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beltrano said:
Spotify J5 top-10 songs :
july 27

i want you back : 783,161,081
abc : 359,049,690
santa claus is coming to town:244,734,931
i saw mommy kissing santa claus :156,093,743
i'll be there :128,128,179
who's loving you :108,014,871
never can say goodbye :39,135,428
the love you save :32,975,210
Dancing machine :29,697,930
frosty the snowman :19,409,527
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beltrano said:
Spotify J5 top-10 songs :
july 27

i want you back : 783,161,081
abc : 359,049,690
santa claus is coming to town:244,734,931
i saw mommy kissing santa claus :156,093,743
i'll be there :128,128,179
who's loving you :108,014,871
never can say goodbye :39,135,428
the love you save :32,975,210
Dancing machine :29,697,930
frosty the snowman :19,409,527
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I’m perplexed by Frosty. With so many great hits, it’s odd to see that one in the top ten.
 
beltrano said:
Spotify-the jacksons top-10 songs
july 26

blame it on the boogie :268,182,781
Can you feel it-7"version :75,589,143
shake your body-7"version :69,152,711
this place hotel :37,099,038
Can you feel it :28,669,366
torture :26,141,503
shake your body :17,908,148
enjoy yourself :16,128,207
show you the way to go :8,712,426
state of shock : 5,484,747
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I wish the edits would be combined with the main version.

Like so:

Blame It on the Boogie: 268,182,781
Can You Feel It? [incl. 7" version]: 104,258,509
Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) [incl. 7" version]: 87,060,859
Heartbreak Hotel (This Place Hotel): 37,099,038
Can You Feel It?: 28,669,366
Torture: 26,141,503
Enjoy Yourself: 16,128,207
Show You the Way to Go: 8,712,426
State of Shock: 5,484,747

With that change, there is room for two more songs in the top ten!
 
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Spotify-july 23:
albums

thriller : 66,771,208/3,762,772,436
bad : 34,187,364/2,275,437,292
off the wall : 19,323,196/1,099,939,966
dangerous : 14,779,024/948,073,611
history : 11,985,284/725,749,388
invincible : 7,839,279/300,594,182

Spotify july 31 all crédits : 12,244,774,899
 
Spotify top-10 songs january to july

1 billie jean : 174,869,147
2 beat it : 120,365,376
3 smooth criminal : 74,987,786
4 Chicago : 74,422,031
5 rock with you : 58,180,481
6 thriller : 47,864,747
7 the way you make me feel :42,851,242
8 don't stop t'ill you get enough :41,530,705
9 they don't care about us :38,139,853
10 man in the mirror : 34,433,462
 
Spotify top-10 albums january to july

1 thriller : 442,371,334
2 bad : 240,298,139
3 off the wall : 130,558,641
4 dangerous : 101,995,014
5 history : 84,475,412
6 invincible : 52,246,284
 
Spotify top-100 songs
july 31

1 billie jean : 1,452,756,897
2 beat it : 930,628,050
3 smooth criminal : 590,635,189
4 thriller : 501,715,798
5 don't stop t'ill you get enough :425,065,755
6 man in the mirror :410,112,173
7 rock with you : 396,582,990
8 the way you make me feel :386,642,868
9 pretty young thing : 345,256,251
10 love never felt so good :300,189,839
11 BAD: 293,222,580
12 they don't care about us :288,624,169
13 remember the time :252,443,581
14 black or white-single version :211,628,612
15 black or white :198,467,300
16 dirty Diana :196,768,559
17 heal the world :181,452,865
18 Chicago :165,591,814
19 wanna be startin' somethin':163,913,550
20 human nature :160,112,496
21 love never felt so good :149,921,881
22 i just can't stop loving you :148,167,026
23 you are not alone :115,957,729
24 earth song : 111,626,052
25 hold my hand :105,464,228
26 you rock my world :105,000,225
27 thriller- single version :104,831,337
28 the girl is mine :102,257,728
29 leave me alone :96,755,067
30 off the wall :81,787,310
 
