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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Jackson&#39;s &quot;Dirty Diana&quot; has now surpassed 100 million views on YouTube.</p>&mdash; chart data (@chartdata) <a href="https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1252300672738840577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Billboard 200 - April 18, 2020

The Essential Michael Jackson: 124(+14) ; 320 weeks
Thriller: 158(+26) ; 414 weeks

Top Album Sales

Thriller: 52(+14) ; 195 weeks

Catalog Albums

The Essential Michael Jackson: 25(+5) ; 369 weeks
Thriller: (RE) ; 456 weeks

Vinyl Albums

Thriller: 11(+7) ; 176 weeks
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UK Charts - Top 100 Albums <br>Week Ending 23 April<br><br>NUMBER ONES spends another week in the Top 40 at #38.<br><br>Chart Run in 2020 ;<br>RE 2 January ; 71-70-69-69-66-68-66-62-61-58-62-61-49-40-37-33-38-<br><br>Sales ~1,950 (#36 sold 2,085 / #50 1,729) <a href="https://t.co/cJRPB632Zv">pic.twitter.com/cJRPB632Zv</a></p>&mdash; MICHAEL JACKSON Sales-Charts-Statistics (@Pierpinto) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pierpinto/status/1253735015847993345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Jackson&#39;s &#39;Number Ones&#39; has now spent 440 weeks on the UK Official Albums Chart Top 100.<br><br>It remains the longest charting album released this century.</p>&mdash; Michael Jackson Charts (@MJJCharts) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJCharts/status/1253783269574881280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
I'd like to hear more about that stat!

Number Ones is the longest charting 21st century album in the UK?
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Jackson&#39;s &quot;Don&#39;t Stop &#39;Til You Get Enough&quot; has now surpassed 200 million streams on Spotify.</p>&mdash; Michael Jackson Charts (@MJJCharts) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJCharts/status/1254529939208122368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Billboard 200 - April 25, 2020

The Essential Michael Jackson: 122(+2) ; 321 weeks
Thriller: 153(+5) ; 415 weeks

Top Album Sales

Thriller: 59(-7) ; 196 weeks

Catalog Albums

The Essential Michael Jackson: 24(+1) ; 370 weeks
Thriller: 41(+4) ; 457 weeks

Vinyl Albums

Thriller: 12(-1) ; 177 weeks
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Jackson&#39;s &#39;Off the Wall&#39; has now surpassed 500 million streams on Spotify (album).</p>&mdash; Michael Jackson Charts (@MJJCharts) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJCharts/status/1255247920770822144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Top 5 most streamed Michael Jackson albums on Spotify:<br><br>#1 - Thriller<br>#2 - Bad<br>#3 - Off the Wall<br>#4 - Dangerous<br>#5 - XSCAPE</p>&mdash; Michael Jackson Charts (@MJJCharts) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJCharts/status/1255245403957714945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Does this mean just adding up every stream of a song on an album? 500 million isn't that much, DSTYGE and rock with you are responsible for almost 400 million streams by themselves.
I take it for HIStory the greatest hits disc isn't counted otherwise it would surely be tops
 
JichaelMackson said:
Does this mean just adding up every stream of a song on an album? 500 million isn't that much, DSTYGE and rock with you are responsible for almost 400 million streams by themselves.
I take it for HIStory the greatest hits disc isn't counted otherwise it would surely be tops
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500 million isn't that much for a 1970s album? Lol!

According to following list, which was done is November 2018, Off The Wall was the 22nd most streamed album of the 1970s. I suspect it has gone up since.

https://chartmasters.org/2018/11/38-must-buy-70s-albums/
 
Nite Line said:
500 million isn't that much for a 1970s album? Lol!

According to following list, which was done is November 2018, Off The Wall was the 22nd most streamed album of the 1970s. I suspect it has gone up since.

https://chartmasters.org/2018/11/38-must-buy-70s-albums/
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Actually that list enhances my opinion imo. While Off the wall is often cited by respected press to be among the 100 greatest albums of all time I now find out that 21 albums of the 70s have actually had more streams, this includes albums that are not quite classics imo. F.e. Lynyrd Skynyrd twice and Queen's Jazz.
If I was asked before knowing this I would have thought OTW to be in the top 10 seventies albums.

Either way I think this isn't a very representative way of finding out which albums are popular. If you have one superhit you're bound to be very high. Thriller for example would be above off the wall based on Billie Jeans streams alone.
 
