Xscape chart positions. (incl. singles)

[JEMFTV]

^^Indeed

 

[HIStory]

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SINGLES OF 2014

1. "Happy" Pharrell Williams - 11,223,000
2. "Dark Horse" Katy Perry ft. Juicy J - 5,987,000
3. "All Of Me" John Legend - 5,345,000
4. "Timber" Pitbull ft. Ke$ha - 5,206,000
5. "Counting Stars" OneRepublic - 4,174,000
6. "Talk Dirty" Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz - 3,908,000
7. "Hey Brother" Avicii - 3,688,000
8. "Let It Go" Idina Menzel - 3,398,000
9. "The Monster" Eminem ft. Rihanna - 3,351,000
10. "Rather Be" Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne - 3,261,000
11. "Say Something" A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera - 3,159,000
12. "Story of My Life" One Direction - 2,897,000
13. "Royals" Lorde - 2,671,000
14. "Demons" Imagine Dragons - 2,624,000
15. "Team" Lorde - 2,578,000
16. "Wake Me Up" Avicii - 2,577,000
17. "The Man" Aloe Blacc - 2,570,000
18. "Pompeii" Bastille - 2,506,000
19. "Can't Remember to Forget You" Shakira ft. Rihanna - 2,142,000
20. "Let Her Go" Passenger - 2,125,000
21. "Fancy" Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX - 2,086,000
22. "Summer" Calvin Harris - 1,954,000
23. "Problem" Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea - 1,906,000
24. "Drunk In Love" Beyonce ft. Jay-Z - 1,871,000
25. "Roar" Katy Perry - 1,841,000
26. "Magic" Coldplay - 1,839,000
27. "Best Day of My Life" American Authors - 1,831,000
28. "Turn Down For What" DJ Snake ft. Lil Jon - 1,670,000
29. "Burn" Ellie Goulding - 1,662,000
30. "Waves" (Robin Schulz Remix) Mr. Probz - 1,635,000
31. "Animals" Martin Garrix - 1,625,000
32. "Sing" Ed Sheeran - 1,600,000
33. "Not A Bad Thing" Justin Timberlake - 1,395,000
34. "Labrador Retriever" RKB 48 - 1,219,000
35. "Do What You Want" Lady GaGa ft. R.Kelly - 1,199,000
36. "Am I Wrong" - Nico & Vinz - 1,139,000
37. "Love Never Felt Like That" Michael Jackson ft. Justin Timberlake - 1,106,000
38. "Wrecking Ball" Miley Cyrus - 1,085,000
39. "She Looks So Perfect" 5 Seconds of Summer - 1,060,000
40. "Addicted To You" Avicii - 1,054,000

 

[Dorian]

MediaTraffic

#10, Love Never Felt So Good - Michael Jackson & Justin Timberlake (last week 10)
MJJ / Epic - 158.000

 

[HIStory]

The Jackson/Timberlake version of Love Never Felt So Good has turned into a cross-format radio hit; it's on USA TODAY's adult contemporary, hot adult contemporary, urban adult contemporary and top 40 charts. The song was certified gold this week, with 514,000 downloads sold.

Album Xscape has sold 309,000 copies since its release May 13, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and it returned to the top 10 of the Billboard albums chart this week.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...-never-felt-so-good-video-premiere/10884299//

Love Never Felt So Good is certified Gold.

 

[Dorian]

#4. Michael Jackson - Xscape (last week 5)
MJJ / Epic - 93.000

Total copies sold: 923.000

 

[HIStory]

BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF 2014

1. "Frozen" OST - 4,777,000
2. "Beyoncé" Beyoncé - 1,922,000
3. "Ghost Stories" Coldplay - 1,724,000
4. "Pure Heroine" Lorde - 1,410,000
5. "Midnight Memories" One Direction - 1,399,000
6. "GIRL" Pharrell Williams - 1,399,000
7. "Prism" Katy Perry - 1,226,000
8. "The Marshall Matters LP 2" Eminem - 1,085,000
9. "Night Visions" Imagine Dragons - 1,081,000
10. "Tsugi No Ashiato" AKB 48 - 1,020,000

11. "Unorthodox Jukebox" Bruno Mars - 929,000
12. "Xscape" Michael Jackson - 923,000
13. "Racine Carrée" Stormae - 897,000
14. "True" Avicii - 841,000
15. "AM" Arctic Monkeys - 798,000
16. "High Hopes" Bruce Springsteen - 757,000
17. "Bad Blood" Bastille - 667,000
18. "Random Access Memories" Daft Punk - 627,000
19. "Bangerz" Miley Cyrus - 591,000
20. "Swing Both Ways" Robbie Williams - 580,000

