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Here are some achievements/records MJ has set since his death;
Jackson is the first artist in Nielsen/SoundScan history to have four albums in the year-end top 20.
With "Number Ones" ranking #3 on YTD list, it would be the highest year-end ranking for an album by an artist who had died(2Pac's All Eyez On Me was the #6 album of 1996. The Notorious B.I.G.'s Life After Death was the #6 seller of 1997).
Number Ones, which was released in 2003, will also become the first catalog album to make the year-end top 10 in Nielsen/SoundScan history.
Following his passing June 25, Jackson commands the top nine positions on Top Pop Catalog Albums. His solo sets rank at Nos. 1-4 and 6-9, and a Jackson 5 compilation bows at No. 5. Jackson is the first artist to lock down the top four positions on the survey.
He placed a record 21 entries on the 75-position Digital Songs chart (plus an additional four with his siblings).
With "This Is It" Jackson ties for second-most weeks on top of the Billboard 200 among solo males. Elvis Presley leads with 67 frames in charge, followed by Garth Brooks and now Jackson, each with 51. And if you add 6-weeks(which charted #1 as a catalog album) of "Number Ones" he would have had 57-weeks instead of 51-weeks.
Thriller had total of 89 weeks in the top 10 (or what would be the top 10 if Billboard allowed catalog albums in the top 10). This would push Thriller ahead of Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A., which had 84 weeks in the top 10 in 1984-1985.
Thriller is the longest-reigning(37 #1 weeks) No. 1 by a non-soundtrack set ("West Side Story" led for 54 frames) in the chart's 53-year history.
MJ had six of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. for the second week in a row. Jackson's incredible showing breaks a record that had stood for 43 years, since April 1966 when Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass put four albums in the top 10.
Number Ones sold 339,000 and racked up the biggest weekly sales total in Nielsen/SoundScan history for a catalog album (excluding Christmas albums). Jackson also held the old record, which he set in February 2008, when Thriller 25 sold 166,000 copies in its first week.
Thriller is the only the second catalog album (again, excluding Christmas albums) to top the 100,000 sales mark more than once since 1992. It follows the Grease soundtrack which topped the 100,000 mark twice. So far Thriller has topped 100,000 mark in 5 times.
Jackson became only the 13th artist in Billboard chart history to have the best-selling album in the U.S. posthumously.
With #1's topping the chart in June 28th.,it marks the first time in Nielsen/SoundScan history (which dates to 1991) that the #1 Catalog album has outsold the #1 current album.
He became the first artist to sell more than 1 million song downloads in one week. He far exceeded that total, running up a tally of 2.6 million.
Jackson had a record 50 songs on the top 200 Hot Digital Songs chart.
Jackson had a record 10 of the top 10 albums on the Top Catalog Albums chart (again, this counts a Jackson 5 album.) The old record of five of the top 10 was held jointly by the Beatles and AC/DC.
Jackson had a record six of the top 10 albums on the Digital Albums chart, including the entire top four.
Number Ones, first released in 2003, sold 108,000 copies on week endingJune 28th. The two-CD The Essential Michael Jackson, first released in 2005, sold 102,000 copies. Thriller, first released in 1982, sold 101,000. It's the first time since at least 1992 that one artist has topped the 100,000 mark with three albums in the same week. Even Garth Brooks at his peak didn't do that.
In any event, this week marks the first time that any one act has had the three best-selling albums in the U.S. since at least 1963. The closest for this record are the Beatles, on May 2, 1964, when The Beatles' Second Album was #1, Meet The Beatles! was #2 and Introducing...The Beatles was #4.
Jackson became the only solo artist to post top 10 titles on the Hot 100 in each of the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s (and that's not including the 17-8 rise of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" on the last Hot 100 of the '60s, dated Dec. 27, 1969). Aerosmith is the only other act to collect top 10s in each decade since the '70s.
Jackson is only the fifth music star in the last 25 years to star in a movie that came in #1 at the box-office and also spawned a #1 soundtrack (on which the star was featured).
With 14 songs inside the top 40 singles chart, 15 places inside the digital top 40, seven music DVDs within the DVD music chart top 20 and with the singer occupying the top three on the ARIA albums chart, he becomes the first singer in history to do so.It's the first time in Australian chart history that a single act has occupied the top three positions.
Sources: Billboard, Mr. Paul Grein & etc..
