Following earlier reports, the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards helped drive album sales this week for several GRAMMY performers, including Adele, who's GRAMMY-winning Album Of The Year 21 holds the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for the 21st consecutive week with sales of 730,000 units, up 207 percent, according to a Billboard report.
Latin GRAMMY-nominated artist Prince Royce and GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY winner Shakira were among the top winners at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2012 awards on Feb. 16 in Miami with four wins each, including Tropical Male Artist of the Year and Pop Female Artist of the Year, respectively.
Following yesterday's news on GRAMMY winner Adele, the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards helped drive sales for more performers and winners, including the Civil Wars, whose GRAMMY-winning Barton Hollow rose to No. 41 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 13,000, up 195 percent, according to Billboard.biz.
The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards helped drive sales for Adele's GRAMMY-winning 21 as the album notched its 20th week atop the Billboard 200 with sales of 237,000 units for the week ending Feb. 12, a 95 percent sales increase.
The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast generated a record 13 million comments on Facebook and Twitter, a more than 2,000 percent increase compared to last year, according to social TV analytics company Bluefin Labs.
The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards posted the highest ratings for Music's Biggest Night since 1984 with nearly 40 million viewers, up 47 percent from last year's telecast and marking the second-largest audience in GRAMMY history, according to preliminary results from Nielsen.
