Michael Jackson :: Charts & Sales History

by **Andreita2994** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:45 pm

hello.. please if anybody know the answer feel free to reply,are bad and dangerous considered rnb? because i didn't see them in the top 200 RnB Chart...even an album called michael jackson icon is there with sales of only 305. is this means dangerous and bad are selling less than that...or simply not included in RnB....

by **pierpinto** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:06 pm

Andreita2994 wrote:hello.. please if anybody know the answer feel free to reply,are bad and dangerous considered rnb? because i didn't see them in the top 200 RnB Chart...even an album called michael jackson icon is there with sales of only 305. is this means dangerous and bad are selling less than that...or simply not included in RnB....

The chart you are talking about is the:

"Top Current R & B Chart"

"Bad " & "Dangerous" aren't eligible on that chart, but towards the:

"Top Catalogue R & B Chart"

The "Icon" cd is a new Motown Compilation issued on March 6th in The US.

"Got to Be There" (single version) (3:23)
"I Wanna Be Where You Are" (2:57)
"Rockin' Robin" (2:31)
"People Make the World Go 'Round" (3:16)
"With a Child's Heart" (3:34)
"Happy (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues)" (3:29)
"Ben" (single version) (2:47)
"We're Almost There" (3:47)
"Just a Little Bit of You" (3:08)
"One Day in Your Life" (4:14)
"Music and Me" (2:38)

by **Andreita2994** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:20 am

thank you so much pierpinto, you are always so helpful and kind ...i wish we could be able to see "Top Catalogue R & B Chart" ...you don't how much i want to know dangerous and bad weekly sales..and also history invincible,off the wall and blood on the dance floor

by **pierpinto** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:14 am

SWEDEN

Top 20 Music Videos

Live In Bucharest #13 (+5) : 130 Weeks

by **pierpinto** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:14 pm

IRELAND

Top 10 Music Videos

This Is It #8 (-1) : 102 Weeks

FRANCE

Top 200 Albums (Physical & Digital)

The Essential #144 (+20) : 12 Weeks : (Since 02/2011)

Top 40 Catalogue Albums (Physical)

Number Ones #20 (+11) : 106 Weeks

Thriller #25 (-1) : 192 Weeks

Top 40 Compilations (Physical)

The Essential #28 (+11) : 75 Weeks

Top 40 Music Videos

Live In Bucharest #24 (-2) : 215 Weeks

Number Ones #39 (RE) : 171 Weeks

by **pierpinto** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:22 pm

by **pierpinto** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:19 pm

pierpinto wrote:Makin' of Thriller Video

UK 175,000 (first shipment)

(100,000 sold in 3 days)

http://www.the-michael-jackson-archives.com/wanna4.html

USA 900,000 (November 1991)

JAPAN 70,000 (Billboard June 1984)

http://www.the-michael-jackson-archives.com/wanna6.html

http://www.the-michael-jackson-archives.com/dangerous_main_page.html

UK

350,000 sold by 1992

Source

by **pierpinto** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:32 am

by **pierpinto** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:01 am

AUSTRALIA

Top 50 Catalogue Albums

The Essential #27 (-6) : 124 Weeks

Number Ones #37 (-12) : 49 Weeks

Top 40 Music Videos

Number Ones #25 (=) : 255 Weeks

by **evaorig** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:17 pm

pierpinto I found this for the Thriller soundscan single sale:

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/

Michael Jackson's 1984 hit "Thriller" is in third place. It has sold 2,997,000 copies.

by **pierpinto** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:28 pm

evaorig wrote:pierpinto I found this for the Thriller soundscan single sale:

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/

Michael Jackson's 1984 hit "Thriller" is in third place. It has sold 2,997,000 copies.

Thanks Evaorig, US figures updated.

26k in the last 5 wks, 3 mill. next week.

by **madd77** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:34 pm

pierpinto wrote:THE UNITED STATES
1987 Bad
#1 (6 Wks) - 41 Wks - 116 Wks - 1,608,452 (03/10/2010) - 879,000 - 8,000,000 (09/1994) - 10,650,000

1991 Dangerous
#1 (4 Wks) - 20 Wks - 140 Wks - 6,372,928 [5,786,000 (2006)(Reg. Ed. 1991) + 586,928 (25/07/2010)(Spec. Ed. 2001) ] - 298,000 - 7,000,000 (05/2000) - 8,550,000

thanks so,

if RIAA had to certify these 2 albums again, they should be 11 M and 9 M
??

where do these estimated shippments come from ?

