The Michael Jackson Chart Watch

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"Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough" by Michael Jackson has reached 200 MILLION views on YouTube. This is his tenth video to achieve this. pic.twitter.com/bJhexahoBK

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) February 17, 2019

[BadTour87]

BILLBOARD 200
#87 (+7) The Essential Michael Jackson; 264 Wks
#133 (+7) Thriller; 354 Wks

BILLBOARD ARTIST 100
#59 (-4) Michael Jackson; 205 Wks

BILLBOARD CANADIAN ALBUMS
#95 (+1) Number Ones; 32 Wks

CATALOG ALBUM SALES
#13 (-3) Thriller; 455 Wks
#45 (-13) The Essential Michael Jackson; 289 Wks

CATALOG ALBUMS
#10 (=) The Essential Michael Jackson; 314 Wks
#29 (+3) Thriller; 432 Wks

R&B STREAMING SONGS
#22 (=) Billie Jean; 36 Wks

R&B/HIP-HOP CATALOG ALBUMS
#3 (-1) Thriller; #694 Wks
#10 (-6) The Essential Michael Jackson; 507 Wks

SOCIAL 50
#46 (+3) Michael Jackson; 227 Wks

TOP ALBUM SALES
#74 (-11) Thriller; 160 Wks

TOP R&B ALBUMS
#7 (+1) The Essential Michael Jackson; 93 Wks
#16 (+1) Thriller; 75 Wks

TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS
#48 (RE) The Essential Michael Jackson; 52 Wks

VINYL ALBUMS
#13 (-7) Thriller; 118 Wks

A pretty good week for MJ.

[Nite Line]

.@michaeljackson's "Earth Song" has now surpassed 200 million views on YouTube.

— chart data (@chartdata) February 19, 2019

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UK charts

Albums chart:
Number Ones: 47(+1), 382 weeks

Albums streaming chart:
Number Ones: 29(+1), 183 weeks

Ireland charts

Albums chart:
Number Ones: 40(-3), 331 weeks

[pierpinto1]

USA
Week ending 22 February
LW TW Artist / Album Label Sales Index % Change
-- 47 MICHAEL JACKSON
THRILLER
EPIC 2,296 --
http://hitsdailydouble.com/building_album_chart

[Laurendaccio]

USA
Week ending 22 February
LW TW Artist / Album Label Sales Index % Change
-- 47 MICHAEL JACKSON
THRILLER
EPIC 2,296 --
http://hitsdailydouble.com/building_album_chart

These are great numbers .

[Nite Line]

USA
Week ending 22 February
LW TW Artist / Album Label Sales Index % Change
-- 47 MICHAEL JACKSON
THRILLER
EPIC 2,296 --
http://hitsdailydouble.com/building_album_chart

Thriller has been selling really well over the past two months. It's constantly in the top 100 albums sales chart. It definitely must have sold more than it did in 2018, at this stage. I think a 34X certification isn't too far away.

[pierpinto1]

Thriller has been selling really well over the past two months. It's constantly in the top 100 albums sales chart. It definitely must have sold more than it did in 2018, at this stage. I think a 34X certification isn't too far away.

Worth noting that Thriller is consistently outselling the Eagles' GH on a weekly basis.
And track sales and streamings from The Essential, which is also performing very well, count towards Thriller as far as certifications go

[BadTour87]

Billie Jean hit 600 million YouTube views!

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Worth noting that Thriller is consistently outselling the Eagles' GH on a weekly basis.
And track sales and streamings from The Essential, which is also performing very well, count towards Thriller as far as certifications go

Maybe someday Thriller will be certfied higher than the Eagles Greatest Hits again.

[Nite Line]

Billie Jean hit 600 million YouTube views!

Great. I think Billie Jean might just be the most viewed 80s video on youtube, although I'm not exactly sure.

[travis3000]

Thriller should be way higher , I remember it had hundreds of millions of views before MJ died but then it was reset back to zero. By rights Thriller should be well over a billion.

[somewhereinthedark]

Maybe someday Thriller will be certfied higher than the Eagles Greatest Hits again.

The Eagles have never outsold Thriller. This has always been an industry and media conspiracy.

[pierpinto1]

The Eagles have never outsold Thriller. This has always been an industry and media conspiracy.

The more I research the more I starting to believe so.

BTW, there is no way that Eagles would have outsold Michael had the RIAA not allowed, in the mid 1990s, to count sales from music clubs into certifications.
The Eagles clearly benefitted from this new rule more than Michael did.

[pierpinto1]

Maybe someday Thriller will be certfied higher than the Eagles Greatest Hits again.

I see that happening