31 you rock my world-radio edit :80,309,647
32 scream :74,589,057
33 liberian girl :71,514,236
34 ben :70,823,397
35 shake your body :69,248,699
36 blood on the dance floor :59,027,011
37 baby be mine :55,799,344
38 rockin robin :55,731,152
39 jam :52,540,780
40 heaven can wait :51,827,323
41 the way you make me feel-single version :50,511,869
42 the lady in my life :50,333,322
43 dangerous :49,335,694
44 working day and night :48,704,401
45 give in to me :48,418,021
46 she's out of my life :48,372,244
47 a place with no name :46,747,090
48 who is it :43,526,459
49 stranger in Moscow :43,469,655
50 butterflies :43,458,038
51 don't stop t'ill you get enough-2003 edit :43,360,491
52 another part of me :42,679,360
53 i can't help it :40,980,749
54 in the closet :40,340,514
55 will you be there-single version :34,024,395
56 slave to the rhythm :33,411,896
57 will you be there :31,336,786
58 got to be there :30,452,209
59 Say Say Say :29,304,349
60 this is it :28,765,009
 
61 ghosts :28,466,983
62 ain't no sunshine :26,954,144
63 you are not alone-single version :25,112,756
64 speed demon :25,021,800
65 rock with you-single version :24,985,433
66 i wanna be where you are:24,734,529
67 come together :22,314,986
68 loving you :21,945,292
69 earth song-radio edit :21,734,549
70 xscape :20,992,394
71 one day in your life :19,978,782
72 you rock my world :19,891,385
73 Hollywood tonight :18,718,574
74 love never felt so good-original version :18,337,893
75 get on the floor :18,310,400
76 thriller-remix :17,868,597
77 unbreakable :17,781,559
78 gone too soon :15,995,666
79 break of dawn :15,463,959
80 love never felt so good-remix :15,153,008
81 mj/mark ronson diamonds are invincible :15,078,206
82 girlfriend :14,861,862
83 blue gangsta :14,200,599
84 human nature 7": 14,081,769
85 just good friends :13,918,434
86 it's the falling in love :12,749,938
87 wanna be startin'somethin'-single version :12,440,353
88 burn this disco out :11,924,227
89 why you wanna trip on me :11,456,158
90 i want you back :10,821,936
91 i like the way you love me :10,715,381
92 do you know where your children are:10,628,958
93 smooth criminal-immortal version :10,601,713
94 whatever happens :10,231,566
95 speechless :9,770,225
96 a place with no name-original version :9,645,658
97 smile : 9,560,531
98 blood on the dance floor x dangerous :9,152,591
99 loving you-original version :8,682,595
100 behind the mask :8,541,232
 
Spotify top-10 songs july 2023

1 billie jean : 26,565,261
2 beat it :18,037,127
3 smooth criminal : 11,639,128
4 Chicago : 8,931,405
5 rock with you : 8,617,720
6 thriller : 7,036,878
7 don't stop t'ill you get enough :6,251,191
8 the way you make me feel :6,015,351
9 they don't care about us :5,231,034
10 man in the mirror :4,591,812
 
Spotify albums july 31 :

got to be there : 1,271,997/150,677,120
ben: 1,311,024/88,814,246
music and me : 190,107/15,593,104
forever Michael : 579,338/32,609,781
blood on the dance floor history in the mix :58,944,027/114,188,509
Michael : 1,427,051/158,045,702
xscape : 15,738,603/835,210,739
 
PS :blood on the dance floor history in the mix :58,944 in july.
 
