No, I'm not saying that. I never said that. I said several times already that not all the people who buy someone's album are their fan. I bought Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster album because it was great. Does that make me fan of hers? No. I just liked that album. I didn't buy ARTPOP album because it was bad. Does that mean that she lost one fan? No. He did lose some of his fans during that period mainly because the media affected their opinions about MJ and because of the skin/race issues I mentioned before as it was also mentioned in that news report that you posted. But he definitely didn't lose 50% of his fan base. I don't understand what's not clear to you. The drastic difference between those numbers are because of the regula record buying public. They were more interested in Thriller because in that period MJ was seen as a national hero and by 1985 all that turned against him.
I'll quote myself:
"He did lose some of the fans in US, that I agree with, mainly because of the things I said before (media persecution because of the purchase of The Beatles catalogue and media speculations and accusations of skin bleaching). For the same reasons he also lost a lot of general record buying public that are not necessary the fans of the artist but they buy what's hot on the charts at the moment, like they did with Thriller."
Do you even read my posts before replying? I'll quote myself again because I already adressed this same statement:
"And all that sh*t started to happen, like you said, in 1985! The reason, not just that he broke every record set by The Beatles (media and critics all time favourite act) and Elvis, he also bought their entire catalogue! Not to mention, MJ was black! In 1985 that was not acceptable for black people in their beliefs. And over night, like MJ said, they called him a woman, gay, that he wants to bleach his skin to look white, that he wants to buy elephant man bones, that he sleeps in hyperbaric chamber...)."
Who said it didn't? That is a well known fact. I just corrected you that it's his "2nd greatest selling album" which is not. Not even close. As I said "it's actually his lowest selling album after Invincible".