JichaelMackson said:
Actually that list enhances my opinion imo. While Off the wall is often cited by respected press to be among the 100 greatest albums of all time I now find out that 21 albums of the 70s have actually had more streams, this includes albums that are not quite classics imo. F.e. Lynyrd Skynyrd twice and Queen's Jazz.
If I was asked before knowing this I would have thought OTW to be in the top 10 seventies albums.

Either way I think this isn't a very representative way of finding out which albums are popular. If you have one superhit you're bound to be very high. Thriller for example would be above off the wall based on Billie Jeans streams alone.
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This list only shows the 70s albums with the most streams on spotify. This doesn't necessarily mean the most popular albums so you are right in saying that an album with a superhit like Journey's Don't Stop Believing or Toto's Africa will normally have higher streams.

Since you mentioned Thriller, below is a list of the most streamed 80s albums from the same website. This list is from November 2018, so it isn't up to date.

https://chartmasters.org/2018/11/43-classic-lps-of-the-80s/
 
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This happen yesterday.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Eddie <a href="https://twitter.com/VanHalen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VanHalen</a> topped the charts with Michael Jackson&#39;s &#39;Beat It&#39; on this date in 1983: <a href="https://t.co/eDpFeThxMj">https://t.co/eDpFeThxMj</a></p>&mdash; UltimateClassicRock (@UltClassicRock) <a href="https://twitter.com/UltClassicRock/status/1255864734630375426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Re: the 70s albums. For clarification, does the album itself need to be selected and played by the person streaming? Ie. if someone plays Don't Stop Til You Get Enough from Number Ones, does it count?

I would imagine that the ton of greatest hits sets that exist for MJ dilute his overall individual album streams.
 
UK Top 100 Albums Chart

Number Ones: 35 (+3) ; 441 weeks

UK Top 50 Music Video Chart

Moonwalker: 29(+5) ; 460 weeks
 
ChrisC said:
Re: the 70s albums. For clarification, does the album itself need to be selected and played by the person streaming? Ie. if someone plays Don't Stop Til You Get Enough from Number Ones, does it count?

I would imagine that the ton of greatest hits sets that exist for MJ dilute his overall individual album streams.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I do believe that if a version of a song that is released on an album is then released on a greatest hits album, that counts towards the album steams, even if the song is played from the greatest hits album and not the actual studio album that it was initially released on.
 
Nite Line said:
I'm not entirely sure, but I do believe that if a version of a song that is released on an album is then released on a greatest hits album, that counts towards the album steams, even if the song is played from the greatest hits album and not the actual studio album that it was initially released on.
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It's just, for talkings sake, I remember the version of Don't Stop on Number Ones being tagged with (2003 edit) or something along those lines. Obviously it's not the exact same track that exists on Off The Wall - neither in name nor length.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#39;Thriller&#39; has now sold over 100,000 units in the US in 2020 alone (album).</p>&mdash; chart data (@chartdata) <a href="https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1256416872632811520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

100,000 units in just 4 months. Wow amazing!

Given that Thriller normally sells a lot more during the Halloween period, I can easily see Thriller selling 300,000 units in US during 2020.
 
I often wonder what Dangerous and HIStory sell these days. It's kind of a shame that all the compilation albums take away sales of regular studio albums
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Jackson's &quot;Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough&quot; has now surpassed &quot;Love Never Felt So Good&quot; on Spotify.<br><br>It's now the 6th most streamed Michael Jackson track on Spotify (not including features).</p>&mdash; Michael Jackson Charts (@MJJCharts) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJCharts/status/1256674823993831424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Janet's fans got Control back into the top 10, how have we not co-ordinated ourselves to do that for Michael?
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&#39;Bad&#39; is now the Michael Jackson album with the most songs above 100 million streams on Spotify (5).</p>&mdash; Michael Jackson Charts (@MJJCharts) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJCharts/status/1257407148105043974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Jackson&#39;s &quot;Dirty Diana&quot; has now surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify.</p>&mdash; Michael Jackson Charts (@MJJCharts) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJCharts/status/1257399831322132480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Billboard 200 - May 9, 2020

The Essential Michael Jackson: 118(+4) ; 322 weeks
Thriller: 149(+4) ; 416 weeks

Top Album Sales

Thriller: 41(+18) ; 197 weeks

Catalog Albums

The Essential Michael Jackson: 23(+1) ; 371 weeks
Thriller: 42(-1) ; 458 weeks

Vinyl Albums

Thriller: 11(+1) ; 178 weeks
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Michael Jackson&#39;s &#39;Thriller&#39; has now spent 8 years on the Billboard 200.</p>&mdash; Michael Jackson Charts (@MJJCharts) <a href="https://twitter.com/MJJCharts/status/1257769536553652224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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