CSPC: Michael Jackson Popularity Analysis

Digital Singles Sales – Part 4

As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between albums and digital singles.

Invincible (2001) – 273,000 equivalent albums

You Rock My World – 1,040,000
Butterflies – 370,000
Remaining tracks – 410,000

Michael (2010) – 434,000 equivalent albums

Hold My Hand – 1,430,000
Remaining tracks – 1,460,000

Xscape (2014) – 644,000 equivalent albums

Love Never Felt So Good – 2,900,000
Remaining tracks – 1,390,000

Orphan – 510,000 equivalent albums

Say Say Say – 340,000
Somebody’s Watching Me – 1,010,000
We Are The World – 1,070,000
Blood On The Dancefloor – 140,000
Ghosts – 160,000
One More Chance – 170,000
This Is It – 100,000
Remaining tracks – 500,000

While albums Invincible, Michael and Xscape enjoyed far less single releases than their predecessors, each of them have one million selling download. The biggest of the three is the 2014 hit Love Never Felt So Good that benefited from a strong Asian smash to amass 2,9 million sales.