Johnny Hallyday. His posthumous album is already diamond disc with over 600,000 sales

In just three days, Johnny Hallyday's posthumous album broke records by becoming a diamond disc with more than 600,000 copies sold. His record company has planned the production of new albums to satisfy the demand of fans.

Diamond disc in three days: "My country is love", the posthumous album of Johnny Hallyday, has sold 631,473 physical copies (CDs and vinyls) since its release on Friday, a historical figure in France , announced Monday at AFP Warner Music France.

"We are facing historical sales, which certify My country is love, Johnny's 51st opus, diamond disc , " said Thierry Chassagne, boss of Warner, without being able to say if such a score in so little time is an absolute record in the history of the French record.This figure refers to the period of "mid-week", that is to say the window between Friday morning (0H01 even for some stores) and Sunday night.

At the end of its first day of marketing, the album had already reached the extraordinary bar of 300,000 physical sales. A record for Johnny's record, which had sold 250,000 copies in 24 hours of "Blood for Blood" in 1999.

The manufacture of new CDs is launched

"A lot of stores were out of stock as early as Friday night. And all the vinyl records that we put on sale, namely 25,000 copies, were sold as early as Friday morning, " said Thierry Chassagne, adding that " other vinyls will be repressed for the third week of November . " Given that three-quarters of the 800,000 disks in place have been sold, Warner has also relaunched the production of new CDs.

7 million views on YouTube

On streaming platforms, Johnny is also very strong since he has accumulated 7 million plays since Friday, a progression of 1000% compared to his previous album, "Of love", released in 2015.Other figure eloquent, "My country is love" cumulates 7 million views on the YouTube platform, on which it is possible to listen to the entire album and see in particular the clip of "I'll talk to the devil" ( 1.8 million views alone).

In view of this skyrocketing, the disc could become the biggest commercial success of Johnny Hallyday, who died last December at the age of 74 years. A fortiori while the pre-Christmas period is opening, traditionally the most glamorous of the year for the sector (40% of the turnover).