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Michael Jackson Worldwide Chart Performance Thread

SWEDEN CHART WEEK 30

Dvd Chart

1 - Live In Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour
2 - Number Ones
3 - HIStory On Film Video Greatest Hits (sony)
5 - History on film 2
6 - Dangerous the short films
8 - The One
12 - HIStory On Film Video Greatest Hits (epic)

Digital Singels

3 - Billie Jean
6 - Beat It
18 - SMooth Criminal
21 - Thriller
24 - Black Or White
25 - They Dont Care About Us
34 - Man In The Mirror
36 - Bad
39 - Dirty Diana
40 - Heal The World
59 - Will You Be There
 
UK Album Chart

#1 The Essential Michael Jackson
#6 Thriller
#7 The Motown Years (Michael Jackson & Jackson 5)
#12 Off The Wall
#14 The Collection
#22 Number Ones
#27 King Of Pop
#39 The Very Best Of (Michael Jackson & Jackson 5)
#40 HIStory
#50 Thriller 25

UK Singles Chart

#16 Man In The Mirror
#37 Billie Jean
#44 Smooth Criminal
#47 Thriller
#53 Beat It
#60 Dirty Diana
#66 They Don't Care About Us
#75 Black Or White
#82 You Are Not Alone
#86 Bad
#88 The Way You Make Me Feel
#91 ABC (Jackson 5)
 
Michael continues to kick a*s in the book charts too. Tarroberrelli's biography is number 1 in the UK non-fiction paperback charts and there are two books in the non-fiction hardback charts - including a book I worked on, Michael Jackson - Life of a Legend. I designed the website for it: http://www.mjlifeofalegend.com/
 
ITALY

Albums

1 - King Of Pop
2 - Thriller
3 - BAD
5 - The Essential Michael Jackson (rises 1 place)
6 - Dangerous (falls 2 places)
8 - The Collection (rises 9 places)
12 - Off The Wall (falls 3 places)
17 - HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book 1 (falls 1 place)
19 - Invincible (falls 1 place)
21 - Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5: 50 The Motown Years (rises 28 places)
23 - Blood On The Dancefloor - HIStory In The Mix (falls 2 places)
55 - Greatest Hits: HIStory Vol 1

Singles

5 - Thriller
10 - Billie Jean

Music DVD

1 - Live In Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour
2 - Number Ones
3 - Video Greatest Hits: HIStory
 
New Zealand Album Chart:

#1 The Essential Michael Jackson
#4 Number Ones
#9 King Of Pop
#14 The Motown Years (Michael Jackson & Jackson Five)
#16 HIStory
#27 Thriller 25
#40 The Very Best Of (The Jacksons)

New Zealand Singles Chart:

#18 Man In The Mirror
#31 You Are Not Alone
#35 The Way You Make Me Feel
 
Michael Jackson has the biggest selling album in America yet again this week!

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

161,000 sales against an album that was released 6 years ago is amazing!!

MJ albums on the top 200 equate to approx another 500,000 total sales again this week - and that's just in the USA!!

Go MJ. Your Legacy lives on and gets stronger day by day!
 
Michael still has 3/5 best selling albums in the US according to official numbers released today by Nielsen Soundscan. Jackson has the #1, #4, and #5 (Number Ones, Thriller, Essential) and has sold another 472,000 records this week.

**I have no figure on digital downloads and was wondering if somebody knows where I can access this information.
 
AUSTRALIA ALBUM CHARTS:


1 (1) Essential Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson (EPI/SME)

2 (3) My Dream, Mio Visione - Mark Vincent (SME)

3 (2) Number 1's - Michael Jackson (SME)

4 (7) The E.N.D - The Black Eyed Peas (INR/UMA)

5 (10) Funhouse - P!nk (LAF/SME)

6 (6) King Of Pop - Michael Jackson (SME)

7 (8) Hannah Montana: The Movie - Miley Cyrus (WALT/UMA)

8 (4) Thriller - Michael Jackson (EPI/SME)

9 (9) Cradlesong - Rob Thomas (ATL/WAR)

10 (5) As Day Follows Night - Sarah Blasko (DEW/UMA)
 
Year To Date charts (UK and US) - Top 20 only

At the moment though, Number Ones is the 4th best selling album in the US (Top 20 below) and is in the Top 10 of the global album chart (THriller is too!). Unfortunately I don't have are global chart that I can share here, but I have included the UK chart for anybody who is interested. I'm sure the next few weeks will see albums move up the year to date charts in all territories. Hopefully Sony will have a plan to boost sales again toward the end of the year.


