Amy Winehouse into a bestseller again. But in physical product, not digital. Since her death on Friday, Amy’s CDs and even her vinyl LPs are selling like crazy. The albums “Frank” and “Back in Black” in all forms are selling like crazy on amazon.com, pushing them up the charts to the top 10. Even the “Back in Black” vinyl edition has jumped. It does like everyone wants a souvenir — but an actual one, not a digital one. According to the ITunes charts, none of Winehouse’s music has made a dent on their charts. It’s not the same at amazon, where the MP3 download charts show “Back in Black” at number 3. Look for everything related to Winehouse to sell like crazy for the rest of this week. It’s always the same when a celebrity dies, and it’s a shame. And the whole thing with Winehouse is even more curious considering she never set foot in the U.S. following her breakthough in 2007. For the 2008 Grammy Awards she was denied a US visa. Her performance was on satellite from London.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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