Re: Michael Jackson's Record Sales
This is totaly wrong and you cant persuade me with that! :doh:
A million sold from Motown Albums during the 90's is a conservative figure. Your acting like I said 5 or 10 million for Motown albums.
No, around a million for Motown albums is VERY reasonable. There were many Motown albums that were released during the 90's that sold in the 100 thousands.
MJ has sold around 97 million singles in total. And a good portion of that was during the singles released in the 90's.
And this all comes from very reliable sources.
To introduce this list of sources, I got a lot from chart expert Nelson(UKMix), who provided informations about all countries, searching and pointing out an incredible amount of official data, which helped immensely to know which artists are popular or not on areas where the data is very limited. The articles from Billboard and such referred earlier in this page have mainly been discovered by him, which is just a little part of his contribution. Edu(UKMix), just like Nelson, has been a great help for me years ago to understand precisely how everything around charts and sales works. Thanks to him too. Thanks also to all providers mentioned in the following breakdown of sources.
USA
Billboard - Chart runs on BB200 and catalog charts
Soundscan - Shop sales from May 1991 to now
BMG Music Club - Top 100 best sellers from their introduction to 2003
Columbia House - List of all albums avalaible on this club
RIAA - All certifications and their dates
Data providers: Special thanks to Hanboo who provided all charts and most of the Soundscan data. Other providers include Dane, Bks, Thebigham, HolidayGuy, Basil, SeattleBoy, Hur, Will231982, John2000 Borderwolf, Paul Grein's blog, Metalsludge.
Europe
IFPI.ORG - Certifications from 1994 to now and statistics of markets from countries.
UK
OCC - The Official UK Chart Company, Chart runs, Year-end/All time lists
Music Week - Shop sales data
Radio One - All time lists
Chart Plus - Full top 200 charts
Zobbel - Chart data and Market sales informations
Hitmusic - Year end charts and sales
Record Mirror - Year end charts and sales
Record Companies - Exact shipment data for specific albums
BPI - All certifications and their dates
Data providers: Special thanks to Hanboo, Oldbloke and Jimmypages. Other providers include Borobutch, Basil, Kingofskiffle, Dave, Martin, ManicKangaroo, Andy.
France
IFOP - Charts from 1996 to 2008, sales from charts
Fan Of Music - Chart runs and sales
Charts In France - All certifications and their dates
Infodisc - Charts from 1984 to 1996
SNEP - Organization of certifications
Data providers: Fan Of Music is the first provider of sales data for this country. All sales used have been provided by myself.
Germany
Chart Surfer - Chart runs from 1992 to now, peak positions before 1992
Alltime document - Include chart informations from 1962 to 1998
IFPI.DE - All certifications and their dates
Italy
Hit Parade Italia - Points based year end chart from 1965 to now
FIMI - Official weekly charts provider
M&D - Shipment data from 1986 to now
Data providers: Frankie, Zago, me.
Spain
Promusicae - Official weekly charts provider & certifications organization
Data providers: Special thanks to Davidalic who provided almost all the data about this country.
Sweden
Hislistan - Official weekly charts provider
IFPI.SE - All certifications (excluding the first 99) and their dates
Netherlands
Dutchcharts - Chart runs from 1993 to now, catalog charts
Top40web - Charts data from 1970 to 1993
NVPI - All certifications and their dates until 2006
Switzerland
Swisscharts - Charts runs 1984-now, certifications 1989-now
Austria
Austriancharts - Charts runs from 1975 to now
IFPI.AT - All certifications and their dates
Finland
Finnishcharts - Charts runs from 1995 to now
IFPI.FI - All certifications and their dates
Canada
Canoe JAM - Official weekly charts provider, sales of the top albums
RPM - Charts from 1970 to 1996
CRIA - All certifications and their dates
Brazil
ABPD - All certifications and their dates
CDs - Shipment printed on codes from 2003 to now
Data providers: Special thanks to AutomaticBR who provided almost all the data about this country.
Mexico
Amprofon - Official weekly charts provider & certifications organization
Data providers: Special thanks to Hafo.
Argentina
CAPIF - Official weekly charts provider & certifications organization
South Korea
MIAK - Official weekly charts provider & certifications organization
Data providers: Special thanks to Fan Of Music!
Japan
Oricon - Official weekly charts provider including sales data
Data providers: Special thanks Mario who provided all the data about this country.
Australia
ARIA - Official weekly charts provider & certifications organization
Pandora - Full top 100 charts
New-Zealand
RIANZ - Official weekly charts provider & certifications organization