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Michael Jackson

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Michael Jackson

Country: US
Birth: 1958-08-29
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Genre: Pop Music, Soul, Dance Music, Disco, Rock Music, Blues, Rhythm And Blues, Funk, New Jack Swing, Hip-hop, Hard Rock, Urban Contemporary, Samba, Dance-pop

On-demand audio streams A-
Monthly listeners 76.5m 18
Lead streams 26.0b 16
Feat streams 1.2b 15
Monthly revenue $1.2m 16
Sales data A+
CSPC units 345.2m 20
Pure albums 284.6m 20
Physical singles 79.4m 19
Digital singles 79.9m 17
Spotify statistics A-
Lead streams 16.5b 16
Feat streams 789.9m 14
Monthly listeners 46.8m 18
Followers 35.5m 16
100m+ tracks 33 13
Popularity 85 17
Followers / Listeners 0.8 9
Replay value 5.1 14
Trends & Indicators B
Daily streams 7.6m 15
Daily listeners +/- 13.4k 10
Daily followers +/- 8.9k 16
Monthly streams 238.9m 15
Monthly listeners +/- 961.1k 10
Weekly followers +/- 76.9k 16
Trend 0.7 9
Globalness 49.6 15
Playcounts are 7+ days old

Monthly listeners map

Below map represents the 50 cities where the artist has the most Spotify monthly listeners.


Album sales map

This second map is based on pure album sales by country.

Artist career totals

Albums statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

'Av.' stands for Average, 'LD' for Last Day.

As a reminder:

  • Studio Album: sales of the original album
  • Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
  • Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
  • Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
  • Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

Songs statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales generated through all formats.

Studio album sales

Compilation album sales

Physical singles sales

Downloads and ringtones sales

Most streamed songs (Top 20)

# Seq. Album Song Spotify total Spotify daily AOD total EAS
1 53 Thriller Billie Jean 2,135,313,512 1,039,714 3,488,843,905 2,325,895
2 51 Thriller Beat It 1,378,209,648 705,770 2,251,827,801 1,501,218
3 88 Bad Smooth Criminal - 2012 Remaster 863,562,112 451,748 1,410,955,999 940,637
4 66 Thriller Thriller 715,718,926 278,896 1,169,398,123 779,598
5 47 Off The Wall Rock with You - Single Version 671,053,120 443,708 1,096,419,600 730,946
6 41 Off The Wall Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 578,739,660 327,015 945,590,576 630,393
7 93 Bad The Way You Make Me Feel - 2012 Remaster 550,617,055 404,256 899,641,643 599,761
8 375 Features Don’t Matter To Me (with Michael Jackson) 528,422,413 110,972 1,033,285,641 688,857
9 86 Bad Man in the Mirror - 2012 Remaster 516,244,280 185,157 843,480,687 562,320
10 60 Thriller P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 483,370,798 289,309 789,769,396 526,512
11 121 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I They Don't Care About Us 424,828,199 297,741 694,117,872 462,745
12 74 Bad Bad - 2012 Remaster 402,024,375 180,703 656,859,183 437,906
13 104 Dangerous Remember the Time 390,724,600 296,627 638,396,718 425,597
14 178 Xscape Chicago 388,735,648 439,839 635,147,011 423,431
15 183 Xscape Love Never Felt So Good 386,307,795 144,697 631,180,193 420,786
16 76 Bad Dirty Diana - 2012 Remaster 277,408,553 150,897 453,252,009 302,168
17 95 Dangerous Black or White 266,875,375 123,560 436,042,070 290,694
18 232 Number Ones Black or White - Single Version 255,877,152 65,311 418,072,305 278,714
19 100 Dangerous Heal the World 250,136,928 120,183 408,693,473 272,462
20 59 Thriller Human Nature 236,354,542 168,943 386,174,722 257,449
Album Song
∑ = 11,700,524,691 ∑ = 6,225,046 ∑ = 19,287,148,939 ∑ = 12,858,099
Unlock full updated discography data Table keys
  • Seq. stands for sequence. It sorts albums in discographic order.
  • Spotify total reflects release to date (RTD) streams of the track as shown on their software.
  • Spotify daily is calculated based on streams over the last 1 day(s).
  • AOD (Audio on-demand) reflects total streams through all AOD platforms, Spotify included. The non-Spotify part is an algorithm based figure which considers the main artist's strength and Spotify shares in each market.
  • AOD streams divided by 1,500 would provide equivalent album sales (EAS) for the track.
  • The 'Song' and 'Album' grey fields at the bottom of the table allow filtering on them.

