filmandmusic
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I was on Spotify listening to some MJ tracks when I stumbled upon the compilation album "scream". Immediately I saw "heartbreak hotel" having 28+ million spins
I checked to see how many listeners the other "Triumph" songs got and it pretty much negligible. 5 of its 9 songs have under 1 millions spins. Not a single track on a Michael Jackson released album has less spins (they mostly are at minimum about 4 million). In fact "heartbreak hotel" was the most popular song on "Triumph" with its 28 million spins, surpassing can you feel it easily (18 million).
I attribute this to the song finally being released as a Michael Jackson track on a Michael Jackson album and not on the (unjustly) forgotten The Jacksons's album "Triumph".
Same story for "torture" which by now has 20 million listens by far surpassing the other MJ (on vocals) tracks on Victory (be not always a poor 300 000 spins, state of shock 4 million).
Both those tracks were hits back in the day but not on a global scale and they didn't become trademark MJ tunes so to see them lock up 20+ million total spins 40 odd years after they were first released is quite interesting.
Simply put, it is possible to breath life into old tracks. If we're not gonna get new tracks then for the next compilation album please continue to put other forgotten songs into the limelight.
I checked to see how many listeners the other "Triumph" songs got and it pretty much negligible. 5 of its 9 songs have under 1 millions spins. Not a single track on a Michael Jackson released album has less spins (they mostly are at minimum about 4 million). In fact "heartbreak hotel" was the most popular song on "Triumph" with its 28 million spins, surpassing can you feel it easily (18 million).
I attribute this to the song finally being released as a Michael Jackson track on a Michael Jackson album and not on the (unjustly) forgotten The Jacksons's album "Triumph".
Same story for "torture" which by now has 20 million listens by far surpassing the other MJ (on vocals) tracks on Victory (be not always a poor 300 000 spins, state of shock 4 million).
Both those tracks were hits back in the day but not on a global scale and they didn't become trademark MJ tunes so to see them lock up 20+ million total spins 40 odd years after they were first released is quite interesting.
Simply put, it is possible to breath life into old tracks. If we're not gonna get new tracks then for the next compilation album please continue to put other forgotten songs into the limelight.