Michael Jackson had three of the top 5 best-selling albums for the second week in a row last week (and he didn't even pass away until the second half of the first week). Here are the stats for the week ending July 5, 2009:
Number Ones sold 339,000 copies and would have been #1 on the Billboard 200 if catalogue albums were eligible for that chart. It more than twice as many as the album they put at #1. It is still #1 on the catalogue chart for the second week in a row. Including an album by the Jackson 5, Michael holds all 10 positions on the catalogue chart. Go back and read that again.
Thriller sold 187,000 copies and would have been #2, up from #3 the week before, if it were eligible for the chart. (Billboard is hating.)
The Essential Michael Jackson sold 125,000 copies and was also ineligible for the official chart. It would have been #5, down from #2 the week before.
Number Ones is also #1 in the UK and other places around the world. Michael is also topping charts in Japan with a special compilation called the King of Pop. It is currently at #6 in that country.
Michael's solo catalogue of albums sold 800,000 copies this past week, up from 422,000 the week before. Recall that first week was the week he passed and only included a few days.
He is indeed the King of Pop.
I don't care what anyone says. Michael was the greatest there ever was and ever will be.
ReplyDeleteyou're right. you caan at leest spel his name rite
ReplyDeletei feel like a snob saying this but i HATE it that folks wanna go buy thriller and his best of collections. i personally think that "off the wall" is his best work. many of mj's best songs were never released as singles. i wish folks would have bought his full cds to get a real idea of what kind of musical genius he was.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It's fine to get Thriller & Number Ones but his work spans greater than that. I love "I Can't Help It" & "Wherever You Are"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BQb2mIDuVI
to the asshole spelling police at 9:32 I hope that made you feel better to write that
ReplyDeleteMichael Jackson is a REAL icon, a REAL legend. I would say the same thing even if he was still here. Still hard to believe he is gone and regardless of what anyone says about him, losing him......hurts. I wish him the peace he evidently did not have while he was here.
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I am still sad about his passing. I am slowly moving on but this just shook me to the core. I don't care about all those people who want to make fun and say bad things about Michael. His music got me through some really rough times in my life.
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