Thresholds - CSPC

Date Format Title Milestone
2025-03-16 Album Off The Wall 33,000,000

Thresholds - Spotify KPIs

Date KPI Milestone
2024-12-25 Followers 34,000,000
2024-11-02 Listeners 55,000,000
2024-10-30 Listeners 51,000,000
2024-10-27 Listeners 50,000,000
2024-10-24 Followers 33,000,000
2024-10-22 Listeners 49,000,000
2024-10-18 Listeners 48,000,000
2024-10-13 Listeners 47,000,000
2024-10-10 Listeners 46,000,000
2024-09-08 Listeners 45,000,000
2024-08-20 Listeners 44,000,000
2024-08-19 Followers 32,000,000
2024-05-31 Followers 31,000,000
2024-03-14 Followers 30,000,000
2023-11-02 Listeners 43,000,000
2023-11-01 Listeners 42,000,000
2023-10-30 Listeners 40,000,000
2023-10-28 Listeners 39,000,000
2023-10-21 Listeners 38,000,000
2023-10-03 Followers 29,000,000
2023-07-24 Followers 28,000,000
2023-04-30 Followers 27,000,000
2023-02-12 Followers 26,000,000
2022-11-27 Followers 25,000,000
2022-11-19 Listeners 37,000,000
2022-11-18 Listeners 36,000,000
2022-09-13 Followers 24,000,000
2022-08-03 Listeners 30,000,000
2022-06-10 Followers 23,000,000
2022-03-12 Followers 22,000,000
2021-12-22 Followers 21,000,000
2021-10-09 Followers 20,000,000
2021-07-13 Followers 19,000,000
2021-04-05 Followers 18,000,000
2021-01-10 Followers 17,000,000
2020-10-15 Followers 16,000,000
2020-07-08 Followers 15,000,000
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Thresholds - Streams

