Unfortunately, with the exception of Thriller, Michael's other studio albums don't sell or stream enough to consistently make it onto the charts.
Well, Bad seems to do ok. But that's missing the point. It's not about making Michael's albums look better or worse than they are. It's about an accurate representation. If it's all lies, then you might as well stop publishing a chart, because it's all bullshit.
Complete and utter bullshit.
The streams are usually allocated to the studio albums and a greatest hits album.
Huh? Both? As in, double counting? That's even worse.
It's the bouncing between compilations that's baffling. I mean, Essential makes more sense - it's a more comprehensive career spanning set. I mean, the Number Ones streaming in Ireland isn't even the version that is for this region, it's the US version. It's just mad to me that they can go "Hmmm, actually switch the figures back to Number Ones, screw The Essential".
I'm surprised they haven't had the idea of adding all those songs to HiStory, to manipulate that album up to the top.
In fact, why not rotate periodically between all the albums, so everything gets a turn at number one, before being sacrificed for another 6 weeks and then coming back up?
Yes, The Essential is a signifcantly better greatest hits collection. I would much rather see The Essential on the charts than Number Ones.
But it's not like somebody had Number Ones in mind when they wanted to listen to Beat It. It's not like they had either al um in mind. As I said, it's disingenuous to publish an "albums chart" in this way.
You guys are being lied to with the whole concept.
I bet that if they decide to release some special edition version of The Essential in a few years, it will be back on the charts, in place of Number Ones. It doesn't make sense, but sadly, streaming has made music charts very confusing.
If we all ignore this, it will go away. I promise you.
First thing we need to do is stop
@beltrano with his incessant verbal diarrhoea.
