Kleinigkeiten Rund um Michael Jackson

    Michael Jackson's Reecord Sales


    4/3/09


    UPDATE:After some new found certifications and estimations for ALL catigories(Albums, Single, and Home Video) MJ's sales are at 355,089,572 allbums and singles sold. NOT INCLUDING HOME VIDEO
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    Michael Jackson is the biggest selling solo artist in history. Many record companies were known to prop up record sales with unrealistic figures. For example EMI says that the Beatles sold over a billion records, RCA says Elvis sold over a billion, and Michael Jackson says that he sold 750 million; all of those figures are obviously ludicrous. The reason they do this is because they want to promote their artist to be bigger than they really are, but music experts realize that these are obviously fabricated figures. This is especially true for older artists, whose record sales were not documented as thoroughly and as much as they should have, so they fabricated these figures a lot. To date, no artist or group has sold over 500 million records, but some have come close.
    The impressive part about Michael's record sales is not how many records he released, but how much he has sold with so little he released compared to the likes of The Beatles and Elvis. For anyone who wants to know the run through of Michael Jackson's record sales here is a run through of his record sales.


    THANKS MJJCHARTS FOR A LOT OF THIS INFO



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    Michael is well known for recording the world's bestselling album, but the sales and achievements of his other solo albums are less well publicized. On this page, I have listed Michael's solo albums - Motown and CBS/Epic - in order of release, together with known or estimated sales figures, plus known certifications.


    Albums:


    Studio Albums: 10


    1. Got To Be There (1971)- 4,112,879


    2. Ben (1972)- 4,401,605


    3. Music and Me (1973)- 1,980,440


    4. Forever, Michael (1975)- 1,687,234


    5. Off The Wall (1979)- 20,000,000


    6. Thriller (1982)- 65,000,000


    7. Bad (1987)- 33,200,000


    8. Dangerous (1991)- 30,000,000


    9. HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book l (1995)- 22,000,000 (44 million units)


    10. Invincible (2001)- 12,000,000


    Studio Albums Sold= 194,382,158




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    Compilations: 22


    1. The Best of....(All Versions)- 3,500,223


    2. One Day In Your Life (1981)- 1,600,208


    3. Farewell My Summer (1984)- 2,087,110


    4. Looking Back to Yesterday (1986)- 302,330


    5. 18 Greatest Hits (?)- 1,500,000


    6. Anthology (?)- 2,655,098


    7. Other Pre- 1991 Motown Compilations (?)- 700,000


    8. Their Very Best- Back To Back (?)- 250,000


    9. Love Songs (?)- 800,000


    10. The Original Soul Of (?)- 377,745


    11. The Michael Jackson Mix (?)- 500,000


    12. The Best of- The Motown Years (?)- 300,000


    13. The Best of- The Millennium Collection (?)- 300,000


    14. Love Songs (?)- 100,000


    15. Other Post- 1990 Motown Compilations (?)- 2,500,000


    16. Special CD Box (?)- 4,000


    17. Greatest Hits HIStory Volume 1 (2001)- 3,000,000


    18. Number Ones (2003)- 7,000,000


    19. Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection (2004)- 500,000


    20. The Essential Michael Jackson (2005)- 2,500,000


    21. King of Pop (2008)- 700,000


    22. 14 Greatest Hits (1984)- 500.000


    Compilations Sold= 31,676,714



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    Other Albums: 4


    1. E.T. The Extra- Terrestrial & Singles Packs (1982)- 100,000


    2. Dangerous- The Remix Collection (?)- 22,000


    3. Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997)-8,000,000


    4. Thriller: 25 (2008)- 3,000,000


    Other Albums Sold= 11,122,000




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    Total Albums Sold= 237,180,872



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    On this page, I have listed Michael's home music videos & DVDs in order of release, together with known or estimated sales figures, plus known certifications.


    HOME VIDEO/DVD


    Home Video/DVD: 11


    1. Making Michael Jackson's Thriller (VHS- 1983)- 9,000,000


    2. The Legend Continues...(VHS- 1988)- 1,500,000


    3. Moonwalker (VHS- 1988)- 3,000,000


    4. Dangerous- The Short Films [VHS (1993), DVD (2001)]- 575,000


    5. Video Greatest Hits- HIStory [VHS (1995), DVD (2001)]- 1,250,000


    6. HIStory On Film- Volume ll (DVD- 1997)- 800,000


    7. Ghosts (1997)- 250,000


    8. Number Ones (DVD- 2003)- 1,600,000


    9. The Ones (DVD- 2004)- 125,000


    10. Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour (DVD- 2005)- 500,000


    11. History I + II (?)- 25,000


    Home Video/DVD Sold= 18,625,000


    NOTE: Home Video/DVD Sales are NOT counted in overall record sales.