21. "Shakira" Shakira - 579,000
22. "Turn Blue" The Black Keys - 544,000
23. "Farbenspiel" Helene Fischer - 512,000
24. "Artpop" Lady Gaga - 511,000
25. "Love In the Future" John Legend - 499,000
26. "The Outsiders" Eric Church - 495,000
27. "If You Wait" London Grammar - 438,000
28. "Caustic Love" Paolo Nutini - 437,000
29. "Overdose" Exo - 411,000
30. "Halcyon Days" Ellie Goulding - 404,000

31. "Morning Phase" Beck - 377,000
32. "Just As I Am" Brantley Gilbert - 375,000
33. "The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2" Justin Timberlake - 370,000
34. "Native" OneRepublic - 349,000
35. "Out Among the Stars" Johnny Cash - 330,000
36. "Moon Landing" James Blunt - 327,000
37. "Symphonica" George Michael - 324,000
38. "Ballada" Naime Amuro - 322,000
39. "Nothing Was The Same" Drake - 314,000
40. "Mastermind" Rick Ross - 290,000

Source: United World Chart
- Numbers indicate sales between 1.1.2014. and 06.19.2014.
- The numbers are solely based on presence of the albums on UWC weekly top 40.

 

[Snow White luvs Peter Pan]

I hope Xscape can reach the million copies in one or two weeks.

I don't understand what's the extraordinary with Frozen either. Its most famous song is a pain in the butt!

 

[KOPV]

I might get flack for this but the single nor album is a smash like some are trying to make it sound like.. It's a great album with very mediocre success an low success for who's album it is... This is in the US anyway

 

[OnirMJ]

I might get flack for this but the single nor album is a smash like some are trying to make it sound like.. It's a great album with very mediocre success an low success for who's album it is... This is in the US anyway

You need to understand few things:

1. It's a posthumous album
2. People don't buy albums as they used to (look Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, 50 Cent - all major names, alive and sold less than Michael)
3. Michael is not here to promote it so ways of promoting it are very limited, although promotion could be better, there is absolutely nothing for 4 weeks now!
4. Michael has a lot of enemies (Roger Friedman, Diane Diamond, Wade Robson and the other guy...) who spread their hate everytime something good comes out
5. Michael has a lot of ex-friends turned haters like Karen Faye, Jennifer Batten.. and others who have their followers for some reason
6. Michael has some very unsupportive and jelous family members like Jermaine Jackson and they have some influence on people
7. There is a huge amount of fans who are boycotting without any reason (Sony hate, fake will...)
8. There is a huge amount of fans who are boycotting with some reason (for instance, not buying anything until they apologize and remove fake songs from MJ's discography)
9. There are regular people who for some reason think that it's disrespectful to release material that the artist didn't release himself.

And with all that MJ sold 1 MIL copies of Xscape. I would call it a big success.

 

[KOPV]

You need to understand few things:

1. It's a posthumous album
2. People don't buy albums as they used to (look Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, 50 Cent - all major names, alive and sold less than Michael)
3. Michael is not here to promote it so ways of promoting it are very limited, although promotion could be better, there is absolutely nothing for 4 weeks now!
4. Michael has a lot of enemies (Roger Friedman, Diane Diamond, Wade Robson and the other guy...) who spread their hate everytime something good comes out
5. Michael has a lot of ex-friends turned haters like Karen Faye, Jennifer Batten.. and others who have their followers for some reason
6. Michael has some very unsupportive and jelous family members like Jermaine Jackson and they have some influence on people
7. There is a huge amount of fans who are boycotting without any reason (Sony hate, fake will...)
8. There is a huge amount of fans who are boycotting with some reason (for instance, not buying anything until they apologize and remove fake songs from MJ's discography)
9. There are regular people who for some reason think that it's disrespectful to release material that the artist didn't release himself.

And with all that MJ sold 1 MIL copies of Xscape. I would call it a big success.

heres a few things for you to understand...

1. "People do buy albums" is all in retrospect to other albums... If you compare to other albums released it's medeocre.. Simple!
2. Whatever the reason which took up most of examples on your list... It still didn't sell all that well.
I'm not here saying why it didn't.. I'm just saying it didn't...

This album has potential to sell much more than it has been, so your list can be 2 pages but that doesn't change anything... It is sad to think the 'Michael' hitch was also a posthumous album sell more than this..

 

[Snow White luvs Peter Pan]

Besides the reasons Onir listed, piracy has taken over the music industry among the other ones. Look at the numbers respect77 posted on the best selling albums this year, most of them have sold 1 million + copies. Didn't Bruno Mars release his record last year or early 2014? Xscape is about to surpass it even though Bruno can promote it himself because he's alive. Shakira is supposedly huge right now and Xscape already surpassed her album with 400,000 copies.

Performers can't even sell 10 million copies nowadays. Well, Adele was the exception, 3 years ago. If Xscape can surpass MICHAEL, I'll consider it a success.

