Friday’s Roundup of Bowie’s-No-Longer-With-Us News (And Bowie Goes #1)

If you’re still confused by why the world has lost its mind over the death of David Bowie, I can’t help you. But the news keeps coming.

1. Blackstar finished the week at #1 on the British charts, selling 150,000 copies. That’s the 10th Bowie album to reach the top in the UK.
2. Combined sales of all Bowie albums reached 623,000 across the UK. Ten of them are in the British Top 40. More stats here and scroll down for more info.
3. Bowie just broke an Adele online video record. That many people have been flocking to see what he left behind.
4. Pamela Des Barres, the queen of all rock groupies, tells all again. This time, she talks Bowie.
5. How Bowie influenced metal.
6. I’d love to see this: Arcade Fire’s New Orleans tribute parade.
7. The David Bowie tribute event scheduled for New York just keeps getting bigger.
8. Bowie’s groundbreaking freaky video game is free for the next week.

Here’s BuzzAngle Music‘s estimates of Bowie sales in the US. Official numbers for the sales week ending 11:59pm Thursday will be out shortly. It does, however, look like Bowie has his first-ever #1 album in the US.

Top streams in the US are “Lazarus,” “Space Oddity” and “Blackstar.” Add them all up and you have about 52,000,000 cumulative streams.