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Digital Singles Sales – Part 1
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between albums and digital singles.
Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 (1969) – 620,000 equivalent albums
I Want You Back – 3,500,000
Who’s Lovin’ You – 600,000
Remaining tracks – 30,000
ABC (1970) – 474,000 equivalent albums
The Love You Save – 420,000
ABC – 2,680,000
Remaining tracks – 60,000
Third Album (1970) – 126,000 equivalent albums
I’ll Be There – 720,000
Remaining tracks – 120,000
Jackson 5 Christmas Album (1970) – 150,000 equivalent albums
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town – 430,000
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – 180,000
Remaining tracks – 390,000
Maybe Tomorrow (1971) – 80,000 equivalent albums
Never Can Say Goodbye – 480,000
Remaining tracks – 50,000
Not all songs of the Jackson 5 are equally remembered. The Love You Save and I’ll Be There were both solid #1 hits but add for just 1,14 million downloads, an average result for songs that were so successful upon release.
Elsewhere, I Want You Back and ABC retained their popularity and more. Both songs combine for over 6 millions sales.
Those classic Motown hits aren’t the only songs which remain strong. Who’s Lovin’ You is likely more popular today than it has ever been. The former B-Side of I Want You Back has been extensively sang on X Factor-like TV shows giving it a second youth.
Just curious, did you add the total of video sales from MJ solo and Jackson 5? Hope those weren’t counted 2wice.
Hi Nathan!
Various packages include songs from both MJ and the J5, so they can appear under the compilation section of both articles. Their sales are spread among both though, avoiding double counting. For example, you can see The Ultimate Collection box on page 40, it includes songs from 8 Jackson 5’s albums. But sales assigned to them add for only 90k out of the 600k total, the remaining 510k sales going to MJ’s albums as per the distribution of streams!
In the case of Queen, their Greatest Hits 1 & 2 alone are well above 50 mill.
I think there are only 3 more artists with the shot of being above 200m: Queen, Elton and Elvis. The latter has a chance of breaking 300m, though i doubt it.
I can’t wait to see Michael’s article. OMG
Are you combining Michael Jackson’s total with these like you did for Beyonce with DC?
When will we ever get a Michael Jackson CSPC. 🙁
Only a few albums were not certified Gold/Platinum, that’s great! 60s and 70s albums didn’t sold a lot of copies by then, with some few exceptions.
Not a huge showing………..but the boost to MJ’s solo material is going to be significant