 

[serendipity]

heres a few things for you to understand...

1. "People do buy albums" is all in retrospect to other albums... If you compare to other albums released it's medeocre.. Simple!
2. Whatever the reason which took up most of examples on your list... It still didn't sell all that well.
I'm not here saying why it didn't.. I'm just saying it didn't...

This album has potential to sell much more than it has been, so your list can be 2 pages but that doesn't change anything... It is sad to think the 'Michael' hitch was also a posthumous album sell more than this..

Really? Have you seen what are the sales this year before you speak? Sales change for the worse with each year. Michael was released 4 yrs ago when sales were better, AND around Xmas when sales are higher.

However in its 5th week it was nowhere near the top 10 because sales plummeted.

Xscape has legs and has spawned a worldwide hit, which can't be said about Michael. THAT is a big success that any living hot artist would kill for.

BTW Michael has sold 540k in the US as of last month. Xscape would likely top that. It's already sold 309k for five weeks.

Even the media isn't calling this album's success mediocre (Friedman doesn't count), because the facts show differently.

 

[HIStory]

I might get flack for this but the single nor album is a smash like some are trying to make it sound like.. It's a great album with very mediocre success an low success for who's album it is... This is in the US anyway

It's the 12th best selling album of the year so far. I think that's pretty good from a posthumus album. No one said it was a "smash hit", but you also have to keep your expectations realistic when you talk about a posthumus album with formerly unreleased material. And when you compare it to the Michael album it just shows you do not really follow the music market these days and how much record sales have gone down even since 2010, plus you do not consider such important elements as the fact that the Michael album was released on the Christmas market which is always better than sales around other times of the year.

 

[Bubs]

Xscape is not success!!!
I'm not trying to make is sound like it is success, but I'm saying it is success.
After 5 weeks its release, Xscape has out sold Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Shakira, Daft Punk and Justin Timberlake and they released their albums months ago, and those artist are touring and promoting their album the same time of release.

I'm not denying that it could have sold more, especially if all those people who illegally downloaded it (Xscape was most illegally downloaded album). Internet and other means have made it easier for people to get their music without paying for it, but all the artists have the same problem, so we don't see massive sales as we used to.

 

[Dorian]

I might get flack for this but the single nor album is a smash like some are trying to make it sound like.. It's a great album with very mediocre success an low success for who's album it is... This is in the US anyway

Eminem who released his album in November (Christmas time), who had 3 videos released before the album and one after (which was a BIG hit), and made some appearances at the EMA, VMA, SNL, etc. barely sold 2 millions in the US until now. The sales are crappy for ALL the artists. Now he's moving forward with barely 6k a week.

Eminem's the biggest name in the industry right now, and compared to his debute album MMLP from the 00s where he debuted with 1,4 milllions copy in the first week, the sales from now make his new album mediocre. (which it isn't. it's actually better than most of the crap that's out there)

 

[JEMFTV]

BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF 2014

1. "Frozen" OST - 4,777,000
2. "Beyoncé" Beyoncé - 1,922,000
3. "Ghost Stories" Coldplay - 1,724,000
4. "Pure Heroine" Lorde - 1,410,000
5. "Midnight Memories" One Direction - 1,399,000
6. "GIRL" Pharrell Williams - 1,399,000
7. "Prism" Katy Perry - 1,226,000
8. "The Marshall Matters LP 2" Eminem - 1,085,000
9. "Night Visions" Imagine Dragons - 1,081,000
10. "Tsugi No Ashiato" AKB 48 - 1,020,000

11. "Unorthodox Jukebox" Bruno Mars - 929,000
12. "Xscape" Michael Jackson - 923,000

In July (or August maybe), Xscape is gonna be the best selling album of 2014, i'm pretty sure.

 

[Dorian]

In July (or August maybe), Xscape is gonna be the best selling album of 2014, i'm pretty sure.

The gap between XSCAPE and Frozen is too big. He won't be able to surpass Lorde by July. Because of the simple fact that the debut has already happened. Now it will raise with most 100k a week.

 

[OnirMJ]

heres a few things for you to understand...

1. "People do buy albums" is all in retrospect to other albums... If you compare to other albums released it's medeocre.. Simple!
2. Whatever the reason which took up most of examples on your list... It still didn't sell all that well.
I'm not here saying why it didn't.. I'm just saying it didn't...

This album has potential to sell much more than it has been, so your list can be 2 pages but that doesn't change anything... It is sad to think the 'Michael' hitch was also a posthumous album sell more than this..

1. What other albums? Mariah? What other posthumous album?

Of course it has potential but it also have its limitations due to the abovesaid reasons. Imagine Katy Perry or Rihanna fans boycotting their albums. They would sell zero (0) copies. Michael with all the "fans" boycotting sold 1 MIL.

