Sales for all of Tupac Shakur's albums have risen sharply since his death following a drive-by shooting. According to numbers released by Soundscan, a company that monitors music sales, his current album, "All Eyez on Me," jumped from No. 69 to No. 18 on the charts after weekly sales increased by nearly 40,000.
"Since his new record came out in February, sales had pretty much dropped off to two to five pieces a week," said David Middleton, a buyer at Tower Records in the East Village. "But after the news of his murder last weekend, we sold around 60 within a day."
- Neil Strauss