US Year To Date:

I think MJ should move into 2nd place with this weeks sales added. Thriller could go Top 10 in a few weeks!

Rank - Sales - TITLE - Artist
01 - 1,461,971 - FEARLESS - Taylor Swift
02 - 1,297,192 - HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE - Soundtrack
03 - 1,295,295 - RELAPSE - Eminem
04 - 1,258,000 - NUMBER ONES - Michael Jackson
05 - 1,103,227 - THE FAME - Lady GaGa
06 - 1,027,501 - TWILIGHT - Soundtrack
07 - 1,001,078 - DARK HORSE - Nickelback
08 - 960,077 - NO LINE ON THE HORIZON - U2
09 - 886,747 - UNSTOPPABLE - Rascal Flatts
10 - 865,465 - I AM…SASHA FIERCE - Beyonce
11 - 788,000 - THRILLER - Michael Jackson
12 - 778,983 - THE E.N.D. (THE ENERGY NEVER DIES) - Black Eyed Peas
13 - 777,513 - BIG WHISKEY AND THE GROOGRUX KING - Dave Matthews Band
14 - 703,851 - 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN - Green Day
15 - 686,551 - ONLY BY THE NIGHT - Kings Of Leon
16 - 654,639 - ALL I EVER WANTED - Kelly Clarkson
17 - 650,605 - NOW 30 - Various
18 - 645,000 - THE ESSENTIAL - Michael Jackson
19 - 644,941 - INTUITION - Jamie Foxx
20 - 633,665 - THE FRAY - The Fray

UK Year To Date:

I think MJ should move into 6th place in a couple of weeks time.

1 Only by the Night - Kings of Leon 744,387
2 The Fame - Lady Gaga 641,342
3 It's not Me, It's You - Lily Allen 530,289
4 Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy 437,564
5 The Circus - Take That 415,461
6 I am Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé 407,001
7 The Essential - Michael Jackson 346,219
8 Songs for You, Truths for Me - James Morrison 335,201
9 Relapse - Eminem 323,599
10 No Line on the Horizon - U2 322,019
11 Rockferry - Duffy 312,666
12 Day & Age - The Killers 303,154
13 Funhouse - Pink 299,815
14 The Seldom seen Kid - Elbow 298,417
15 The Script - The Script 275,981
16 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 273,649
17 West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian 261,990
18 Freedom - Akon 248,894
19 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day 244,686
20 Sunny Side Up - Paulo Nutini 243,239


Since Michael Jackson's death his greatest hits compilations have done very well on the global chart but there is one that surprised me. Despite the tracklisting being chosen by each country individually, the King of Pop album seems (in most places) to be selling worse than Number Ones and Essential. Does this seem strange to you?
Also, I really think it's a shame that because we have several pointless compilations rather than just one, Michael Jackson probably won't have the biggest selling album worldwide this year. Instead he'll have 2 or 3 albums selling quite well. I'd rather all sales were combined into a single album like would be the case if Sony had not released any more albums after 'Number Ones'. The other compilations didn't serve any purpose IMO.
 
Billboard Catalog Albums Chart

Blood On The Dance Floor entered at #10

Number Ones still #1

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts#/charts/catalog-albums

Top ten is almost all Michael

Billboard.com News: Demi Lovato Debuts At No. 1 On Billboard 200, But Michael Jackson Still Reigns

Demi Lovato rules the Billboard 200 chart this week, as the Disney singer/actress' sophomore album "Here We Go Again" (Hollywood Records) debuts at No. 1 with 108,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Her first set, "Don't Forget," bowed at No. 2 less than a year ago with 89,000.

Lovato's debut marks the fourth No. 1 album of the year for Disney Music Group - a record for the company. Previous chart-toppers in 2009 were Rascal Flatts' "Unstoppable,"the "Hannah Montana: The Movie" soundtrack and Jonas Brothers' "Lines, Vines and Trying Times." Disney had three albums debut at No. 1 in both 2007 and 2006.

