Backstreet Boys creator and manager Lou Pearlman, Vanity, Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane, David Bowie, Prince, the Bee Gees and Beatles managers Robert Stigwood and George Martin, the Eagles Glenn Frey, Leon Russell, Leonard Cohen, Jerry Corbetta from Sugarloaf, Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer, Earth Wind & Fire’s Maurice White, Bobby Vee and Mentor Williams (“Drift Away”) song writer, all left this earth in 2016. How about some good news… Who had great years? Who sold a whole heck of a lot of records? Let’s find out…
Top albums in sales 2016
1.) Adele’s ’25’
2.) Justin Bieber’s ‘Purpose’
3.) David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’
4.) Coldplay’s ‘A Head Full of Dreams’
5.) Drake’s ‘Views’
6.) Jess Glynne’s ‘I Cry When I Laugh’
7.) Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’
8.) James Bay’s ‘CHAOS AND THE CALM’
9.) Ed Sheeran’s ‘X’
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