Digital Singles Sales – Part 3
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between albums and digital singles.
The Jacksons (1976) – 33,000 equivalent albums
Enjoy Yourself – 150,000
Remaining tracks – 70,000
Goin’ Places (1977) – 3,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 20,000
Destiny (1978) – 246,000 equivalent albums
Blame It on the Boogie – 740,000
Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) – 870,000
Remaining tracks – 30,000
Enjoy Yourself has been surprisingly weak lately, with Show You the Way to Go doing even worse. Both songs had almost no impact even during the much hyped passing of Michael Jackson.
The same can’t be said about Blame It on the Boogie and Shake Your Body which continue to be pretty popular. Even before their inclusion on various Disco hits playlists they were doing well on iTunes.
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