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What actually is the apple music chart? How does it work? Why is called apple?
It’s just the Apple Music app. Lots of iPhone users have it. I did a free trial just so I could follow Michael on the charts there. I know, I’m a freak lol. Anyway, it’s just an alternative to Spotify and other streaming appsWhat actually is the apple music chart? How does it work? Why is called apple?
Well from what I can tell, Spotify doesn’t have genre charts. So on Apple I’m looking at the Pop charts, specifically. I did see on Spotify that it was charting on the viral songs, which was cool. I think I may have posted about that somewhere above.Ok, I guess it is a lot smaller than spotify then. I haven’t really noticed an impact on spotify
At the moment, Billie Jean is 5X Platinum and Thriller is 6X Platinum. But if Rock With You & Don't Stop Til You Get Enough are now 5X Platinum, then, yes, Billie Jean and Thriller should be diamond or close to it.Billie Jean and Thriller must be diamond
Me tooThen I'm fully expecting an update in the coming weeks
This is wonderful!Number Ones is 10X Platinum in the UK for surpassing units sold of 3 million. Michael becomes the only artist to have 3 or more albums to have sold more than 3 million copies in the UK.
Michael's highest albums certification in the UK:
Thriller - 15X Platinum. Last certified in November 2021.
Bad - 14X Platinum. Last certified in November 2021.
Number Ones - 10X Platinum.
Dangerous - 6X Platinum. Last certified way back in October 1993, so should probably be 7X Platinum.
History - 4X Platinum. Last certified way back in February 1996, so should probably be 5X Platinum.
The Essential - 4X Platinum. Last certified in April 2018.
As far as I know in the UK, albums and songs released post 1994 are automatically certified when they reach the threshold. But for "older" albums like Dangerous, the record labels probably have to ask for the updated certification.This is wonderful!
Does anyone know how albums get certified? It seems crazy to me that both Dangerous and HIStory haven't been recertified since, essentially, their release. I assume this is something the estate has to do? It makes me wonder if/when they do anniversary editions for either album they will take that time to do it to help promote the albums.
oh interesting! it does feel like something that just be automatically done. But I guess that would be a pretty overwhelming ask with all the albums out there, so I suppose it makes sense that the estate/record label would have to pursue that.As far as I know in the UK, albums and songs released post 1994 are automatically certified when they reach the threshold. But for "older" albums like Dangerous, the record labels probably have to ask for the updated certification.
Yesssssssssss!!!!!!!!Number Ones is 10X Platinum in the UK for surpassing units sold of 3 million. Michael becomes the only artist to have 3 or more albums to have sold more than 3 million copies in the UK.
Michael's highest albums certification in the UK:
Thriller - 15X Platinum. Last certified in November 2021.
Bad - 14X Platinum. Last certified in November 2021.
Number Ones - 10X Platinum.
Dangerous - 6X Platinum. Last certified way back in October 1993, so should probably be 7X Platinum.
History - 4X Platinum. Last certified way back in February 1996, so should probably be 5X Platinum.
The Essential - 4X Platinum. Last certified in April 2018.
Spot on, Nite Line. It's just over 6 weeks since you posted this. Wow.Michael Jackson's Number Ones has sold 2,984,400 copies in the UK. It needs to sell another 15,600 copies to reach 3m total sales and be certified 10X platinum in the UK. Given that it sells 2,500 copies a week on average, it will probably reach that milestone in the next 6-7 weeks.
Platinum for albums in the UK is 300,000 and not a million. I think it must have sold units of 300,000 since 1994.The likes of dangerous probably haven’t sold a million copies since 1994, it didn’t even sell good for a long period after Michael died
Has Off The Wall been certified platinum in the UK?Number Ones is 10X Platinum in the UK for surpassing units sold of 3 million. Michael becomes the only artist to have 3 or more albums to have sold more than 3 million copies in the UK.
Michael's highest albums certification in the UK:
Thriller - 15X Platinum. Last certified in November 2021.
Bad - 14X Platinum. Last certified in November 2021.
Number Ones - 10X Platinum.
Dangerous - 6X Platinum. Last certified way back in October 1993, so should probably be 7X Platinum.
History - 4X Platinum. Last certified way back in February 1996, so should probably be 5X Platinum.
The Essential - 4X Platinum. Last certified in April 2018.
Sorry, I completely forgot about Off The Wall.Has Off The Wall been certified platinum in the UK?
Did some more Spotify research
MJ is the 69th most streamed artist in the history of Spotify closing in on 10 billion streams. Apparently there are 329 MJ tracks available on Spotify.
He has 1 song of over a billion streams, 21 songs of over 100 million streams, 91 songs of over 10 million streams and 233 songs of over 1 million streams.
Queen, The Beatles, Linkin Park, Eminem and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are all above MJ in the ranking. I named these as they were also recording when MJ was still recording. The rest of the 100 is made up of artists post Invincible. It goes to show how fast and brutal the musical landscape changes. You’d be very lucky if you stay relevant for even a few years…
Michael’s top streaming albums top 6 is:
nr 1 thriller 25 with almost 2 million streams per day. Nr 137 in the overall chart of most streamed albums
nr 2 bad 25 with just over 1 million streams a day. Nr 340 overall chart
nr 3 off the wall just over 500 000 streams a day. Nr 989 overall chart
nr 4 dangerous with over 400 000 streams a day. Nr 1146 overall chart
nr 5 Diana Ross presents the J5 over 300 000 streams a day. Nr 1180 overall chart
nr 6 xscape with over 200 000 streams a day. Nr 1487 overall chart
Furthermore MJ is the nr 43 most followed artist on spotify with 23 million plus followers. Queen is at nr 13 ( biopic impact), beatles at nr 44. Michael has adaily gain of 11000 + followers, this rate puts him at nr 37 for fastest growing artists on Spotify. Queen is at nr 22 in this chart with 19000 new fans a day.
Interesting note Elvis Presley is at nr 86 with about 4000 gains a day. Is this an early biopic effect?
All of these numbers will be hugely interesting to follow in the coming years starting with thriller 40. At least I find it interesting
I think this is a really important point. This year I watched the Billboards solely for the Maxwell tribute to MJ and what was interesting is they added a category of awards for artists whose songs charted because they blew up on TikTok. Largely unsigned artists. When I look at top streaming, especially, it's very obvious that popularity comes and goes and most of the people on there won't be relevant in a couple months or years. To put it in perspective, I love to check out the Billboard Hot 100 artists (MJ has been in there every time I have looked this year, which is typically weekly). But Beyonce has barely ever been on it, if at all. Why? She hasn't released anything in awhile. However, she's due to release something next month, so I fully expect her streaming to explode.@staywild23
There is a lot to analyze behind the numbers, I’m still trying to wrap my head around it all. Not all numbers are actually relevant. Some completely unknown artists rack up huge numbers because one of their songs shows up in hugely popular playlists, while these artists have barely a few 1000 followers.
I basically am not sure if the MJ statistics are impressive or not.
He also had a biopic come out a couple years ago! It was successful and nominated for some awards (may have won some, I have no idea). I got really into Elton John in middle/high school because of "Elton John" night on American Idol lol. You never know where these people's music is being featured for the youth to enjoy lol.Another artist I forgot to highlight is Elton John who is in the weekly charts at nr 24 as most popular artist. He is currently the best scoring “old“ artist. I have no idea where this success comes from? Is he featured on a track with a hot current artist or so?
The website I take this from is bursting with info and stats, analyzing it all is pretty tough, the site is also a bitch to navigate. What is clear though is that Thriller is here to stay but really lots of MJs streaming succes comes from that album so it might put overall numbers in perspective.