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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
Amazing article which really helps to realize how massive MJ was / is. The Thriller figure is just so mindblowing that even truly huge figures for Dangerous or HIStory look kind of disappointing next to it.
Was hoping that he would beat The Beatles' CSPC total but his' is huge nonetheless.
Have just noticed a slight mistake in the Dangerous album breakdown though. You've copied / pasted Oceanian figures of Thriller into the Dangerous breakdown.
So you can confirm that Michael Jackson did not outsell Mariah Carey in terms of overall album sales in Asia?
This is AMAZING!! I had been waiting for this like forever. Madonna and Michael are the ultimate Queen and King of Pop.
Under MCs article he has her at
18,500,000 album sales and 30,500,000 total.
On pg47 he has MJ at 25,690,000 for total album sales.
The total in pg47 is about 100 million off on the total CSPC page. So it's likely that he not only outsold her in Asia total Albums but the Beatles as well. The Beatles have 23 million albums and 33 overall
So Mj would be at 380 Million if you include Jackson 5/Jacksons?
Wow!
You gotta do Paul McCartney at some point.
What is the pace of sales every year (recently)of MJ vs. Beatles?
I feel with the artists being so close.......maybe MJ will outsell Beatles one day
Please check page 19.......Invincible album equivalent is off.
I think 1 million singles is worth more than 24 thousand album sales
With so few studio albums, his results are ridiculous. Madonna which is considered to probably be his biggest contender need to sell more albums and more singles and yet she didnt even come close to beating his results. Its also really crazy to think that Thriller alone is almost as big as the entire discography of Britney Spears. It is just unreal.
Does anyone doubt that if the Chandlers had not thrown him under the bus for the mighty dollar (which also paved the way for the Arvizos' ridiculous allegations) and if the US and UK media had not waged an all out war against this guy's character for 30 years he would be by far the biggest selling artist of all time well ahead of the Beatles even without the Jackson 5 and Jacksons records?
There were quite a few people who didn't want that and it's not hard to figure out that they were white.
Yeah and imagine The Beatles never split up and went on to record and sell millions & millions more albums and singles.
No need for fan boy bullshit. Stick to the facts, not "maybes" and "might ofs".
Totally different. The Beatles were a very young group and like all groups were going to disband anyway and they were going to g to age out quicker than MJ did. MJ was a singular artist. His sales were going to fall off anyway(that's inevitable) but had things not happened how they did he would've sold more. Maybe not as many as the Beatles but more
I cant believe Billie Jean is bigger than My Heart Will Go On. I would have accepted if it was Thriller. I thought Thriller was MJ''s biggest single.
Thank you for finally doing MJ! 323M+ CSPC is insane and shows just how far ahead of his peers he really was, with fewer studio releases than most of them.
It'll never happen. The new king of pop will go to either Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars or Justin Bieber.
I just want to make a small correction and let you know that Thriller isnt the best selling international album in Argentina, Luis Miguel has that title
The Beatles will continue to sell records in the future, and their streaming
numbers increase every week > So MJ is not going to surpass The Beatles
any time soon.