youtube july 2023

top-30:
1 billie jean 22,000,000
2 smooth criminal 11,400,000
3 beat it 10,600,000
4 they don't care about us 6,900,000
5 thriller 5,500,000
6 rock with you 4,200,000
7 earth song 3,700,000
8 remember the time 3,500,000
9 don't stop t'ill you get enough 3,400,000
10 bad 2,800,000
11 black or white 2,700,000
12 you are not alone 2,700,000
13 thriller 2,500,000
14 the way you make me feel 2,400,000
15 heal the world 2,000,000
16 dirty Diana 2,000,000
17 you rock my world 1,700,000
18 will you be there 1,700,000
19 love never felt so good 1,600,000
20 give in to me 1,400,000
21 who is it 1,400,000
22 you rock my world 1,000,000
23 man in the mirror 940,000
24 scream 860,000
25 bad 810,000
26 in the closet 770,000
27 speed demon 620,000
28 stranger in Moscow 580,000
29 ghosts 570,000
30 leave me alone 570,000
 
JAM - US CHART HISTORY

I was curious how this great song performed on the various Billboard charts. For me it is very strange why it was not a hit in the US.
I collected all the available Billboard chart history data and it seems the song was popular in the clubs but not in the radios and the overall sales were pure as well. But I think JAM fits very well for the US audiance and the short is also very good and was on a heavy rotation on the music channels.

Billboard top 100: 64, 35, 31, 27, 26, 26, 26, 28, 29, 39, 59, 73, 87, 96
Billboard top 100 R&B singles: 50, 40, 27, 20, 14, 7, 5, 3, 8, 25, 44, 80
Top 40 radio monitor: 43, 23, 21, 22, 25, 32, 37, 47, 60, 68, 75
R&B radio monitor: 31, 17, 14, 14, 14, 15, 15, 22, 26, 29, 41, 47, 63
Hot dance music club play: 35, 21, 14, 9, 5, 4, 4, 11, 15, 21, 40
Hot dance music maxi single sales: 8, 8, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 8, 20, 49
R&B single sales: 32, 32, 32, 32, 23, 19, 18, 32, 48, 60, 73
Top single sales: 54, 39, 34, 33, 29, 19, 21, 28

If anybody has the complete chart run of the Billboard top 100 R&B singles please add.

Sources: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard-Magazine.htm, https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_(Michael_Jackson_song)
 
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Dani said:
JAM - US CHART HISTORY

I was curious how this great song performed on the various Billboard charts. For me it is very strange why it was not a hit in the US.
I collected all the available Billboard chart history data and it seems the song was popular in the clubs but not in the radios and the overall sales were pure as well. But I think JAM fits very well for the US audiance and the short is also very good and was on a heavy rotation on the music channels.

Billboard top 100: 64, 35, 31, 27, 26, 26, 26, 28, 29, 39, 59, 73, 87, 96
Billboard top 100 R&B singles: 50, 40, 27, 20, 14, 7 (the following weeks are not available, wikipedia says the peak postition was nr 3)
Top 40 radio monitor: 43, 23, 21, 22, 25, 32, 37, 47, 60, 68, 75
R&B radio monitor: 31, 17, 14, 14, 14, 15, 15, 22, 26, 29, 41, 47, 63
Hot dance music club play: 35, 21, 14, 9, 5, 4, 4, 11, 15, 21, 40
Hot dance music maxi single sales: 8, 8, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 8, 20, 49
R&B single sales: 32, 32, 32, 32, 23, 19, 18, 32, 48, 60, 73
Top single sales: 54, 39, 34, 33, 29, 19, 21, 28

If anybody has the complete chart run of the Billboard top 100 R&B singles please add.

Sources: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard-Magazine.htm, https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_(Michael_Jackson_song)
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Really thought Jam would do better. Not only is it a banging track, the music video featured Michael Jordan, who was obviously a big sports star back then.
 
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The Jam promo 12” issues were created for very specific “mini-markets” in the USA. Midwest, Atlanta, with or with out rap, etc etc hence the popularity of the dance mixes as there were so many different ones to choose from
 
It would be useful to see how songs with a similar sound performed in the early 90s. It is possible that it simply wasn't the sound that was liked back then. In the closet didn't perform very well either despite reaching nr 6. For a 3rd single a nr 6 peak is too low.
What I find most puzzling is why give into me wasn't released as a single (US). I would have it as 2nd or 3rd single release from Dangerous, it would have been huge I reckon.
 
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