Date Format Title Milestone
2025-04-25 Album Bad 3,200,000,000
2025-04-19 Single Bad - 2012 Remaster 400,000,000
2025-04-07 Album Thriller 5,500,000,000
2025-04-05 Album Xscape 1,200,000,000
2025-03-29 Single Billie Jean 2,100,000,000
2025-03-08 Album Dangerous 1,300,000,000
2025-03-05 Single Thriller 700,000,000
2025-03-03 Album Thriller 5,400,000,000
2025-02-21 Album Bad 3,100,000,000
2025-01-28 Album Thriller 5,300,000,000
2025-01-15 Single Beat It 1,300,000,000
2024-12-31 Single Billie Jean 2,000,000,000
2024-12-24 Album Thriller 5,200,000,000
2024-12-17 Single Smooth Criminal 800,000,000
2024-12-15 Album Bad 3,000,000,000
2024-12-10 Album Off The Wall 1,500,000,000
2024-11-29 Single Rock With You 600,000,000
2024-11-17 Album Thriller 5,100,000,000
2024-11-01 Album Xscape 1,100,000,000
2024-10-23 Album Thriller 5,000,000,000
2024-10-13 Album Bad 2,900,000,000
2024-10-11 Single Billie Jean 1,900,000,000
2024-10-09 Album Dangerous 1,200,000,000
2024-10-03 Artist
all credits
Michael Jackson 17,000,000,000
2024-10-03 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 16,000,000,000
2024-09-23 Album Thriller 4,900,000,000
2024-09-17 Single Beat It 1,200,000,000
2024-09-06 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 15,000,000,000
2024-08-30 Album Off The Wall 1,400,000,000
2024-08-19 Album Thriller 4,800,000,000
2024-08-05 Album Bad 2,800,000,000
2024-07-26 Artist
all credits
Michael Jackson 15,000,000,000
2024-07-18 Single Billie Jean 1,800,000,000
2024-07-15 Album Thriller 4,700,000,000
2024-06-29 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 14,000,000,000
2024-06-18 Single Thriller 600,000,000
2024-06-07 Album Thriller 4,600,000,000
2024-05-22 Album Bad 2,700,000,000
2024-05-18 Album Xscape 1,000,000,000
2024-05-15 Single Smooth Criminal 700,000,000
2024-05-07 Album Off The Wall 1,300,000,000
2024-05-02 Album Thriller 4,500,000,000
2024-04-30 Single Beat It 1,100,000,000
2024-04-27 Album Dangerous 1,100,000,000
2024-04-24 Single Billie Jean 1,700,000,000
2024-03-26 Artist
all credits
Michael Jackson 14,000,000,000
2024-03-26 Album Thriller 4,400,000,000
2024-03-07 Album Bad 2,600,000,000
2024-02-17 Album Thriller 4,300,000,000
2024-02-15 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 13,000,000,000
2024-01-16 Single Billie Jean 1,600,000,000
2024-01-08 Album Off The Wall 1,200,000,000
2024-01-08 Album Thriller 4,200,000,000
2023-12-16 Album Bad 2,500,000,000
2023-11-30 Album Xscape 900,000,000
2023-11-28 Single Beat It 1,000,000,000
2023-11-24 Album Thriller 4,100,000,000
2023-11-10 Album Dangerous 1,000,000,000
2023-11-07 Artist
all credits
Michael Jackson 13,000,000,000
2023-10-17 Album Thriller 4,000,000,000
2023-09-25 Single Billie Jean 1,500,000,000
2023-09-21 Album Bad 2,400,000,000
2023-09-18 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 12,000,000,000
2023-09-04 Album Thriller 3,900,000,000
2023-08-25 Single Smooth Criminal 600,000,000
2023-08-01 Album Off The Wall 1,100,000,000
2023-07-21 Album Thriller 3,800,000,000
2023-06-10 Single Beat It 900,000,000
2023-06-05 Album Thriller 3,700,000,000
2023-05-31 Single Billie Jean 1,400,000,000
2023-05-23 Album Xscape 800,000,000
2023-04-22 Album Dangerous 900,000,000
2023-04-21 Album Thriller 3,600,000,000
2023-04-12 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 11,000,000,000
2023-04-01 Album Bad 2,200,000,000
2023-03-03 Album Thriller 3,500,000,000
2023-02-21 Album Off The Wall 1,000,000,000
2023-01-19 Artist
all credits
Michael Jackson 11,000,000,000
2023-01-13 Album Thriller 3,400,000,000
2023-01-04 Album Bad 2,100,000,000
2022-12-11 Album Xscape 700,000,000
2022-11-22 Album Thriller 3,300,000,000
2022-10-31 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 10,000,000,000
2022-10-07 Album Thriller 3,200,000,000
2022-10-05 Album Bad 2,000,000,000
2022-09-14 Album Dangerous 800,000,000
2022-08-16 Album Thriller 3,100,000,000
2022-07-29 Artist
all credits
Michael Jackson 10,000,000,000
2022-07-08 Album Bad 1,900,000,000
2022-07-07 Album Off The Wall 900,000,000
2022-06-22 Album Thriller 3,000,000,000
2022-05-23 Album Xscape 600,000,000
2022-05-04 Album Dangerous 1,400,000,000
2022-05-04 Album Thriller 5,800,000,000
2022-05-04 Album Off The Wall 1,600,000,000
2022-04-28 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 9,000,000,000
2022-04-25 Album Thriller 2,900,000,000
2022-04-07 Album Bad 1,800,000,000
2022-01-13 Artist
all credits
Michael Jackson 9,000,000,000
2021-10-05 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 8,000,000,000
2021-07-13 Artist
all credits
Michael Jackson 8,000,000,000
2021-02-27 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 7,000,000,000
2020-12-08 Artist
all credits
Michael Jackson 7,000,000,000
2020-07-08 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 6,000,000,000
2020-05-16 Artist
leads
Michael Jackson 5,000,000,000
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Overtakings