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    Michael's single sales are much less well documented than his album sales.
    On this page, we have listed Michael's solo singles - Motown and CBS/Epic/Sony - in order of release, together with known or estimated sales figures, plus all known certifications.
    SINGLES:
    Singles: 68
    1. Got To Be There (1971)- 2,360,000
    2. Rockin' Robin (1972)- 3,042,000
    3. I Wanna Be Where You Are (1972)- 1,388,000
    4. Ain't No Sunshine (1972)- 293,000
    5. Ben (1972)- 3,152,000
    6. Morning Glow (?)- 16,300
    7. With A Child's Heart (1973)- 358,000
    8. Music And Me (1973)- 13,000
    9. Doggin' Around (?)- 5,000
    10. We're Almost There (1975)- 423,000
    11. Just A Little Bit of You (1975)- 904,000
    12. One Day In Your Life (1981)- 1,844,000
    13. Happy (?)- 153,000
    14. Farewell My Summer Love (1984)- 828,000
    15. Girl You're So Together (1984)- 94,000
    16. Touch The One You Love (?)- 1,000
    17. Twenty- Five Miles (?)-11,000
    18. Ease On Down The Road (1978)- 125,000
    19. A Brand New Day (?)- 62,500
    20. You Can't Win (1979)- 62,500
    21. Don't Stop Till' You Get Enough (1979)- 3,125,000
    22. Rock With You (1979)- 2,937,000
    23. Off The Wall (1980)- 1,187,000
    24. She's Out Of My Life (1980)- 1,250,000
    25. Girlfriend (1980)- 40,000
    26. The Girl Is Mine (1982)- 2,687,000
    27. Billie Jean (1983)- 7,893,000
    28. Beat It (1983)- 6,168,000
    29. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'(1983)- 2,250,000
    30. Human Nature (1983)- 1,433,400
    31. P.Y.T.(Pretty Young Thing)(1983)- 1,719,000
    32. Say Say Say (1983)- 3,562,000
    33. Thriller (1984)- 5,666,000
    34. We Are The World (1985)- 20,000,000
    35. I Just Can't Stop Loving You (1987)- 2,812,000
    36. Bad (1987)- 2,035,000
    37. The Way You Make Me Feel (1987)- 1,737,000
    38. Man In The Mirror (1988)- 1,404,000
    39. Get It (1988)- 225,000
    40. Dirty Diana (1988)- 1,500,000
    41. Another Part Of Me (1988)- 1,037,000
    42. Smooth Criminal (1988)- 1,687,000
    43. Leave Me Alone (1989)- 606,000
    44. Liberian Girl (1989)- 206,000
    45. Black Or White (1991)- 3,053,000
    46. Remember The Time (1992)- 1,625,000
    47. In The Closet (1992)- 775,000
    48. Jam (1992)- 637,000
    49. Who Is It (1992)- 675,000
    50. Heal The World (1992)- 2,036,000
    51. Give Into Me (1993)- 375,000
    52. Will You Be There (1993)- 1,312,000
    53. Goon Too Soon (1993)- 75,000
    54. Scream/ Childhood (1995)- 2,993,000
    55. You Are Not Alone (1995)- 3,858,000
    56. Earth Song (1995)- 3,966,000
    57. They Don't Care About Us (1996)- 2,205,000
    58. Why (1996)- 595,000
    59. Stranger In Moscow (1996)- 675,000
    60. Blood On The Dance Floor (1997)- 1,200,000
    61. HIStory/ Ghosts (1997)- 470,000
    62. You Rock My World (2001)- 1,915,000
    63. Cry (2001)- 56,000
    64. One More Chance (2003)- 281,000
    65. Visionary- The Video Singles (2006)- 350,000
    66. The Girl Is Mine 2008 (2008)- 190,000
    67. Wanna Be Startin' Somtin' Somethin' 2008 (2008)- 190,000
    68. Beat It 2008 (2008)- 50,000
    69. Billie Jean 2008- 50,000


    Singles Sold= 117,908,700



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    Total Albums + Singles= 355,089,572



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    RECORD SALES ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECORDS
    This part will recognize the record breaking and amazing achievements that Michael Jackson set during his solo career. I am not going to include chart history or achievements unless it I have to.


    1. Jackson's album "Thriller" (1982) is the best selling album of all time, with 65 million copies sold worldwide. And runs neck and neck with the Eagles Greatest Hits, for the biggest selling album in the U.S. And The best-selling album by a solo artist in the United States.


    2. Jackson's album "Off the Wall" (1979) was the biggest selling album by a black artist at the time, with 10 million sold at the time, and 20 million sold to date. This record was later smashed by Michael's next album "Thriller". And has sold 8.6 million copies In the U.S.


    3. Jackson's album "Bad" (1987) at one point for a few years was the second biggest selling album of all time, with 28 million sold at the time and over 33 million sold to date. But that has since then been surpassed.


    4. Jackson's album "Dangerous" (1991) is the biggest selling New Jack Swing album of all time with over 30 million copies sold worldwide. And 8 million copies in the U.S. And for a period in time it was close to being the third best selling album of all time.


