michael jackson - king of pop
2nd week number one in austria.
http://charts.orf.at/oe3/longplay/2008/woche37/
FYI: in the week of his birthday, a famous radio station played his songs every morning and gave away a king of pop ipod every day and on his b-day there was a 2 hour special from 8 pm to 10pm about michael jackson
1 day before MJs birthday, there was a movie theatre screening in vienna's biggest cinema, a lot of people attended. at MJs birthday, local radio stations played his songs.
as a side note, as we in austria also receive german tv-stations, they even played on mtv germany (yes, those full of hate-mtv people) a countdown of MJs best videos and of course, VIVA (mtv rival music tv station and long time fans of MJ) did so too.
plus there was a TV-special in the austrian tv, so enough promotion to guarantee MJ would enter at #1 two weeks ago and still is at #1 the second week in a row.
MJ only had 1 album so far that was at number 1, which was "bad", but i dont know if it entered at one or only was #1 for 1 week...because all his other albums entered at #2 or worse in austria. but "king of pop" seems to be a huge success for him in austria, 2 weeks #1 is just so great.
and of course, all haters (there are the usual ones in austria too) suddenly keep their mouths shut. ironically, now there's no news about michael being number one, or michael entering the charts at #1 two weeks ago. not even sony austria sent out a press release like they did when thriller 25 entered the charts at #5, which they called spectacular.
i dont really understand the world media's perception of MJ, and even sony's.
