The Michael Jackson Biopic is coming out in 2025. Would it be possible for Michael to reach 400million total sales after the release of the film?

He's at 520-525 million right now, after the biopic he'll be #1 pretty comfortably

He absolutely needs a update, and Sony needs to re-certify his decade old record figures at this point.

Is he? It honestly wouldn't surprise me if he was close to selling 500million records world wide.

Or Michael Jackson estate confirmed 2012, that he has sold one billion records (albums). When Jackson died 2009 album sales was 750 million copies according Sony.
Not so reliable numbers.

And yet Queen are the best selling music act on continental Europe.
And their streams are almost double than MJs.

"A huge survey" lol! Here is a bit more info on the "huge survey".

Incidentally, Queen are named top global artist, Jackson is 3rd.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0509/S00231/queens-we-are-the-champions-top-walkman-song.htm
https://www.theregister.com/2005/09/29/world_music_poll/

Sony themselves explained where the numbers came from, unlike The Beatles and Elvis who have no credibility for their claimed sales.

"Michael Jackson: The Numbers (2010)

Exclusive Look Into The Lifetime Sales Of The King Of Pop

Source: Sony Music USA, Universal Music

Got To Be There: 6,000,000
Ben: 6,500,000
Music & Me: 4,800,000
Forever Michael: 4,900,000
Off The Wall: 22,100,000
Thriller: 69,800,000
Bad: 36,100,000
Dangerous: 35,200,000
HIStory: 20,900,000 (41.8 million units)
Blood On The Dance Floor: 7,000,000
20th Century Masters: 2,500,000
Invincible: 13,300,000
Number Ones: 11,900,000
The Ultimate Collection: 1,020,000 (6 million units)
The Essential: 8,900,000 (17.8 million units)
Visionary: 5,000,000 (unit sales)
King Of Pop: 6,000,000
Hello World The Motown Solo Collection: 1,020,000
Michael Jackson The Stripped Mixes: 1,350,000
The Definitive Collection: 1,200,000
This Is It: 5,200,000
Other: 22,000,000
Album Sales - 327,290,000 units

Singles/Digital Downloads:
Motown/Universal Albums: 27,000,000
Off The Wall: 22,000,000
Thriller: 41,500,000
Bad: 32,800,000
Dangerous: 30,300,000
HIStory: 26,000,000
BOTDF: 2,300,000
Invincible: 6,800,000
Other: 15,000,000
Total Singles/Digital Downloads: 203,700,000

VHS/DVD's:
The Making Of MJ's Thriller: 9,500,000
Moonwalker: 3,500,000
Ghosts: 300,000
Number Ones: 5,600,000
The One: 1,050,000
Dangerous The Short Films: 2,500,000
Live In Bucharest: 2,500,000
This Is It: 11,200,000
Other: 4,000,000
Total VHS/DVD Sales: 40,150,000

Music Video Sales:
I-Tunes: 9,500,000
Other Sources: 6,000,000
Total Music Video Sales: 15,500,000
Total Global Ringtone Sales: 6,500,000
Total SOLO Michael Jackson Unit Sales: 593,140,000
Including Jackson 5 sales: 722,840,000

This only 30 million off from their cited figure of 750 million at the time meaning they included Jackson 5 into that total, all of it adds up.

Chartmasters gives 240 million album sales to Jackson and EAS is 330 M (physical, digitals, audio- videostreams).

The Beatles have 318 M pure albums and EAS is 433 M.
Jackson comes 100 million after the Beatles and gap is growing.

Hi Anon,

You speak about having "no credibility" and then go on listing a list full of delusional figures from online boards and pretend it comes from Sony/Universal. This comment section isn't for fanatic's trash, I'll just remove your messages if you are just spreading fake informations.

Do you think that Michael will reach 400million total sales at the end of 2025? Since the biopic is coming out.

Those figures are a bit high, the Beatles are probably inflated too however in his book Michael Jackson - The Magic And The Madness, J. Randy Taraborrelli wrote: '...I also reviewed a computer readout of all of Motown's exact sales figures as of December 1990. This computer readout is over ten thousand pages long and includes the album, tape and CD sales of virtually every Motown release from the time of the company's inception. I refer to these figures quite often in this book.'
He cited Ben at 1,701,475 in the United States, if we take into account his Motown figures and the worldwide adult figures provided by MJDangerous and other users who ran the website that documented them. At the time of his death he'd actually have this

• Motown Singles - 14,037,560
• Motown Albums - 21,386,872

The rest of his global sales figures at the end of 2010

• Adult singles - 96,728,270
• Adult albums -  206,626,000
• Music Videos -  29,300,000

Factoring in Double albums & box set album units it would be about 226 million solo albums
The most accurate total of sales he had by 2010 was up to 390 million max
Excluding the sales he had from 2009, he sold in additional 53 million worldwide according to Billboard up to 2019, putting figures by 2019 at least 453 million, today he's now around 460-470 million not taking into account largely outdated certification figures that Sony hasn't applied to update like Digital Singles etc, which would put it above 100 million digital singles

