ABC/Ed Herrera“Shallow” may have won the Oscar for Best Original Song, but all the song nominees got a little sales bump thanks to the Oscars on Sunday.
Billboard reports that Nielsen Music data shows the combined sales for all five songs was 23,000 downloads in the U.S. on the day of the show, up 139 percent from a day earlier.
Lady Gaga’s “Shallow” from A Star Is Born saw the biggest boost, selling nearly 21,000 downloads on Sunday, up 121 percent. That’s more than the sales of the other four nominees combined.
Besides “Shallow,” “I’ll Fight” from the documentary RBG, “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns, and “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs were performed on stage at the Oscars ceremony.
The only nominee not performed was Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “All the Stars” from Black Panther.
Queen and Adam Lambert opened the show with “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions.” The Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, snagged four awards, though no Queen songs were nominated because they were not original to the film.
Sales of Queen’s catalog surged by 29% on Sunday, jumping from 21,000 to 27,000. “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions” were up 49%, selling a combined 4,000 on Sunday, up from 3,000 a day earlier.
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