Date Ranking Overtaking
2025-04-28 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #77 to #76.
2025-04-26 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #85 to #82.
2025-04-26 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #77 to #76.
2025-04-25 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #78 to #77.
2025-04-23 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #77 to #76.
2025-04-22 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #84 to #82.
2025-04-22 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1982 Thriller climbs from #8 to #7.
2025-04-22 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1987 Smooth Criminal climbs from #8 to #7.
2025-04-21 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #78 to #76.
2025-04-19 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #83 to #82.
2025-04-18 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #77 to #76.
2025-04-17 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #85 to #83.
2025-04-17 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #79 to #77.
2025-04-13 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #83 to #81.
2025-04-13 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #78 to #76.
2025-04-13 Most Monthly Listeners Michael Jackson climbs from #64 to #61.
2025-04-12 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1982 Billie Jean climbs from #9 to #2.
2025-04-12 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1982 Beat It climbs from #8 to #4.
2025-04-12 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1982 Thriller climbs from #10 to #8.
2025-04-11 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #84 to #83.
2025-04-11 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #79 to #78.
2025-04-10 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #87 to #84.
2025-04-10 Top Songs CSPC - Year 1987 The Way You Make Me Feel climbs from #10 to #9.
2025-04-09 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1979 Rock With You climbs from #8 to #6.
2025-04-08 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #84 to #82.
2025-04-08 Most Monthly Listeners Michael Jackson climbs from #65 to #64.
2025-04-07 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #77 to #76.
2025-04-06 Top Albums CSPC - All Time Off The Wall climbs from #71 to #70.
2025-04-04 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #85 to #82.
2025-04-04 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #79 to #77.
2025-04-04 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1979 Rock With You climbs from #8 to #6.
2025-04-03 Most Monthly Listeners Michael Jackson climbs from #65 to #64.
2025-04-03 Most Spotify Followers Michael Jackson climbs from #48 to #47.
2025-04-03 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1987 Smooth Criminal climbs from #8 to #4.
2025-04-03 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1982 Thriller climbs from #8 to #6.
2025-03-31 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #83 to #82.
2025-03-31 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #77 to #76.
2025-03-30 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #84 to #83.
2025-03-30 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1979 Rock With You climbs from #8 to #7.
2025-03-29 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #85 to #84.
2025-03-29 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #79 to #77.
2025-03-29 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1982 Thriller climbs from #8 to #7.
2025-03-27 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #84 to #83.
2025-03-27 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #79 to #76.
2025-03-27 Most Monthly Listeners Michael Jackson climbs from #65 to #64.
2025-03-26 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Michael Jackson climbs from #85 to #84.
2025-03-25 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1987 Smooth Criminal climbs from #8 to #5.
2025-03-23 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Michael Jackson climbs from #78 to #76.
2025-03-23 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1982 Beat It climbs from #4 to #3.
2025-03-23 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1982 Thriller climbs from #8 to #7.
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Artist rankings

