Posted on 07/01/2009 7:01:33 AM PDT by Perdogg
Sales of Michael Jackson's music have skyrocketed since he died suddenly last Thursday, returning the late pop star to the top-selling spot he held more than once during his career.
U.S. retailers sold 415,000 albums by Michael Jackson in the four days following his death, according to Nielsen Co.'s SoundScan, compared with fewer than 10,000 copies in the previous full week. More than half of those album sales were digital downloads made on services such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes and Amazon.com Inc.'s AmazonMP3.
In addition, the artist sold more than 2.3 million digitally downloaded songs since his death. That compares with 37,000 song downloads during the previous week.
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Michael Jackson died?!!
Looks like he had to die in order to get out of debt.
Stopping spending often has that effect.
Sweet carreer move, but he stole it from Jimi, Janis and Jim.
and Elvis.
That song (”Rock With You”) is from the “Off the Wall” LP (1979). Be sure to check this one out too as it’s from the same album, but never charted. It’s my favorite song from the record:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klja3RBVXis
Yeah .....rumor is he choked to death eating a baby goat. But don’t quote me on that
I heard it was food poisoning from eating 10 year old weiners.
‘Zackly.
I think Mikey would have appreciated it more if his “fans” were buying all of these CDs BEFORE he died.
Since his death, I’ve heard music I’d never heard before and some is quite amazing. Nothing beats Billy Jean, however. (Not the words, the music and video.)
Death as a career move.
Good career move.
Case in point, Elvis’s Graceland made 51 million last year, how many years after his death? Can you imagine what Never land could bring in?
MJ finished a promo video for his upcoming concert tour. It was finished just a few weeks ago and in the can and ready to show. How much do you think they can make on that? Millions
top selling albums on Amazon
1. Michael Jackson 25th Anniversary of Thriller ~ Michael Jackson
2. Off the Wall ~ Michael Jackson
3. Bad ~ Michael Jackson
4. Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection ~ Michael Jackson
5. Number Ones ~ Michael Jackson
6. Dangerous ~ Michael Jackson
7. The Essential Michael Jackson ~ Michael Jackson
8. The Ultimate Collection ~ Jackson 5
9. Michael Jackson - Vol. 1-Greatest Hits History ~ Michael Jackson
10. Invincible ~ Michael Jackson
11. Wilco (The Album) ~ Wilco
12. HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I ~ Michael
Hey, it worked for JFK.
A business model with a history of success.
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