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How ‘Leaving Neverland’ Has – and Hasn’t – Changed Michael Jackson’s Legacy

Michael Jackson Album 2019 Sales, Streams, Up Significantly Despite Documentary “Scandal” and Calls for Bans on His Music

Remember when the documentary “Leaving Neverland” looked like it was going to hurt Michael Jackson’s legacy?

Remember all the calls for banning Jackson’s music from radio, from the culture?

Well, it didn’t work out that way.

According to numbers from BuzzAngle, Michael’s music has soared in 2019. (I must say, I was surprised.)

To date, Jackson’s numbers for Album Sales including streaming, downloads, and CD purchases are up 15.7% over 2018. His total at this point last year was 425,330. This year it’s 498,806.

Jackson’s CD sales are down slightly, but that’s true for just about every recording artist. His streaming numbers are a different story, however. His streaming (audio, video, etc) is up 39.7% over last year. (We’re using the same 30 week period each year.)

Jackson’s total streaming so far in 2019 is 1,127,200,908. Yes, over 1 billion. Jackson has been dead since June 2009 and even then hadn’t issued a record of new material since 2001.


Roughly a third of Jackson’s album sales this year come from “Thriller” and its singles, and individual tracks.

This information should come as good news to the Jackson estate. They’ve still got a Broadway musical cooking for next year. It was briefly derailed, but with Jackson’s music’s popularity on the rise, they should feel emboldened to move ahead.

Maybe all publicity really is good publicity!

https://www.showbiz411.com/2019/07/...I9boVAgJNgNTbHqdQCLv7A-amjJfJ-oUoAE5JZ8J5hgug
 
SilkySnare;4264700 said:
Playing MJ's music at weddings;

https://www.inquirer.com/news/michael-jackson-r-kelly-played-at-wedding-reception-dj-documentary-leaving-neverland-surviving-me-too-20190729.html

Not a huge deal, but sad to hear nontheless..
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10%: It doesn't seem to be a major problem. The DJ's say they don't want to 'trigger' any wedding attendees who may have been abused in the past.

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R. Kelly is a one hundred percent no-go at all gigs now,” said Chris Keenan, a Fort Washington-based DJ and owner of Futurescapes Entertainment. He and his colleagues ask clients about Jackson, and Keenan estimated about 10 percent don’t want him because of the controversy. In interviews, more than half a dozen DJs — black, white, male, female — said some version of the same.

Of the top 200 most requested songs from weddings and parties this year, six were by Jackson and two by the Jackson 5, according to an annual list published in June by DJ Intelligence, a national planning and management system for DJs. The highest-rated is “Billie Jean,” which comes in at No. 48 on the chart. R. Kelly’s “Ignition” is No. 56. It’s worth noting the chart is based on a year’s worth of data back to June 2018 — both documentaries were initially released in January 2019.

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The reaction to Jackson was the same as it’s always been: People dance. Spinelli said he still plays MJ at every wedding and hasn’t had any requests from clients to leave him off the playlist.

Fishtown-based DJ Jane Elizabeth, owner of Stylus DJ Entertainment, said she’ll throw in a “P.Y.T.” or a “Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough” if someone requests it. She said that before the documentaries this year, the only song she routinely had clients nix because it’s controversial was “Blurred Lines,” the 2013 Robin Thicke hit that was criticized as promoting dangerous ideas about sexual consent.

Owner of Philly Star Events and DJ Joe Broscoe said a handful of clients had asked him to leave out Jackson, but he probably would, anyway. Luckily, “nowadays you have a plethora of music to pull from,” he said. Today, Broscoe’s go-to artists to pack the dance floor are Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake. (Both pop stars have channeled Jackson — there was even a very-untrue internet rumor started by a fake news website claiming that MJ fathered Bruno Mars.)
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Michael Jackson is simply too big to cancel. The media needs to realize this. You can't erase history and you can't stop people from wanting to re-live their childhood. MJ is embedded in the very foundation of our culture. There's no going back regardless of how much the media wants to.
 
That "handful of people" were never fans of Jackson and looking to get attention. What do they do when they go into stores, tv commercial, radio stations, etc? MJ is played and going to be played. Deal with it.
 
Elton-Cetera;4294548 said:
Michael Jackson Items Removed From Indianapolis Children’s Museum After ‘Leaving Neverland’

“When you learn new stories or you look at something historical in a different way, then sometimes we re-evaluate whether that’s appropriate to be (on display)”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...is-childrens-museum-leaving-neverland-809212/
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More interesting would be where the items are 15 months later, as the article is from 19th march 2019.
 
Lightbringer;4294690 said:
More interesting would be where the items are 15 months later, as the article is from 19th march 2019.
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Exactly. What’s important is NOW—2020 and beyond.
 
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