With 345,159,000 EAS, Michael Jackson ranks #2 among the most successful artists of alltime.
With 10,474,000 EAS, Michael Jackson ranks #10 among the most successful artists of 1972.
With 33,033,000 EAS, Michael Jackson ranks #2 among the most successful artists of 1979.
With 120,710,000 EAS, Michael Jackson ranks #1 among the most successful artists of 1982.
With 62,283,000 EAS, Michael Jackson ranks #1 among the most successful artists of 1987.
With 47,520,000 EAS, Michael Jackson ranks #4 among the most successful artists of 1991.
With 33,310,000 EAS, Michael Jackson ranks #3 among the most successful artists of 1995.
With 235,440,000 copies, Michael Jackson ranks #3 among the artists with the most pure album sales of all time.
With 79,350,000 copies, Michael Jackson ranks #4 among the artists with the most physical single sales of all time.
With 79,933,000 units, Michael Jackson ranks #23 among the artists with the most digital single sales of all time.
With 27,001,312,232 streams, Michael Jackson ranks #84 among artists with the most streams on audio on-demand streaming services.
With 16,525,894,848 lead streams on Spotify, Michael Jackson ranks #80 among the most streamed artists of all time.
With 46,801,356 listeners currently, Michael Jackson ranks #62 among artists with the most monthly listeners on Spotify.
With 55,663,612 listeners, Michael Jackson ranks #71 among artists with the highest monthly listeners peak on Spotify.
With 35,531,952 followers, Michael Jackson ranks #48 among artists with the most followers on Spotify.

Album rankings

With 33,066,000 EAS, Off The Wall ranks #70 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 123,357,000 EAS, Thriller ranks #1 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 66,684,000 EAS, Bad ranks #5 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 47,523,000 EAS, Dangerous ranks #21 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 33,239,000 EAS, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I ranks #69 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 33,066,000 EAS, Off The Wall ranks #2 among the most successful albums of 1979.
With 123,357,000 EAS, Thriller ranks #1 among the most successful albums of 1982.
With 66,684,000 EAS, Bad ranks #1 among the most successful albums of 1987.
With 47,523,000 EAS, Dangerous ranks #3 among the most successful albums of 1991.
With 33,239,000 EAS, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I ranks #3 among the most successful albums of 1995.
With 1,631,738,076 streams on Spotify, Off The Wall ranks #4 among the most streamed albums of 1979.
With 5,562,282,672 streams on Spotify, Thriller ranks #1 among the most streamed albums of 1982.
With 3,208,324,334 streams on Spotify, Bad ranks #2 among the most streamed albums of 1987.
With 1,337,359,214 streams on Spotify, Dangerous ranks #9 among the most streamed albums of 1991.

Song rankings

With 43,887,000 EAS, Billie Jean ranks #3 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 28,457,000 EAS, Beat It ranks #13 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 24,530,000 EAS, Thriller ranks #22 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 19,544,000 EAS, Black or White ranks #48 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 14,406,000 EAS, Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough ranks #3 among the most successful songs of 1979.
With 10,122,000 EAS, Rock with You ranks #7 among the most successful songs of 1979.
With 43,887,000 EAS, Billie Jean ranks #1 among the most successful songs of 1982.
With 28,457,000 EAS, Beat It ranks #2 among the most successful songs of 1982.
With 24,530,000 EAS, Thriller ranks #3 among the most successful songs of 1982.
With 7,765,000 EAS, P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) ranks #6 among the most successful songs of 1982.
With 6,458,000 EAS, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' ranks #8 among the most successful songs of 1982.
With 15,123,000 EAS, Man in the Mirror ranks #5 among the most successful songs of 1987.
With 13,525,000 EAS, Smooth Criminal ranks #7 among the most successful songs of 1987.
With 12,699,000 EAS, The Way You Make Me Feel ranks #9 among the most successful songs of 1987.
With 19,544,000 EAS, Black or White ranks #4 among the most successful songs of 1991.
With 10,599,000 EAS, They Don't Care About Us ranks #6 among the most successful songs of 1995.
With 7,637,000 EAS, You Are Not Alone ranks #10 among the most successful songs of 1995.
With 670,609,412 streams on Spotify, Rock With You ranks #8 among the most streamed tracks of 1979.
With 2,134,273,798 streams on Spotify, Billie Jean ranks #2 among the most streamed tracks of 1982.
With 1,377,503,878 streams on Spotify, Beat It ranks #4 among the most streamed tracks of 1982.
With 715,440,030 streams on Spotify, Thriller ranks #8 among the most streamed tracks of 1982.
With 863,110,364 streams on Spotify, Smooth Criminal ranks #8 among the most streamed tracks of 1987.

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