BIGGEST TRACKS – Jackson 5 & The Jacksons
The list of most successful songs is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each of them. It includes the song’s own physical singles sales with a 0,3 weighting, its download and streaming sales, and with appropriate weighting too, plus its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.
1 1969 – I Want You Back [Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5] – 12,100,000
2 1970 – ABC [ABC] – 7,660,000
3 1970 – I’ll Be There [Third Album] – 4,220,000
4 1980 – Can You Feel It [Triumph] – 3,140,000
5 1978 – Blame It on the Boogie [Destiny] – 3,020,000
6 1984 – State of Shock [Victory] – 2,730,000
7 1978 – Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) [Destiny] – 2,110,000
8 1971 – Never Can Say Goodbye [Maybe Tomorrow] – 1,670,000
9 1970 – Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town [Jackson 5 Christmas Album] – 1,560,000
10 1976 – Enjoy Yourself [The Jacksons] – 1,380,000
11 1984 – Torture [Victory] – 1,280,000
12 1969 – Who’s Lovin’ You [Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5] – 1,170,000
13 1973 – Dancing Machine [G.I.T.: Get It Together] – 1,130,000
14 1970 – The Love You Save [ABC] – 1,110,000
15 1976 – Show You the Way to Go [The Jacksons] – 920,000
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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