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Michael Jackson is far and away the leader, especially if we focus among English-speaking stars.
His figure should be seen with an asterisk as his top selling album since 2003 has been an unofficial release.
The immense love for live recordings from Brazilians, the perception of Michael Jackson as a top performer with no live album yet, and the high price of foreign records, brought them to pick The Best of Michael Jackson Live in priority after the artist passing.
It’s still a huge failure for Sony to let an unofficial release take off 620,000 sales from them. This is also a good showing that physical records piracy was still a big problem in Brazil until streaming arrived.
Without these sales the singer would continue to claim the title of top selling foreigner though. This is incredible since he released no new album since 2003 with the exception of posthumous albums.
Thriller is unreal at 349,000 units. Among English language studio sets, only Adele‘s 21 sold more since 2003. The 1982 record outsells totals of artists like Maroon 5 or Taylor Swift.
Number Ones stands at 316,710 units, the pair of History videos add for 407,000, while the two Dangerous related videos total 240,000 sales.
Off The Wall, Bad and Dangerous stand around 100,000 tracked units each, same as King Of Pop at 113,000.
https://chartmasters.org/2021/02/spotlight-on-162-million-pure-album-sales-in-brazil/
His figure should be seen with an asterisk as his top selling album since 2003 has been an unofficial release.
The immense love for live recordings from Brazilians, the perception of Michael Jackson as a top performer with no live album yet, and the high price of foreign records, brought them to pick The Best of Michael Jackson Live in priority after the artist passing.
It’s still a huge failure for Sony to let an unofficial release take off 620,000 sales from them. This is also a good showing that physical records piracy was still a big problem in Brazil until streaming arrived.
Without these sales the singer would continue to claim the title of top selling foreigner though. This is incredible since he released no new album since 2003 with the exception of posthumous albums.
Thriller is unreal at 349,000 units. Among English language studio sets, only Adele‘s 21 sold more since 2003. The 1982 record outsells totals of artists like Maroon 5 or Taylor Swift.
Number Ones stands at 316,710 units, the pair of History videos add for 407,000, while the two Dangerous related videos total 240,000 sales.
Off The Wall, Bad and Dangerous stand around 100,000 tracked units each, same as King Of Pop at 113,000.
https://chartmasters.org/2021/02/spotlight-on-162-million-pure-album-sales-in-brazil/