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Official Charts Thread For ''Michael''

Sales Figures: Michael Jackson Keeps His Crown & Keri Hilson Gets Knocked Down

The Holdiay sales rush is finally over and with so many crazed shoppers abound almost every artist emerged as a winner. However, no other Urban act won a spot higher on the consumers’ Christmas list than Michael Jackson.

The King of Pop’s ‘Michael’ album remains the only Urban release in the Billboard 200’s top 5, slipping from #3 to #5 with sales of 150k units. This figure represents only a 34% decrease in sales, allowing Jackson to accomplish a narrow lead ahead of Jamie Foxx’s ‘Best Night of My Life’ which debuts at #6 on the lineup with 144k copies sold.

Keyshia Cole enters the top 10 this week at #9 with ‘Calling All Hearts’ selling 128k units. Still, the R&B singer’s call didn’t sway enough hearts to help her to outperform Nicki Minaj and Eminem whose albums sold another 133k (down 36% to #8) and 137k (up 100% to #7) copies, respectively.

Keri Hilson, on the other hand, missed the top 10 completely. While her ‘No Boys Allowed’ sold 102k copies, managing to outsell previously released ‘In A Perfect World’ by over 8k units, it failed to keep up with Rihanna’s ‘Loud’ which grabbed the #10 position. The Bajan’s LP experienced a 33% increase in sales, selling another 111k copies.

There is no sign of Ciara’s ‘Basic Instinct‘ in the top 20. Let us take a minute to backbend in silence as we mourn its passing.

http://thatgrapejuice.net/2010/12/sales-figures-michael-jackson-crown-keri-hilson-knocked/

deano;3161998 said:
Perhaps Sony are thinking; "If the fans don't care enough, and others are actively trying to convince the general public not to buy the album, why should we bother wasting money trying to promote it?"?

Just a thought.
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Exactly.

Funny to see fans attacking Sony. Yes, promotion is a disaster. But we are 'guilty' too. I hope all you are happy now. Michael would be so proud to see his album number three. He loved to be number three...

He worked hard for it.

Congratulations.:D
 
Chart Watch Extra: I Am...The Year's #1 Music Video

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Michael Jackson has three of the year's top 10 videos. This is the second year in a row that Jackson has made a strong showing on the list. On the year-end chart for 2009, he made a clean sweep of the top four positions. Only one other artist in Nielsen SoundScan history has ever had three or more of the year's top 10 music videos. Backstreet Boys had three of the top four in 1999.

Beyonce and Celine Dion each have two of the top 20 music videos for 2010.

The top 20 includes some historic footage: the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, the Rolling Stones on their Exile On Main St. tour in 1972, and Michael Jackson on his Dangerous tour in 1992.

Nine of the videos in the top 20 are by artists who have been chart perennials for 35 years or more: Barbra Streisand, the Beatles, the Stones, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, Rush and Bruce Springsteen.

Here are the top 20 DVD music videos of 2010, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The number after the title is the sales total for the year to date. If the DVD was released prior to 2010, I also show the cumulative total. I also tell you when the act first appeared on The Billboard 200 album chart (just for the heck of it).

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3. Michael Jackson, Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour, 116K. Jackson's video was shot on Oct. 1, 1992, when he was the biggest pop star in the world. It has sold 750,000 copies since its release on DVD in July 2005. It was the #2 video of 2009. Jackson first charted with the Jackson 5 in 1970.

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6. Michael Jackson, Number Ones, 92K. The DVD, which features 15 key Jackson videos, has sold 1,332,000 copies since its release in November 2003. It's the video companion to Jackson's 2003 album Number Ones. This was the #1 music video of 2009, with sales in that year of 558,000 copies.

7. Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson's Vision, 77K. This three-disk set includes all 35 of Jackson's videos (or "short films," as he preferred to call them). Ten of them are on DVD for the first time. The set has been out for five weeks.

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Bonus Facts: Nielsen SoundScan's list of this week's top 50 music videos also indicates how many copies the videos have sold during their entire runs. Seven of the current top 50 have sold more than 500K. Michael Jackson has three of these big sellers. The other four are by classic rock bands. In descending order of sales they are: Eagles' Farewell Tour: Live From Melbourne (1,524,000), Jackson's Number Ones (1,332,000), Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin (1,209,000), Pink Floyd's Pulse (850,000), Jackson's Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour (750,000), Journey's Greatest Hits 1978-1997 (566,000) and Jackson's Video Greatest Hits: HIStory (541,000).

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/ch...usic-video/;_ylt=Ak4mQSJugWtBXNVj_QeV_xoPwiUv
 
Sales positions have remained pretty steady but the next few weeks time will tell really. We cant really judge the success of an album in three weeks.
 
loka said:
as far as i know, there wasn't any official news from HK...since the releasing
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Sony will know, or be able to find out. Trouble is, they're all on their holidays :wink:
 
deano said:
Not surprising at all.