But while Lovato ruled the Billboard 200, Michael Jackson once again had the best-selling album. The King of Pop's 2003 hits set "Number Ones" tops the all-encompassing Top Comprehensive Albums chart by shifting 154,000 copies, down 21% from the week prior. (Top Comprehensive Albums ranks the top selling albums in the country, regardless of age; whereas the Billboard 200 houses only new and current titles -- generally those less than 18 months old.)

Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, Jordin Sparks' sophomore album "Battlefield" fights its way to a No. 7 debut, selling 48,000 copies. It's the "American Idol" winner's second top 10 set, as her 2007 self-titled debut entered and peaked at No. 10 with 119,000.

Last week's No. 1 album, Daughtry's "Leave This Town," falls to No. 2 with just under 101,000 copies (down 63%). Maxwell's "BLACKsummers'night" slips one spot to No. 3 with 72,000 (down 30%) while the "Now 31" album holds at No. 4 with 58,000 (down 17%). The "Hannah Montana 3" TV soundtrack falls to slots to No. 5 with 54,000 (down 26%) while the Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D." is down one to No. 6 with 52,000 (down 4%).

Rounding out the top 10 is Kings of Leon's "Only By The Night" moving up two positions to No. 8 with 39,000 (up 19%), Taylor Swift's "Fearless" staying course at No. 9 with 37,000 (up less than 2%) and Lady GaGa's "The Fame" climbing one rung to No. 10 with 28,000 (down 9%).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 26) totaled 6.25 million units, down 7.8% compared to the sum last week (6.78 million) and down 20.3% compared to the same sales week of 2008 (7.84 million). Year to date album sales stand at 201.7 million, down 14.1% compared to the same total at this point last year (234.9 million).

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts#/news/demi-lovato-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-1003998139.story
 
Can anybody give us the 'highest selling artist/group' so far in 2009? The USA/UK/Worldwide figures would be interesting!
 
AUSTRIA

Albums

1 - King Of Pop
5 - Thriller 25
14 - The Essential Michael Jackson (falls 6 places)

Singles

17 - Billie Jean
18 - They Don't Care About Us
 
SWITZERLAND

Albums

1 - King Of Pop
3 - The Essential Michael Jackson (falls 1 place)
4 - The Collection (rises 2 places)
5 - Thriller 25

Singles

11 - Billie Jean
15 - Thriller
17 - Beat It
 
NORWAY

Albums

1 - Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5: 50 The Motown Years
4 - The Collection (rises 1 place)
6 - The Essential Michael Jackson
18 - HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book 1 (falls 2 places)

ARGENTINA

Albums

3 - The Very Best of The Jacksons
5 - Number Ones (falls 3 places)
20 - Off The Wall (rises 1 place)
 
CANADA

Albums

2 - Number Ones
5 - Thriller 25
14 - Greatest Hits - HIStory Vol 1
17 - Thriller
20 - The Essential Michael Jackson
31 - Off The Wall
40 - BAD
42 - Dangerous
54 - The Best of the Jackson 5: 20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection
57 - Michael Jackson: 20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection
68 - HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book 1

Singles

43 - Billie Jean
50 - Thriller
 
UNITED STATES

Catalog Album Chart

1 - Number Ones
2 - The Essential Michael Jackson
3 - Thriller
4 - BAD
5 - Off The Wall
6 - Dangerous
7 - The Ultimate Collection Jackson 5
8 - The Best of the Jackson 5: 20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection
10 - Blood On The Dancefloor - HIStory In The Mix
11 - Greatest Hits - HIStory Vol 1
12 - Invincible
17 - The Jacksons Live
24 - HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book 1
 
SPAIN

Albums

1 - The Collection
2 - King Of Pop
7 - Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5: 50 The Motown Years
11 - Thriller 25 (falls 5 places)
18 - HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book 1 (falls 7 places)
32 - The Essential Michael Jackson (falls 9 places)
56 - Greatest Hits - HIStory Vol 1 (rises 31 places)
81 - Number Ones (rises 18 places)
98 - Jackson 5 Ultimate Collection

Singles

6 - Thriller
16 - Billie Jean
28 - Black Or White
42 - BAD
49 - Beat It

Music DVD

3 - Live In Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour
7 - Video Greatest Hits - HIStory
9 - Number Ones
10 - Dangerous: The Short Films
11 - HIStory On Film Vol 2
12 - The One
 
Sony needs to work their magic for the Christmas holiday season. If I was them I would do a special with Wal-Mart and ship millions of MJ albums out in Nov/Dec with a cheap price tag ($10) and keep them in a prominent location for a solid month. (Nov 30th-Dec 31st). This would help boost the MJ sales.