---------

the same goes with History

1995 HIStory : Past, Present & Future Book I° (2CD)
#1 (2 Wks) - 5 Wks - 41 Wks - 2,584,000 (26/07/2009) - 730,000 - 3,500,000 (10/1999) - 4,300,000

I thought that RIAA certified 7 M already for History (being a double disc) ?

by **pierpinto** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:47 pm

madd77 wrote:
pierpinto wrote:THE UNITED STATES
1987 Bad
#1 (6 Wks) - 41 Wks - 116 Wks - 1,608,452 (03/10/2010) - 879,000 - 8,000,000 (09/1994) - 10,650,000

1991 Dangerous
#1 (4 Wks) - 20 Wks - 140 Wks - 6,372,928 [5,786,000 (2006)(Reg. Ed. 1991) + 586,928 (25/07/2010)(Spec. Ed. 2001) ] - 298,000 - 7,000,000 (05/2000) - 8,550,000

if RIAA had to certify these 2 albums again, they should be 11 M and 9 M ??

where do these estimated shippments come from ?

10x and 8x

From here:

http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=63110&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=8900

madd77 wrote:the same goes with History

1995 HIStory : Past, Present & Future Book I° (2CD)
#1 (2 Wks) - 5 Wks - 41 Wks - 2,584,000 (26/07/2009) - 730,000 - 3,500,000 (10/1999) - 4,300,000
I thought that RIAA certified 7 M already for History (being a double disc) ?

From MJDangerous in 2009

I was thinking to Music Club sales at the moment... And they prove that "History" is for sure over 4m in the US.

It was certified as follow :

- 2.5m by August 1995
- 3.0m by January 1996
- 3.5m by October 1999

His soundscan sales :

- 1.9m in 1995
- 2.5m up to date

His BMG sales :

- 0.73m by 2003

AND, something which appears to be very important here :

- By 1996, it was still a Columbia House exclusive (just like all Jackson catalog).

It means that when it was certified for 3m copies shipped, 1.9m were sold on shops (soundscan), surely 300-400k copies unsold on shops, the rest was sold at Columbia House. This also means that the 6xPlatinum award contains 0 sale from BMG, were it sold 730k. Obviously, adding BMG sales + further shop/columbia house sales and shipment, the album is sure to be over 4m.
This agree with this figure reported by Sony Music Japan.

by **pierpinto** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:11 pm

UNITED KINGDOM

Top 200 Music Videos

This Is It #6 (=) : 109 Wks

Moonwalker #32 (=) : 144 Wks

by **madd77** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:47 pm

[quote="pierpinto"][quote="madd77"][quote="pierpinto"][b][size=large][color=BLUE]

OTW : 8M
Thriller : almost 30 M
Bad : 10 m
Dangerous : 8 M
History : 4 M X 2

by **Timmy94** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:58 pm

madd77 wrote:Wich other artist has 5 studio albums over 8 M in the USA ?

Garth Brooks

by **madd77** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:01 pm

Timmy94 wrote:
madd77 wrote:Wich other artist has 5 studio albums over 8 M in the USA ?
Garth Brooks

ouaw...thanks

I also noticed that Eminem already had 5 albums over 5 M and 2 over 10 M

by **madd77** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:13 pm

Garth Brooks

(7 studio albums over 8 M)

Garth Brooks US: 10 Diamond [6]

No Fences US: 17× Platinum[13]

Ropin' the Wind US: 14× Platinum[16]

The Chase US: 9× Platinum[18]

In Pieces US: 8× Platinum[22]

Fresh Horses US: 7× Platinum[24]

Sevens 10 M

what are the finale sales for the album "michael" ? USA and WW ?