Jackson is the first artist in Nielsen/SoundScan history to have four albums in the year-end top 20.
With "Number Ones" ranking #3 on YTD list, it would be the highest year-end ranking for an album by an artist who had died(2Pac's All Eyez On Me was the #6 album of 1996. The Notorious B.I.G.'s Life After Death was the #6 seller of 1997).
Number Ones, which was released in 2003, will also become the first catalog album to make the year-end top 10 in Nielsen/SoundScan history.
Following his passing June 25, Jackson commands the top nine positions on Top Pop Catalog Albums. His solo sets rank at Nos. 1-4 and 6-9, and a Jackson 5 compilation bows at No. 5. Jackson is the first artist to lock down the top four positions on the survey.
He placed a record 21 entries on the 75-position Digital Songs chart (plus an additional four with his siblings).
With "This Is It" Jackson ties for second-most weeks on top of the Billboard 200 among solo males. Elvis Presley leads with 67 frames in charge, followed by Garth Brooks and now Jackson, each with 51. And if you add 6-weeks(which charted #1 as a catalog album) of "Number Ones" he would have had 57-weeks instead of 51-weeks.
Thriller had total of 89 weeks in the top 10 (or what would be the top 10 if Billboard allowed catalog albums in the top 10). This would push Thriller ahead of Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A., which had 84 weeks in the top 10 in 1984-1985.
Thriller is the longest-reigning(37 #1 weeks) No. 1 by a non-soundtrack set ("West Side Story" led for 54 frames) in the chart's 53-year history.
MJ had six of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. for the second week in a row. Jackson's incredible showing breaks a record that had stood for 43 years, since April 1966 when Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass put four albums in the top 10.
Number Ones sold 339,000 and racked up the biggest weekly sales total in Nielsen/SoundScan history for a catalog album (excluding Christmas albums). Jackson also held the old record, which he set in February 2008, when Thriller 25 sold 166,000 copies in its first week.
Thriller is the only the second catalog album (again, excluding Christmas albums) to top the 100,000 sales mark more than once since 1992. It follows the Grease soundtrack which topped the 100,000 mark twice. So far Thriller has topped 100,000 mark in 5 times.
Jackson became only the 13th artist in Billboard chart history to have the best-selling album in the U.S. posthumously.
With #1's topping the chart in June 28th.,it marks the first time in Nielsen/SoundScan history (which dates to 1991) that the #1 Catalog album has outsold the #1 current album.
He became the first artist to sell more than 1 million song downloads in one week. He far exceeded that total, running up a tally of 2.6 million.
Jackson had a record 50 songs on the top 200 Hot Digital Songs chart.
Jackson had a record 10 of the top 10 albums on the Top Catalog Albums chart (again, this counts a Jackson 5 album.) The old record of five of the top 10 was held jointly by the Beatles and AC/DC.
Jackson had a record six of the top 10 albums on the Digital Albums chart, including the entire top four.
Number Ones, first released in 2003, sold 108,000 copies on week endingJune 28th. The two-CD The Essential Michael Jackson, first released in 2005, sold 102,000 copies. Thriller, first released in 1982, sold 101,000. It's the first time since at least 1992 that one artist has topped the 100,000 mark with three albums in the same week. Even Garth Brooks at his peak didn't do that.
In any event, this week marks the first time that any one act has had the three best-selling albums in the U.S. since at least 1963. The closest for this record are the Beatles, on May 2, 1964, when The Beatles' Second Album was #1, Meet The Beatles! was #2 and Introducing...The Beatles was #4.
Jackson became the only solo artist to post top 10 titles on the Hot 100 in each of the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s (and that's not including the 17-8 rise of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" on the last Hot 100 of the '60s, dated Dec. 27, 1969). Aerosmith is the only other act to collect top 10s in each decade since the '70s.
Jackson is only the fifth music star in the last 25 years to star in a movie that came in #1 at the box-office and also spawned a #1 soundtrack (on which the star was featured).
With 14 songs inside the top 40 singles chart, 15 places inside the digital top 40, seven music DVDs within the DVD music chart top 20 and with the singer occupying the top three on the ARIA albums chart, he becomes the first singer in history to do so.It's the first time in Australian chart history that a single act has occupied the top three positions.
Sources: Billboard, Mr. Paul Grein & etc..
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