“On behalf of Christine McVie’s family, it is with a heavy heart we are informing you of Christine’s death" - the statement on Facebook said, announcing the sad news of Fleetwood Mac’s singer passing. Christine McVie has died this morning in a hospital, following a short illness, NY Times reports. She was 79. The British American rock band, founded in London in 1967, sold more than 100m records worldwide, making them one of the most successful groups ever. Their best-known songs include 'Dreams', 'Go Your Own Way' and 'Everywhere'.

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie has sold her 115-title song catalog, including hits such as 'Don’t Stop', 'You Make Loving Fun', 'Over My Head', 'Songbird', and 'Say You Love Me', to Hipgnosis, Music Business Worldwide reports. McVie first joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970 helping them become one of the most commercially successful music artists of the past 50 years, with the Grammy-winning 1977 album 'Rumours' selling more than 45 million copies worldwide. Hipgnosis has spent more than $2 billion in three years acquiring rights to a vast number of popular songs. Hipgnosis’s filings reveal that McVie's 115 songs acquired in the deal generated $1.7 million in 2020, $1.72m in 2019 and $1.58m in 2018. Hipgnosis usually pays an average multiple of 15 times the annual income, which would bring the price to McVie's songs to approx. $100 million.

Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her songwriting catalog for an estimated $80 million, Wall Street Journal reported. Ms. Nicks’ sale coincides with the recent buzz around 'Dreams' fueled by a viral TikTok video. To put this in perspective, pop-rock band Imagine Dragons sold their catalog for more than $100 million, while Bob Dylan sold his entire catalog for $300 million.

Fleetwood Mac‘s seminal 1977 album ‘Rumours’ has re-entered the top 10 of the Billboard 200 after 42 years thanks to a recent surge in popularity, due to viral video on TikTok, Billboard reports. The album jumped from #13 to #7 this week, following its newfound popularity after TikToker 420doggface208 posted his viral video of him longboarding while listening to ‘Dreams’, one of the songs from the album. ‘Rumours’ had originally spent a staggering 31 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 across 1977 and 1978, which remains a record for an album by a duo or a band. The top of the Billboard 200 this week is reserved for Pop Smoke’s 'Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon' who returns to No. 1 for a second week with 67,000 equivalent album units earned. For the first time in over two months, there are no debuts in the top 10.

Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' has re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in four decades, following a video from TikTok user 420doggface208, who shared a clip of himself cruising on a skateboard, lip-syncing to 'Dreams'. The song jumped 54% to 13.4 million streams and saw a 197% increase in downloads at 22,000, landing at No. 21 spot, Billboard reports. The album from which the single comes, 'Rumors', jumps up the Billboard 200 from No. 27 to No. 13 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned, a 48% rise.

Fleetwood Mac singer Mick Fleetwood started a TikTok account and his first video is a recreation of the viral skateboarding video showing TikToker Nathan Apodaca riding a skateboard while drinking juice and lip-synching to Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams'. Apodaca uploaded the post last month, it quickly went viral and now has 22 million plays. Mick Fleetwood's only video already has 3.6 million.

Fleetwood Mac's 1977 hit song 'Dreams' climbing the charts again after a TikToker Nathan Apodaca went viral on the platform for a video where he's seen chugging a litre of juice while skating around town and lip-syncing to 'Dreams', Billboard reports. Captioned 'Morning vibe', the seconds-long clip currently sits at 3.4 million views on TikTok after being posted only five days ago; Apodaca's Instagram cross-post has an additional 3.1 million views. Apple Music reported 221 percent increase in streams of the song, while Spotify reported an increase of 127 percent and Shazam clocked in with a whopping 1,137 percent increase. Meanwhile, sales of the track have nearly tripled since the weekend. Apodaca himself is seeing increased success in the clip’s wake, as well - he’s received over $10,000 in donations over the last five days; he lives in an RV outside his brother’s home, TMZ reports.

The best selling vinyl album in the 2010s in the USA was 'Abbey Road' by the Beatles, selling in 558,000 copies. In fact, all the biggest vinyl albums of the past 10 years are older performers like Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Miles Davis... Only two albums actually released in the 2010s appear on the list: the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' soundtrack - which is entirely comprised of songs released in the ’60s and ’70s, and Lana Del Rey’s 'Born to Die'. The only album from the noughties on the list is Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black'. No album from the 1990s on the list.

Last year there were 16.8 million vinyl albums sold in USA, up 14.6 percent from 2017., marking the 13th consecutive year of growth for the format. 16.8 million is also a new yearly high for vinyl album sales since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. Ten biggest selling vinyls were 'Guardians of the Galaxy' […]