KEY FACT: Right now Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" album is the 4th biggest selling album of 2009 in the United States. As of next week, it will officially move into the 3rd position kicking Eminem's new album into 4th place and be within 100,000 copies of beating Taylor Swift's album which currently has the #1 position. Let's hope MJ can sustain sales for the rest of the summer. We also have to watch for big releases this fall from Madonna (best of album called Celebration) as well as Whitney and other big names releasing this fall. It will be a horse race to the finish line thats for sure!
 
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GLOBAL CHARTS: JACKSON DOMINATES
July 30th 2009

-Headline: TOP SIX(6) BEST SELLING ALBUMS IN THE WORLD THIS WEEK ARE ALL MJ!
-MJ Has 7/10 or 9/20 Best Selling Albums

Here Are The Chart Positions:

#1 Thriller 25= 286,000

#2 Number Ones= 259,000

#3 The Essential= 232,000

#4 King Of Pop= 170,000

#5 Bad=152,000

#6 Dangerous= 138,000

#8 Off The Wall= 122,000

#13 HIStory Past Present & Future= 71,000

#15 Invincible= 69,000

#24 Michael Jackson & Jackson 5 Motown Years= 42,000

#31 Jackson 5 Ultimate Collection= 32,000

TOTAL SALES= 1,599,800

http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm
 
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smooth_criminal05 said:
global charts: Jackson dominates
july 30th 2009

-headline: Top six(6) best selling albums in the world this week are all mj!
-mj has 7/10 or 9/20 best selling albums

here are the chart positions:

#1 thriller 25= 286,000

#2 number ones= 259,000

#3 the essential= 232,000

#4 king of pop= 170,000

#5 bad=152,000

#6 dangerous= 138,000

#8 off the wall= 122,000

#13 history past present & future= 71,000

#15 invincible= 69,000

#24 michael jackson & jackson 5 motown years= 42,000

#31 jackson 5 ultimate collection= 32,000

total sales= 1,725,000

http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm
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correction:

total sales = 1,599,800
 
bobmoo79 said:
US Year To Date:

I think MJ should move into 2nd place with this weeks sales added. Thriller could go Top 10 in a few weeks!

Rank - Sales - TITLE - Artist
01 - 1,461,971 - FEARLESS - Taylor Swift
02 - 1,297,192 - HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE - Soundtrack
03 - 1,295,295 - RELAPSE - Eminem
04 - 1,258,000 - NUMBER ONES - Michael Jackson
05 - 1,103,227 - THE FAME - Lady GaGa
06 - 1,027,501 - TWILIGHT - Soundtrack
07 - 1,001,078 - DARK HORSE - Nickelback
08 - 960,077 - NO LINE ON THE HORIZON - U2
09 - 886,747 - UNSTOPPABLE - Rascal Flatts
10 - 865,465 - I AM…SASHA FIERCE - Beyonce
11 - 788,000 - THRILLER - Michael Jackson
12 - 778,983 - THE E.N.D. (THE ENERGY NEVER DIES) - Black Eyed Peas
13 - 777,513 - BIG WHISKEY AND THE GROOGRUX KING - Dave Matthews Band
14 - 703,851 - 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN - Green Day
15 - 686,551 - ONLY BY THE NIGHT - Kings Of Leon
16 - 654,639 - ALL I EVER WANTED - Kelly Clarkson
17 - 650,605 - NOW 30 - Various
18 - 645,000 - THE ESSENTIAL - Michael Jackson
19 - 644,941 - INTUITION - Jamie Foxx
20 - 633,665 - THE FRAY - The Fray

UK Year To Date:

I think MJ should move into 6th place in a couple of weeks time.

