The Billboard, Music Business Worldwide data has shown that Streams of the catalogue of songs belonging to the late rapper, Earl Simmons a.k.a DMX, has gone up by Nine Hundred and Twenty-Eight per cent in the United States.
The data shows that his tracks raked in Seventy Five point Seven million on-demand streams (audio and video) on April 9th and 10th up Nine Hundred and Twenty-Eight per cent compared to the Seven point Thirty-Six million they earned on April 7th and 8th.
DMX died at the age of 50 last Friday from a “catastrophic heart attack” which followed what was suspected to have been a case of a drug overdose.
Before April 2, his songs were streamed between 700,000 and 1 million times daily. Between April 3 and 8, they rose up to 4 million per day.
In music sales, Billboard also quoted the report as stating that DMX’s collected songs and studio albums sold up to 101,000 copies between April 9 and 11 – up 1,036 per cent compared to the 9,000 sold between April 6 and 8.