Why don't you post the full top 100 from that list, since you can't read i'll show you
1 We Are The Champions- Queen
2 Toxic- Britney Spears 
3 Billie Jean- Michael Jackson 
4 Hotel California- The Eagles 
5 La Tortura- Shakira
6 Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
7 Yesterday- The Beatles 
8 One- U2
9 Imagine- John Lennon 
10 Sultans of Swing- Dire Straits
11 November Rain- Guns n Roses 
12 We Will Rock You- Queen
13 La Noche Que La Luna Salio Tarde- O91
14 Everytime- Britney Spears 
15 Angels Robbie- Williams 
16
17 With Or Without You- U2
18 Angel o demonio- Carolina Soto 
19 Thriller- Michael Jackson 
20 Le deseo- Carolina Soto 
21 Let it Be- The Beatles 
22 I will always love you- Whitney Houston 
23 Tunnel Of Love- Dire Straits 
24 Beat It- Michael Jackson 
25
26 Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
27 I Promised Myself- A*Teens
28 Sera- Carolina Soto 
29 Telegraph Road- Dire Straits 
30 Color of Love- Snap!
31 Electric City- Music Instructor 
32 My Heart Will Go On- Celine Dion 
33 Del Odio Al Amor- Miguel Angel 
34 Summer of '69- Bryan Adams 
35 Stairway To Heaven- Led Zeppelin 
36 Like a Virgin- Madonna
37 Your Song- Elton John 
38 Baby One More Time- Britney Spears 
39 Confusion- 666
40 Camino- Lili Ivanova 
41 We've Had Enough- Michael Jackson 
42 Sola- Gisela
43 No- Shakira
44 Más allá- Gisela
45 For All That I Am- A*Teens
46 Always- Bon Jovi 
47 Te Falta Un Hombre- Miguel Angel
48 Wonderwall- Oasis
49 No Me Enseñaste- Thalía
50 Smooth Criminal- Michael Jackson
51 La Camisa Negra- Juanes
52 The Final Countdown- Europe
53 Buen Perdedor- Miguel Angel 
54 Nothing Else Matters- Metallica
55
56 Clocks- Coldplay
57 Amor Violento- Ximena Abarca 
58 You Rock My World- Michael Jackson 
59 Hasta El Limite- Myriam
60 Endulzame el oido- Nadia
61 They Don't Care About Us (Single Version)- Michael Jackson 
62 We Belong Together- Mariah Carey 
63 Hablando en sueños- Jose Ignacio Lapido
64 Tengo Fe- Gisela
65 El Juego De La Resistencia- Ximena Abarca
66 The Scientist- Coldplay
67 Sin ti no hay nada- Myriam
68 Will You Be There- Michael Jackson 
69 Trampa De Cristal- Daniela
70 Losing My Religion- R.E.M.
71 Money For Nothing- Dire Straits 
72 Can't Get You Out of My Head- Kylie Minogue 
73 Like a Prayer- Madonna
74
75 Who Is It- Michael Jackson 
76 Dueña De Mi Corazón- Daniela
77 Earth Song- Michael Jackson 
78 Black Or White- Michael Jackson 
79 Killing Me Softly- The Fugees 
80 Bad- Michael Jackson 
81 Dirty Diana- Michael Jackson 
82 Porque Soy Mujer- Myriam
83 Contigo Si- Nadia
84 Creep- Radiohead
85 The Way You Make Me Feel- Michael Jackson
86 Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough- Michael Jackson 
87 Streets of Philadelphia- Bruce Springsteen 
88 You Are Not Alone- Michael Jackson 
89 Man In The Mirror- Michael Jackson 
90 The Wall- Pink Floyd 
91 Heal the World- Michael Jackson 
92 Ruégame- Ximena Abarca 
93 Someone's Watching Over Me- Hilary Duff 
94 Vertigo- U2
95 I Will Survive- Gloria Gaynor 
96 Creep- Radiohead
97 Como Acaban Los Sueños- 091
98 Feel- Robbie Williams 
99 El Amor De Mi Vida- Camilo Sesto 
100 Candle in the Wind- Elton John

Queen had 3 songs, Michael had 18 of the top 100 on the list

I understand that Journalists can't help their bias when it comes to being against Michael Jackson but they should at least be smart enough to be able to read. Unfortunately most of them cannot do so, so i'll spoonfeed you
http://www.walkmanphones100.com/en/chart2.ht m" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"> https://web.archive.org/web/20051124060725/http://www.walkmanphones100.com/en/chart2.htm
The rest of the list can be found there, if you aren't bright enough to search it out.

LOL If it wasn't for the media Lynching him over false allegations and dehumanizing him with racial remarks, slurs and accusations about him 24/7 for decades he would have already been far and away the #1 artist in sales by the time Invincible came out. He's the most famous person to ever live, and his career was still grossly underachieved based on what he could have accomplished if he weren't so horrendously treated