1 Only by the Night - Kings of Leon 744,387
2 The Fame - Lady Gaga 641,342
3 It's not Me, It's You - Lily Allen 530,289
4 Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy 437,564
5 The Circus - Take That 415,461
6 I am Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé 407,001
7 The Essential - Michael Jackson 346,219
8 Songs for You, Truths for Me - James Morrison 335,201
9 Relapse - Eminem 323,599
10 No Line on the Horizon - U2 322,019
11 Rockferry - Duffy 312,666
12 Day & Age - The Killers 303,154
13 Funhouse - Pink 299,815
14 The Seldom seen Kid - Elbow 298,417
15 The Script - The Script 275,981
16 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 273,649
17 West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian 261,990
18 Freedom - Akon 248,894
19 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day 244,686
20 Sunny Side Up - Paulo Nutini 243,239
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smooth_criminal05 said:
KEY FACT: Right now Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" album is the 4th biggest selling album of 2009 in the United States. As of next week, it will officially move into the 3rd position kicking Eminem's new album into 4th place and be within 100,000 copies of beating Taylor Swift's album which currently has the #1 position. Let's hope MJ can sustain sales for the rest of the summer. We also have to watch for big releases this fall from Madonna (best of album called Celebration) as well as Whitney and other big names releasing this fall. It will be a horse race to the finish line thats for sure!
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As per my earlier post (above), Number Ones will move into 2nd position behind Taylor Swift next week because he is likely to outsell Hannah Montana soundtrack by almost 100,000 and is only 39,000 behind her in the chart at the moment. That would put him about 61,000 ahead.
As you said though, 'Ones' is likely to be between 80,000 and 100,000 behind Taylor Swift and then hopefully will become the biggest selling album of the year in the following week. I expect it to be overtaken by the end of year though unless Sony will have a plan in place to boost sales again at Halloween and Xmas.



ALSO


Current global sales estimations up to the end of the last charting week bring total sales of MJ albums since June 25th to 8.8million.

Once this weeks sales are added, I would expect that figure to reach 10.1million (assuming an average 20% drop in sales across the range of albums this week).
Obviously shipments from Sony/Universal to stores would be much higher.

This is based on the global Top40 sales, constructed of sales from the world's biggest music-selling territories since June 25th only, and so is an underestimate for 2009 total sales. As MJ was not in the Top 40 prior to the charting week of his death I have no easy indication of what his worldwide sales were since the beginning of 2009 and haven't yet bothered to compile a list. BUT I think these figures are good indication. We should probably add a few hundred thousand to these figures to get total 2009 sales, but I'll leave it as this for now.


If anybody is interested in my spreadsheet, just PM me and I can send it to you.
 
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Sony confirmed to HitsDailyDouble on July 21st that they had already shipped 15.5 million MJ albums around the globe! And if you include Internet digital downloads, music video and DVD sales Jackson has shifted between 25 and 30 million units since his death!
 
smooth_criminal05 said:
Sony confirmed to HitsDailyDouble on July 21st that they had already shipped 15.5 million MJ albums around the globe! And if you include Internet digital downloads, music video and DVD sales Jackson has shifted between 25 and 30 million units since his death!
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Of course Sony can ship as many 'units' as they like, but it's the retail album sales that should be used for an accurate guage of success IMO.
The fact that Jackson's album sales (inc digital) is approaching 10 million is good enough, I don't think we need to inflate it by talking in shipments. Since Sony's shipment announced on 21st July, they won't have shipped any more and it could take months or years for all those units to sell. Meanwhile, we can still add up the sales weekly as customers purchase them.

Hopefully Sony will re-certify all of MJ's albums soon - some are well over due!
 
SWEDEN CHART WEEK 31

Album Chart

#7 The Essential Michael Jackson
#10 The Collection
#12 King Of Pop - The Swedish Hit Collection´
#47 Michael Jackson & Jackson 5 - The Motown Years (new)

Single Chart

#6 Billie Jean
#15 Beat It 2008
#27 Smooth Criminal
#30 Thriller
#35 Black Or White
#40 Bad
#42 They Dont Care About Us
#52 Man In The Mirror
#54 Heal The World
#55 Dirty Diana

DVD Chart

#1 Live in Bucharest - Dangerous Tour
#2 Number Ones
#3 HIstory - Video Greatest Hits
#6 Dangerous the short films
#8 HIstory on film - volume 1
#9 The One
 
bobmoo79 said:
Of course Sony can ship as many 'units' as they like, but it's the retail album sales that should be used for an accurate guage of success IMO.
The fact that Jackson's album sales (inc digital) is approaching 10 million is good enough, I don't think we need to inflate it by talking in shipments. Since Sony's shipment announced on 21st July, they won't have shipped any more and it could take months or years for all those units to sell. Meanwhile, we can still add up the sales weekly as customers purchase them.

