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Hi Lawyeris!
Indeed you have nothing to do with Steve. I can disagree with you on many subjects but you have in fact never create multiple accounts and such. As for clearing the situation, that Steve has been banned, he was obviously only aiming to troll again and again, creating pointless tensions every time he spammed comments.
https://chartmasters.org/2018/06/learn-how-to-exploit-youtube-insights/3/
in this article you put MJ's Asian album sales at 24.163 million, but here you put it at 25.69 million. The global figure is the same, why is that?
Hi dhhd!
I'm not seeing this 25.69 million figure, where is it that I can explain if needed?
Let me check it tonight once I have the file available, may be a silly mistake since J5's figures are on the same sheet as well as some music videos, the excel formula may consider too many lines! Or it's the opposite, the 24m is possibly only for albums with identified sales, I'll confirm this to you!
My bad Dhhd, I'm completely flooded with work lately and this question got out of my mind. I just checked, the real total is 25.69 million, and the figure of 24.163 million is the total of Asian countries listed on YouTube, so basically Asia minus China.
Can you please show numbers of mj's "this is it" video selling 12 million copies..............it's just been bugging me. I find it incredibly hard to believe it sold that much.
Thank you,
Nathan
Ok, if that is the case, what albums was "we are the world" featured on in Mj's discography?
Hi Nathan!
It was indeed an incredible seller, scanning over 1.7 million units in its first week alone in the US. Here, it scanned http://www.the-numbers.com/home-market/dvd-sales/201 0" rel="nofollow">2.78 million DVDs in 2010 and near http://www.the-numbers.com/home-market/bluray-sales/201 0" rel="nofollow">500k Bluray. Then, once the price was down to $9 and $11 for both formats from early 2011, https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Michael-Jacksons-This-Is-It#tab=video-sale s" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">it added $5.96 million and over $1 million, in DVD and BluRay, respectively. That works out in over 750k more sales combined. Add these catalog sales to 2010 units and you get over 4 million sales to date. Since the price was dropped to about $7 at some point, the real number is likely a bit higher. On theaters, the US represented only 28% of its gross.
The DVD / BD was also massive elsewhere - in Japan, it sold 330k units in day 1, then quickly scanned over 1.5 million units, shipping 2 million during its year of release. Some copies were likely exported to near by markets. It did over 650k in the UK at retail, over 550k in France, and over 250k in Italy. While figures for DVDs in countries like Brazil, Germany and Mexico are rare, it no doubt did wonders there. In the former, all his DVDs sold more than in the UK / France, while an unofficial release from 2009 did 540k. Sadly, there is no code system in non-music DVDs, but This Is It may be well over a million in this country. In Australia, Number Ones (DVD) did over 345k, Live In Bucharest did 210k, and This Is It sold way more than both in all markets. In China, it got a limited 75k units edition.
Now that we have Discogs, it would likely be possible to refine its estimate. Owners from the US / Canada add for only 107 out of the 889 Worldwide total.
Why would it need to be on an album? It's an orphan song just like many others for many artists 😉
In this case, the Demo version which sold very well after his passing was made available in 2004 inside The Ultimate Collection box set.
Dude. If you really dont trust this BOZO website then why are u wasting so much time here. If u hated this site so much than just leave it already.
"The RIAA is NOT the authority on record sales…….Anyone using them as a basis in reality as far as the music business is concerned are idiots."
The RIAA is responsible for certifying Gold and Platinum albums and singles in the United States. So r u telling everybody that for decades albums and singles that has been certified platinum and gold and silver are fake? If there is anybody that sounded like a Bozo here it is u.
Hi MJDangerous!
Thanks for your awesome work, which I follow since april 2004 (charts in france, then UKMix) 🙂
Maybe a little study about Michael's sales since his death could be interesting! Thanks.
Have a nice day.
François
Hi,MJD
Dangerous "only" sold 250k copies in the "remaining markets" in Asia. How did the total climb to 2.3 million for Michael?
Hi MJD,
i was just reading some old billboard issues when i found out that prior to april 1. 1991 a gold certification for video longform was 25 000 units and a platinum 50 000 units sold....In fact,just like video singles....
So it means that the 8 times riaa certification of april 17 1989 for "moonwalker" is equivalent to 400 000 sales ....Not the 800 000 that appears on the riaa website.... Am i right or did i make a mistake somewhere ?
I have another question regarding short form albums ... At one time gold was 250 000 and platinum 500 000 ; now it's gold :
500 000 and platinum 1 000 000 just like albums sales ....
Do you know precisely when did the riaa change that certification level ? What year ?
Thanks