 

[Annita]

I think we can really look at the Xscape album as a success. Some fans miss to see which sales figures are realistic today. I think a comparison with Pharell Williams album Girl shows very well the huge success of Xscpae. Williams is certainly one of today's hottest artists with an incredibly successful single on the market worldwide. His album came out in March and has so far 1.399 million units sold.He is constant acitve in promoting his album. And Xscpae is after 5 weeks of sales with 923000 albums not far behind him.
Xscpae has after the debut naturally declining sales figures, but they are always in the frame. In the 5th week, it is still the 4th best-selling album of the week worldwide. Not many albums manage it to be in the Top Ten of the charts worldwide 4 or 5 weeks after the debut. It is a rarity. End of the week we will again have declining sales. I do not know how the week of the death anniversary affects Xscpae, it will certainly have increases in albums like Number Ones. But with the beginning of July, it is really important that Estate / Sony makes a further promotion and the impact should be that we then can see rising album numbers of Xscape compared to the previous weeks and the album remained at a stable sales level. So far the chances are really good that Xscape will continue to sell.

 

[JEMFTV]

I wonder what Rodney meant with:
"We've got some more suprises coming"

 

[InvincibleMJ]

Israel chart positions for LNFSG

1# in the two largest radio stations in the country (one of them 5 weeks in a row)
1# most played international song and music video the last 3 weeks

also Michael is the 4th most played internatinal artist in the country

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[Paris78]

The Best of Internet @TheBestofMJJ · 6 h.

Michael Jackson's new album Xscape still number ONE in Taiwan - Western chart: http://www.g-music.com.tw/GMusicBillboard2.aspx …

Looking good !!!

MJ101 @MJ_1_0_1 · June 20th
Xscape back on top of R&B and R&B/Hip Hop Charts

iTunes-Update:

LNFSG (with Justin) 11 (+2)
LNFSG (Solo) 235 (+60)

Xscape (Album) 16 (=)

http://kworb.net/aww/

 

[serendipity]

^thanks for the iTunes update.

Xscape is now up to #14 (+2)
and LNFSG (w/ JT) is up to #10 (+1)

 

[Doggone]

I wonder what Rodney meant with:
"We've got some more suprises coming"

What do you mean? Did he say that in an interview or something?

Further I don't think that LNFSG will be a top 10 hit anymore. The Estate (and Sony) should release Chicago, APWNN and STTR. You know how hard it is to convince the American public that these songs are #1 worthy.

 

[Paris78]

-- Michael Jackson: The late King of Pop lifts 12-9 on Adult Contemporary with "Love Never Felt So Good" (with Justin Timberlake). With his 13th AC top 10, and first since "You Are Not Alone" reached No. 7 in 1995, Jackson (who first reached the region with the No. 3-peaking "Ben" in 1972), expands his top 10 span on the ranking to 41 years and eight months. His run trails that of only Chicago, whose 24 top 10s span 42 years and one month (1970-2012). On the Hot 100, where "Love" descends 29-33, the song granted Jackson the longest span of top 10s (42 years, six months and one week) when it bounded 22-9 (May 31). With the ascent on the Hot 100, the late King of Pop passed Santana, whose top 10 history spans 33 years and eight months (1970-2003).

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articl...y-perry-sets-mainstream-top-40-record-michael

 

[Karthik]

Frozen is selling like Adele. Music still sells.

 

[HIStory]

Frozen is selling like Adele. Music still sells.

Where did you take that from?

Frozen sold 3 million copies in the US so far and about 4.8 million WW. It's great considering today's standards but it's nowhere near to Adele (her album 21 sold about 11 million copies in the US and 27 million WW). Plus Frozen is a movie soundtrack, probably a lot of people buy it because of the movie.

 

[FD1998]

People of Britain, please expect a massive decline of LNFSG in the chart this week due to many new releases. I predict it will go down 15 places due to what the iTunes chart looks like It will probably never play on music channels anymore or even the radio

 

[qbee]

Why wont it never be played again ..... ? of course it will go down in the charts all songs do enventally, but if they are good songs they will still be played. Anyway we will have a release of a new single soon .. They are milking LNFSG for as long as they can. It's been GREAT promotion for the Album. after all thats what singles are for.

 

[FD1998]

UK Charts: Love Never Felt So Good No. 24
- 8 weeks in the chart.
- Down 8 from last week, down 3 from Midweek chart.
- Chart run: 27, 24, 8, 10, 12, 12, 16, 24 (Official UK Chart).

Xscape: No. 13
- Down 3, up 1 from midweek chart.
- Chart run: 1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 13 (Official UK Chart).
- 6 weeks in chart.

Additionally: America's, A Horse With No Name is at 78 on the iTunes chart UK.