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moni

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Artists with the most #1 albums on the Billboard 200:

The Beatles (19)
JAY-Z (14)
Drake (13)
Taylor Swift (12)
Barbra Streisand (11)
Bruce Springsteen (11)
Elvis Presley (10)
Eminem (10)
Kanye West (10)

Isn't it interesting that Michael Jackson's name is forgotten at this time?

Source:Music Hype - Facebook
 
Where are Michael Jackson, Damon Albarn and Kurt Cobain? Best singers of all time :mad:
 
moni said:
Isn't it interesting that Michael Jackson's name is forgotten at this time?
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How is he forgotten here? These acts released more albums than Mike did in his solo career. Off The Wall never reached #1 on the Billboard 200 and none of the 4 Motown solo albums did either. No album by the J5/Jacksons went #1 on that chart. Janet has 3 #1 albums on it and Mike has 5.
 
DuranDuran said:
How is he forgotten here? These acts released more albums than Mike did in his solo career. Off The Wall never reached #1 on the Billboard 200 and none of the 4 Motown solo albums did either. No album by the J5/Jacksons went #1 on that chart. Janet has 3 #1 albums on it and Mike has 5.
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Yeah, this is the Billboard 200. Like MJ could never have the most number 1 albums because he barely has any albums. Lol
 
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
Yeah, this is the Billboard 200. Like MJ could never have the most number 1 albums because he barely has any albums. Lol
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Maybe the OP doesn't know what Billboard is and thinks this is a Rolling Stone style list about "best albums" or something. The Billboard 200 is strictly about sales of records/tapes/CDs, not a review of the artists or their music. Although today, I think its for streaming/downloads too. There is a separate chart now for sales of actual physical product.
 
Michael only released 10 albums in his career and only 6 as an adult. Considering that his solo career never got much attention until Off The Wall, it is impressive that 5 out of his 6 adult solo albums went to number 1.
 
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
Off The Wall definitely deserved Number 1.
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I'm not sure what deserved got to do with it. Other records sold more than Off The Wall did for any given week. That's all. It also wasn't that common for R&B albums during the 1970s & the decades before to reach #1 on the mainstream Billboard 200 album chart anyway. Some hit the Top 10 and that's it. There is a reason that artists like Michael Jackson did not only want to be considered a R&B (code for "Black") artist. R&B artists generally did not get the same promotional budget or media attention as the average rock band/singer did.
 
DuranDuran said:
I'm not sure what deserved got to do with it. Other records sold more than Off The Wall did for any given week. That's all. It also wasn't that common for R&B albums during the 1970s & the decades before to reach #1 on the mainstream Billboard 200 album chart anyway. Some hit the Top 10 and that's it. There is a reason that artists like Michael Jackson did not only want to be considered a R&B (code for "Black") artist. R&B artists generally did not get the same promotional budget or media attention as the average rock band/singer did.
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Well it's my opinion. It's an excellent record, subjectively, perhaps even objectively. It is unfair if racial stigma played a role in it underachieving.

At the same measure, there were many excellent records coming around at that time so it was steep competition.
 
I’ve wondered how big off the wall’s weekly sales numbers were. It sold quite a lot in total so it must have been significant
 
filmandmusic said:
I’ve wondered how big off the wall’s weekly sales numbers were. It sold quite a lot in total so it must have been significant
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You can't really go by whatever the number is today. That's from over 40 years of sales, it's not what it sold when originally released. To find that out, you probably would have to look at old Billboard magazines from the time period, and that is only US sales. Billboard had symbols that told what the sales were, but only for gold, platinum, & multi-platinum. It wouldn't give numbers for like 300,000 or 2,050,365 copies sold. That is, if the record company even reported the sales of a particular record to the RIAA, which is voluntary.
 
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
So you don't know basically.
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They probably didn't know back then either, it was based on estimates & guesses or in some cases shipments of records/tapes to stores. Billboard & Cashbox didn't call every single place that sold records in the USA every week and ask them how much each record sold or call every radio station, that's impossible to do, and there's thousands of records out at any one time. That's why when Soundscan started in the early 1990s, the charts totally changed. Although not every store had the Soundscan equipment, especially mom & pop stores.

Record clubs were not counted as official sales and some stores that sold used records & tapes would not accept record club product. Artists did not like this as they couldn't get royalties on it. Especially since some poeple only ordered the 12 albums for a penny from the ads and didn't honor the agreement to order a certain amount of albums at their regular price which was usually more than what the same album cost in a store and there was the shipping cost on top of that.
 
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