Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Ozzy Osbourne Rules the Charts A Week After Death: Top 4 Singles on iTunes, 21 of Top 100 Albums, Up 325% Overnight

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Usually after a rock star dies their records go up the charts for a couple of days.

But Ozzy Osbourne died six days ago and he is still ruling the charts.

Ozzy has 18 singles on the iTunes Top 100. He also has the top 4 of 5.

On the iTunes album chart, Ozzy has a shocking 21 albums.

These numbers come from solo releases and Black Sabbath.

His places on the singles charts has helped to drive everything else that’s contemporary way down. Mariah Carey’s “Sugar Sweet” has fallen to 49 after just four days.

There are similar numbers on amazon.com for CDs and vinyl.

Luminate shows a 325% increase in sales of Ozzy’s records, including streaming, just between July 22 and 24.

We’ve seen these increases with Prince, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, and others. But this one is pretty unique.

What a lovely tribute to a real rock legend. Also, it shows his popularity has never faded for a second.

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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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