The posthumous album of the singer Johnny Hallyday, died December 5, 2017, sold 300 000 copies from the first day of sale this Friday.
"My country is love" , the posthumous album of Johnny Hallyday has sold this Friday 300,000 physical copies (CDs and vinyls), an outsized figure for the French market for a first day of marketing, announced the record company Warner Music France.
This very impressive figure is a record in the "Taulier" discography and for the recent history of the French music industry.
The biggest commercial success of Johnny?
In 1999, his album "Blood for Blood" had sold 250,000 copies on its first day of sales, before becoming its biggest success over the years with more than two million records sold.
"My country is love" , in view of this skyrocketing, could become the biggest commercial success of Johnny Hallyday, who died last December at the age of 74 years.
In the meantime, this record, which was set up 800-000 copies was exceptional in the eyes of the current music industry, "will not be far from breaking the sales record" in the history of French popular music for a first day of operation, according to a specialist in the sector.
Thousands of fans had made an appointment
After a successful marketing operation, the album was released at 0:01 this Friday in some stores in addition to being online on streaming platforms.
Tens of thousands of fans of Johnny Hallyday rushed to the record stores to get the posthumous album of their idol, "My country is love" , on sale at 800,000 copies and already beats a few first records.
By 1 pm already, 50,000 records had been sold in Fnac stores, according to a figure communicated by the sign. After 25,000 copies pre-ordered in one month since the launch of September 15, another 25,000 were sold in a few hours across the network.