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Rush music marketings has risen by over 2,000% since the death of the band’s drummer Neil Peart, figures have revealed.
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The visionary stickman passed away earlier this month( January 7) after quietly battling psyche cancer for the past three years, as confirmed by Elliott Mintz, a spokesman for the Peart family.
Peart’s Rush bandmates, singer/ bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson, shared a statement a few days after this death, calling Peart their “friend, soul friend and bandmate over 45 years, ” and said that he had been “incredibly brave” in his battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive shape of psyche cancer.
It has now been revealed that in the working day following Peart’s death, torrents of Rush’s sungs surged by 776% in the U.S ., according to initial reports from Nielsen Music/ MRC Data( via Billboard ).
On-demand audio and video torrents of Rush’s catalog of ballads increased to a combined 24.54 million from January 10 -1 3- up 776.4% as compared to the previous four days( 2.8 million on January 6-9 ).
The band’s most-streamed song during the same period was the 1981 hit’ Tom Sawyer ‘, with 2.82 million streams( up 305% as in comparison with the 698,000 flows it registered January 6-9 ).
As far as sales proceed, Rush’s catalogue of sungs was increased by 2,304% to 19,000( from 1,000 ), while the group’s album marketings gained 1,820% to 6,000( up from an insufficient figure ).
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins have shared moving homages to Neil Peart .
“Today, the world lost a true-blue giant in the history of rock and roll, ” Grohl said in a statement released on social media. “An inspiration to millions with an unmistakable seem who spawned generations of musicians- like myself- to pick up two protrudes and chase a dream. A kind, thoughtful, brilliant male who ruled our radios and turntables is not simply with his drum, but also his beautiful words.”
Elsewhere, Tool performed a live tribute to Peart during a recent concert in San Diego .
Metallica also shared a live embrace of Rush’s’ Tom Sawyer’ in honour of Peart .
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