This is from Billboard.com
As predicted, Michael Jackson is once again the King of the Pop charts.
Based on preliminary sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan, the entire top nine positions on Billboard's Top Pop Catalog Albums chart will house Jackson-related titles when the tally is released in the early morning on Wednesday (July 1.
Jackson himself has a record eight out of the top 10, while a Jackson 5 compilation also finds its way into the upper tier.
The King of Pop's "Number Ones" will fittingly lead the pack at No. 1 with 108,000 (an increase of 2,340%) while "The Essential Michael Jackson" and "Thriller" are in the Nos. 2 and 3 slots with 102,000 and 101,000, respectively. Last week "Number Ones" was the only Jackson title on the chart, at No. 20 with 4,000 copies; both "Essential" and "Thriller" re-enter the tally this week.
Additionally, his classic 1979 studio set "Off the Wall" re-enters at No. 4 with 33,000 while his 1987 album "Bad" returns at No. 6 with 17,000. At No. 5, the Jackson 5's "The Ultimate Collection" debuts with 18,000. Jackson's fourth studio album for Epic Records, 1991's "Dangerous," re-enters at No. 7 with 14,000 while his 2001 compilation "Greatest Hits: HIStory -- Volume 1" also comes back to the list at No. 8 with 12,000. Finally, Jackson's 2004 box set "The Ultimate Collection" charts its first week on the Pop Catalog chart, arriving at No. 9 with 11,000.
Collectively, Jackson's solo albums sold 422,000 this past week. That's extraordinary, since his titles sold a combined 10,000 in the week that ended June 21. Of the 422,000 total, 57% were digital downloads.
Additionally, the 422,000 albums sold just last week is nearly 42% more than what Jackson's catalog had sold the the entire year up through June 21 (297,000).
Back when NYCD, my infrequently money-making music retail outlet was still in business, we experienced this phenomenon often. People who never bought a single country record in their lives would come in three at a time, "Hi. Any Tammy Wynette CDs," hours after hearing of her death. I found it irritating then and I find it irritating now. Last week, the only interest at all in Michael Jackson was betting on how soon his entire run of London concerts would be canceled. Now EVERYONE just has to hear "Beat It." It's just so unfair to Michael. He could have used the money and now you are all too late.
Some poor clerks in Walmarts across the country will soon be dealing with, "Hi? Do you have the second season of Streets Of San Francisco" on DVD?
8 comments:
To paraphrase the great yiddish philosopher Mel Brooks "It's good to be dead"
" et tu " Burning Wood ?
Leave mj to larry king & inside edition, OK ?
Did you read the post Menastreets, or just look at the picture and run? Stay tuned for some Lucinda.
Did you read the post Menastreets, or just look at the picture and run? Stay tuned for some Lucinda.
He could have used the money and now you are all too late.
hahaha
it's funny because it's true.
Dude made some great records.
I stopped at the picture.....
Boy, " homosexual sexual molestation " of young boys seems to be a non - issue in certain " factions " of this country, but not in my faction....
Sal, let's get back to Lu & Chip Taylor....
Is Michael Douglas sick? Oh, you mean Karl Malden...sorry, my bad.
(which I never liked as much as "Off The Wall."
Sal - this post reminds me. Back in the NYCD days, you had some MJ promo box set and I wanted to buy it but you guys wouldn't sell it to me on "musical grounds" ("Cowsills ok, but we won't sell you MJ"). To your credit, you kept it on the top shelf behind the counter for years, but all it did is gather dust.
If NYCD were still open, you would have ended up selling it last week to an unemployed banker who'd never been in your store before...
Bill
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