‘Michael’ is Number One Worldwide!
December 22, 2010 at
10:29 am
*Mr. Michael Joe Jackson may gone to the after life, but that doesn’t mean he’s been forgotten by the living. The bottom line is that there are a lot of folks who still want to buy his music.
The numbers are in and “Michael,” his posthumous album, debuted globally at #1 in its first week of sales —
with over 3 million albums sold.
According to Sony, the album has already gone Platinum in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Canada, Korea and the Middle East.
On the other hand, the album’s success is somewhat tempered, because in the US, it placed third in sales behind Taylor Swift and Susan Boyle.
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=73059
Posthumous Jackson album sells 3M units worldwide
(AP) – 4 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Jackson is the King of Pop, but he's being challenged by the current queens of music.
Taylor Swift's album "Speak Now" is No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, followed by Susan Boyle's "The Gift." Their albums got in the way of Jackson's first posthumous album, "Michael," hitting the top spot. According to Nielsen SoundScan, "Speak Now" sold 259,000 units and "The Gift" 254,000 units. Jackson's album debuted at No. 3 with 228,000 copies sold.
Though he's not No. 1, Jackson's album sold more than 3 million units worldwide. "Michael" debuted at No. 1 in Germany, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands. It also made its way to the Top 5 in the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Belgium and Denmark.
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