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Great work as usual MJD, nice to see that you included some sales
from my home country Norway.
I was guessing that CSPC for MJ was in the range of 300-325,
and yes Thriller is an absolute monster > Keep up the good work 🙂
Yes this is were I was confused. If his pure album sales er 235. In the analys he claim that mj sold over 80 mill physical singles and that puts him at over 300. He sure sold more than 10 mill digital singles
You really need to read page 2. This is not just records sales this is CSPC analysis.
Chris, Page 48 explains the method. Singles are weighted using the methodology relevant to their format. 🙂
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 1/11750 for Video stream)
Hello MJD really complimented for analyzing the undisputed myth " the king of pop " that is Michael Jackson. Then I have 2 questions to ask :
1) Don't stop til you get enough counting both the official video on VEVO and the other videos uploaded to this song, I believe it exceeds 143,500,000 views
2) then I thought that Thriller had only sold in U.S. about 33 million copies sold
Not quite
Madonnas Studio Albums 146,450,000 pg20
MJs Studio Albums 182,600,000(without posthumous 173,500,000) pg16
Madonnas Wirldwide Albums 201,900,000 pg53
MJs Worldwide Albums
235,440,000 pg47
Okay, thanks. Can you do the single/streaming sales breakdown of that song as well?
Wow! Thriller is an absolute monster in every category! I can't really see anything taking it's top spot in the future, even if the music industry peaks again.
All in all an amazing article!
Great articel, we have waited it so long, no doubt King of pop! Michael Jackson is one of famous name in the earth! I wish you do Barbra's CSPC next, you had said it may be completed during summer, and few days left(ㄒoㄒ)
Yes, I would love to see Elvis. I kinda feel as tho he sold more compilation albums than actual original material studio albums. If it wasn't for the endless amounts of greatest hits & box set releases... MJ would be over Elvis in total sales.
speechless. 116 million CSPC album copies of thriller! 3 albums over 40 million!! huge selling machine. this is a masterpiece of an article. His track finally overtakes celine's as number CSPC track copies. 3 more artists who have a CSPC of over 190 million (Elton John, Queen and Elvis Presley) can't wait for those. also Barbra and Diana Ross to complete all the big selling female artists.
Fantastic work you guys, keep em coming!! <3
