Michael Jackson breaks chart records →
Jackson’s albums take up the top nine (eight solo albums, one Jackson 5 compilation) positions on its Top Pop Catalog Albums chart, which measures the sales of albums that are more than 18 months old. Jackson’s Number Ones comp occupies the top spot, selling 108,000 copies.
Number Ones, as well as The Essential Michael Jackson (102,000 copies sold) and Thriller (101,000 copies sold) outsold the Black Eyed Peas’ The E.N.D., which tops the Billboard 200 with sales of 88,000. This marks the first time in history that a catalog album has outsold the album on top of the Billboard 200.
Also, this past week Jackson became the first artist to sell a million song downloads in a week. Jackson’s songs take up as many as seven of the iTunes download chart’s top 10 spots, six of Billboard’s Hot Digital Songs top 10 and a record-smashing 25 songs in that chart’s top 75.
I can’t imagine what would happen if a Beatle ever died.