Hopefully Sony will re-certify all of MJ's albums soon - some are well over due!
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I don't think it will take 'years' to sell 5.5 million albums globally. Since Jackson by the end of this week will shift over 10 million albums globally. We still have Halloween which is a strong few weeks for Jackson's catalogue. Christmas is also a big time for CD and DVD sales all around the world. If Sony plays their cards right (and it's in their financial best interest to do so especially with their new movie coming out on Oct 30th) then I suspect Sony could be shipping another 5 million albums by years end on top of the 15.5 million they have already shipped.
 
smooth_criminal05 said:
I don't think it will take 'years' to sell 5.5 million albums globally. Since Jackson by the end of this week will shift over 10 million albums globally. We still have Halloween which is a strong few weeks for Jackson's catalogue. Christmas is also a big time for CD and DVD sales all around the world. If Sony plays their cards right (and it's in their financial best interest to do so especially with their new movie coming out on Oct 30th) then I suspect Sony could be shipping another 5 million albums by years end on top of the 15.5 million they have already shipped.
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Yeah, but my point is that sales and shipments are not equal. Just because X amount of copies have been shipped, you can't treat that as sales until they have actually sold.

The initial shipment for Invincible was far in excess of the number of copies sold. It did take years for all of the intial shipment to sell.

IF Sony have got a game plan, and they should have, then I'm sure they will need to ship more units before the end of the year. I'd be surprised if they didn't come up with a way to sell albums on MJs birthday, during Halloween and at Xmas. But what they will do, I have no idea. There has been such a rush on albums recently, how are they going to convince people who haven't already bought MJ albums to suddenly go and buy them???
 
bobmoo79 said:
Yeah, but my point is that sales and shipments are not equal. Just because X amount of copies have been shipped, you can't treat that as sales until they have actually sold.

The initial shipment for Invincible was far in excess of the number of copies sold. It did take years for all of the intial shipment to sell.

IF Sony have got a game plan, and they should have, then I'm sure they will need to ship more units before the end of the year. I'd be surprised if they didn't come up with a way to sell albums on MJs birthday, during Halloween and at Xmas. But what they will do, I have no idea. There has been such a rush on albums recently, how are they going to convince people who haven't already bought MJ albums to suddenly go and buy them???
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How do they convince people to keep buying Elvis, The Beatles, et al? Easy! Just release another package once the 'heat' dies down. It happens all of the time.

Michael also has many unreleased tracks/DVDs that they can call on to 'stimulate' further demand of his back catalogue. Don't you worry, MJ will keep selling long into the future. There will be peaks and there will be more quiet periods, but MJ will always sell records and DVDs, quite simply because he was the greatest!
 
I believe Sony will issue a new album, either a "live" album or a new material album. They could then promote this into the holiday season. There are many ways Sony could pump up the Jackson catalogue and I'm sure they are thinking of ideas to maintain this trend throughout the year.
 
FRANCE

Albums

121 - Got To Be There (rises 21 places)
162 - Ben

Top Digital Albums

2 - The Essential Michael Jackson (falls 1 place)
9 - Thriller (falls 7 places)
13 - King Of Pop (falls 5 places)
44 - BAD (falls 23 places)

Backcatalog albums

1 - Thriller
2 - HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book 1 (rises 2 places)
3 - The Collection (rises 4 places)
4 - Dangerous (falls 1 place)
5 - BAD
6 - Off The Wall
7 - Number Ones (falls 5 places)
8 - Invincible

Singles

99 - The Girl Is Mine 2008 with Will I Am (falls 4 places)

Top Digital Singles

10 - Billie Jean
13 - Beat It
15 - Thriller
23 - Ben
25 - Smooth Criminal
29 - Heal The World
45 - They Don't Care About Us
46 - Black Or White

Music DVD

1 - Live In Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour
2 - Number Ones
3 - HIStory On Film Vol 1
4 - Dangerous: The Short Films
5 - HIStory On Film Vol 2
6 - Number Ones/Live In Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour
7 - HIStory On Film Vol 2
8 - The One
 
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