The album returned to the UK chart on 31 January 1981 , amid the New Romantic era that Bowie had helped inspire . It was followed by a reissue of '' Aladdin Sane '' , which spent the first of 24 weeks on the chart in March 1982 . After Bowie 's death from cancer on 10 January 2016 , the album reached a new peak of 21 in the US '' Billboard '' 200 . It has sold an estimated 7.5 million copies worldwide , making it Bowie 's second-best-selling album
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Death of David Bowie
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