by **Andreita2994** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:27 am

thank you pierpinto (and MJDangerous although it's not here anymore) for everything you do...and for answering me...i really appreciate it...thanks to you...i know mj real sales in usa....hopefully in a few years mj will be inside the top10 of best selling soundscan artist ...He deserves it.if they release bad25 and new album (with great material which i'm sure mj left)and i sure he'll get there

by **pierpinto** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:45 pm

BELGIUM

Just got new info that we didn't know already:

Dangerous 3xPlatinum (150,000) in 1993

You Are Not Alone Gold (25,000) in 1995

Earth Song Gold (25,000) in 1996

They Don't Care About Us Gold (25,000) in 1996

Courtesy of Nelson.

by **pierpinto** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:32 am

Flashback

Billboard March 17th - 1984

By March 5th - 1984 (15 months after its release)

30,9 mill Worldwide

1 mill. sold every 4 days

According to Billboard (September 1983) the album shipped 13 million as of September 1983 (over 8 million in The USA).

18 million shipped WW between September 1983 and March 1984.

At this time in 1984 Thriller was storming the charts in SPAIN (20 wks in a row at #1 in 1984) and PORTUGAL (14 wks at #1) and in Belgium (Flanders) , 38 wks at the top and a further 3 wks in 2008 in Wallony and 1 wk in The Flanders. (41 wks overall)

It was also still at #1 in America.

-1,104,000 copies in the USA the week after the American Awards.

-over 1 million the week after the Grammys

- It was selling 200,000 copies per week before the broadcasting of the Thriller video and over 600,000 were sold the week after.

In Italy the album reached #2 (4 wks) on "Musica & Dischi" in 1983 blocked by "Lucio Dalla", but it took the top spot 27 years (Setting a new Record) after its initial release in 2009 : #1 for 1 wk on "Fimi" and #1 (2 wks) on "Musica & Dischi".

In Italy "Thriller" is also the best selling catalogue album of the last 4 years with at least 160,000 copies since Feb. 2008.

by **Deano** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:10 am

AMAZING stats pierpinto! (Adel who? :wink:

)

Once again thanks for your invaluable contribution to this thread. 8-)

by **johnnyboy** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:07 am

The latest OCC chart up to 24/03/12

Below is the official top 10 of all time in the UK (to 24 March 2012). It is,controversial.

01 GREATEST HITS - QUEEN - 5,865,000 (1981)
02 SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - THE BEATLES - 5,046,000 (1967) 03 GOLD: GREATEST HITS - ABBA - 4,994,000 (1992)
04 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY - OASIS 4,521,000 (1995)
05 THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON - 4,273,000 (1982)
06 21 ADELE - 4,165,000 (2011)
07 BROTHERS IN ARMS - DIRE STRAITS - 4,155,000 (1985)
08 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - PINK FLOYD - 4,117,000 (1973)
09 BAD - MICHAEL JACKSON - 3,961,000 (1987)
10 GREATEST HITS II - QUEEN - 3,888,000 (1991)

The OCC only deals with retail figures not shipments and it doesn't have music club sales information.It has compiled charts since 1994. All Time Charts have been contracted out to Alan Jones of Music Week and colleagues.

Both Queen albums include a third of the sales of The Platinum Collection and half from the twin-set Greatest Hits/Greatest Hits 2 - about 700,000 sales for each album.

by **johnnyboy** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:10 am

Pierpinto

You should be allowed to start a new thread with all that stuff on page 1. Why not, Mods?

by **HAL9000** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:51 am

pierpinto wrote:
evaorig wrote:pierpinto I found this for the Thriller soundscan single sale:

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/

Michael Jackson's 1984 hit "Thriller" is in third place. It has sold 2,997,000 copies.
Thanks Evaorig, US figures updated.

26k in the last 5 wks, 3 mill. next week.

Michael Jackson's 1984 hit "Thriller" tops the 3 million mark in digital sales this week. It's the third song from the 1980s to reach this milestone, following Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" and Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger," which achieved the feat just last week. This is Jackson's best-selling digital hit. It has been boosted by its annual resurgence at Halloween. Jackson was very savvy about his career, but I bet even he didn't realize that this would become a Halloween perennial.

Source: Paul Grein | Chart Watch