France, as usual, is the country which has had the most 'activity' when it comes to boycotting/demonstrating against something. Nothing new or surprising to me.

You perhaps should look at the 'bigger picture'.
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oh boy :lol: !!! I can assure you I have not seen any strike or demonstration for boycotting "Michael" :lol: !!
no, seriously ... at least Michael has his peak as number 4 in France ; he didn't even reach this place in some countries, so ... :smilerolleyes:
 
VictorMacBernik;3161634 said:
weekly french charts: N°10 not good at all!!
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Could you put a link please - the website Chart in France is not updated since the last week, Michael is still number 4 :scratch: -
 
AllForLove;3162856 said:
Could you put a link please - the website Chart in France is not updated since the last week, Michael is still number 4 :scratch: -
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it's not that bad in france because sales were steady/ More : the rank 7, 8, 9 and 10 were really close (around 30 000)


01 01 03 Mylène Farmer - Bleu Noir
02 03 39 Les Prêtres - Spiritus Dei
03 02 04 The Black Eyed Peas - The Beginning
04 07 18 Yannick Noah - Frontières
05 06 03 Nolwenn Leroy - Bretonne
06 05 10 Shakira - Sale El Sol
07 08 04 Jean-Louis Aubert - Roc' Éclair
08 09 33 Zaz - Zaz
09 10 40 Christophe Maé - On Trace La Route

10 04 03 Michael Jackson - Michael

11 12 07 James Blunt - Some Kind Of Trouble
12 17 14 Seal - VI Commitment
 
flutinggnee said:
The "Michael" campaign in the US has been "third-world" rate, IMO. No posters up in Target or Walmart, etc. etc. No air play....
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Speaking of Walmart. I stopped by today and counted 52 Michael CDs on their shelves. I hope to God they sell them all.

I'll check again next week. *fingers crossed*
 
Holding well in Denmark & Sweden.

DENMARK

Michael

Top 40 Albums

( 17 Dicembre 2010) 4-4-4-

3 Weeks

Hold My Hand

Top 40 Singles

( 3 Dicembre 2010) 3-16-24-13-9-7-

6 Weeks

SWEDEN

Michael

Top 60 Albums

( 17 Dicembre 2010) 1-2-2-

3 Weeks

Hold My Hand

Top 60 Singles

( 26 Novembre 2010) 34-16-31-12-10-8-

6 Weeks

Top 20 Music DVDs

Vision

( 26 Novembre 2010) 5-6-6-2-4-9-

6 Weeks

Live In Bucharest

( 1 Settembre 2005) 3-3-5-2-3-6-5-8-//-16-//-20-//( 24 Novembre 2005)

(RE 27 Aprile 2006) 20-//

(RE 13 Marzo 2008) 15-//

(RE 10 Aprile 2008) 17-//

(RE 21 Agosto 2008) 12-//

(RE 3 Ottobre 2008) 15-//

(RE 13 Marzo 2009) 14-//-//-13-//

(RE 3 Luglio 2009) 2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-5-6-3-2-3-1-4-4-4-5-3-4-2-2-1-1-1-2-2-2-1-2-3-2-8-3-3-3-7-5-5-5-7-7-8-12-11-10-5-6-9-6-
10-10-12-10-10-7-8-8-8-3-4-13-7-8-11-//( 7 Novembre 2010)

(RE 10 Dicembre 2010) 20-15-15-16-

92 Weeks
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http://hitlisten.nu/

http://www.sverigetopplistan.se/index.html
 
n 1 for albums in Sweden is the winner of swedish idol,people have seen him on tv for weeks
n 1 for singles was seen in a popular tvprogram.
 
Sony and the Estate need to be held responsible for the lack of success of this album here in the USA. If only they had listen to the fans over the controversy of the vocals in question, and done the right thing and replaced them.

That along with the lack of promotion is what is going to make this album by far the biggest flop of MJ's legacy....moreso then Invincible.
 
Prince Of Pop said:
That along with the lack of promotion is what is going to make this album by far the biggest flop of MJ's legacy....moreso then Invincible.
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Stop with the dramactics. 98% of the artists out there would kill to have MJ's flops. Unless you're 12 years old, I don't get how you would use the word flop to describe MJ's sales.
 
AngieJ said:
Stop with the dramactics. 98% of the artists out there would kill to have MJ's flops. Unless you're 12 years old, I don't get how you would use the word flop to describe MJ's sales.
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Not being dramatic, just stating a fact. The album didn't even debut at number 1. It got beat by a computer backed studio artist (Taylor Swift) and a house wife (Susan Boyle). This week it drops 2 spots by being beat by said "artists", and 2 f*cking Xmas albums.

Also, the lack of promotion has not helped at all. I have not seen 1 TV ad, no advertising in stores, I haven't heard Hold My Hand on radio, and I have yet to see the album in stores. I had to order my copy online. That's BS!

I'll be amazed if this album can sell a couple million here in the states because right now, it's not doing shit
 
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