    5. Jackson's album "HIStory: Past, Present, and Future Book I" (1995) is the biggest selling multi-disc album of all time, with over 22 million copies sold worldwide (44 million units). And 4.2 million copies in the U.S.(8.4 million units).


    6. Jackson's album "Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix" (1997) is the biggest selling remix album of all time with over 8 million copies sold worldwide. And 1.05 million in the U.S.


    7. "Thriller" currently holds the record for being the first and only album in the United States to top the sales charts for two separate years. Being the best selling album in 1983 and 1984.


    8. "Thriller" is Jackson's biggest selling album in the United States with 28 million sold to date. And Jackson's second biggest selling album in the U.K. and one of the U.K.'s biggest selling albums.


    9. "Bad" is Jackson's biggest selling album in the United Kingdom with 4.6 million copies sold, and is one the best selling albums in the U.K. And in the U.S. it has sold 10.5 million copies, making it Jackson's second biggest selling album in the U.S. And the best selling record by a solo artist in UK history.


    10. When released 'Bad' became the fastest selling album ever in the UK. For many years it was the biggest selling album in the UK.





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    11. "Dangerous" has become one of the biggest selling albums of the 1990's.


    12. "Dangerous" is the fastest selling album in history to be on the #1 position of the charts. And makes history for going to #1 just 3 days after its release.


    13. In worldwide sales, in the UK and US, Bad were 48% of the total worldwide sales. For Dangerous, it is 33%, making it more successful globally (not just restricted to those two regions). The singles from Dangerous were mostly bigger hits in Europe and Australia and more were released than Bad. These were spectacular sales records compared to Michael's earlier two albums, Thriller and Bad in many European countries and Australia. Dangerous sold very well in both Asia and South America, two emerging and growing record markets.


    14. Jackson is the biggest selling artist of the 1980s, with an unprecedented sale of over 110 million records from 1980-1989.


    15. Jackson has sold approximately 40 million records in the new millennium, from 2000-2008.


    16. In 1987 "Bad" shipped over two million copies in the United States, and during its first week in the U.K. it outsold the no.2 album "HITS 6" by an unprecedented margin of 10:1 shifting 350,000 copies- a record.


    17. In a hectic three days trading after its release, "Dangerous" shifted 200,000+ copies, good enough to Michael the top spot ahead of U2'ss new album, "Achtung Baby".


    18. Released in November of 1991, by the end of 1991 "Dangerous" sold an impressive 10 million copies.


    19. In 1992, "Dangerous" was the 6th bestselling album of the year in the United States, and the 5th bestselling album in the U.K. And the biggest selling album of 1992 worldwide.


    20. In the United States, in crashing in at #1, "HIStory" sold 391,000 copies in its first week. Good enough to make it the largest selling multi-disc debutant of the 'SoundScan' computer monitored sales era, comfortably topping the 369,000 copies shifted by the Beatles' "Live at the BBC"




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    21. Amazingly, given it was issued on a Friday and so only had two days sales to count towards its first chart position, "HIStory" was also an instant #1 in the U.K. In those two days it shifted 100,000+ copies, more than the #2 and #3 albums- by Pink Floyed and Bjork- put together.


    22. In the first three weeks, "Blood on The Dance Floor" shifted just 79,000 copies across the United States, compared to with 100,000+ in Holland, 250,000 in the U.K. and nearly 450,000 in Germany. Globally, in just three weeks, Blood On The Dance Floor shipped around 3.5 million copies, with sales subsequently topping 4 million- unprecedented for a remix album.


    23. In the United States "Invincible" sold 366,000 copies in the first week- Michael's second best opening figure of the SoundScan era. The album shifted 110,000 copies in the first week and gave him his seventh chart topping album.


    24. According to the 2000 World Music Awards, Jackson is the biggest selling solo artist of the past millennium, with record sales of over 250 million records.


    25. Jackson has 9 platinum singles, the second most by any male artist in the U.S.(second only to Elvis).


    26. Jackson is the first United States Artist to sell 100 million copies outside of the U.S.


    27. Jackson is the first artist ever to have 4 consecutive albums sell 167 million records internationally.


    28. Michael Jackson is the biggest selling international artist in the United States with 259.2 million records sold outside of the U.S.


    29. Michael Jackson is the biggest selling artist of the 90's with 123 million sold.


    30. He is the only musical act to have 2 albums in the Top 10 biggest selling albums of all time.


    31. He is the only musical act to have 3 albums in the Top 20 biggest selling albums of all time.




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    Nein, ist nicht neu.


    Das ist nach der INVINCIBLE-Zeit.
    Genauer glaube ich um die Zeit des Prozesses. Näher kann ich es nicht mehr einschränken. War jedoch zu einer Zeit, in der es um Mike zumindest öffentlich nicht so gut stand.


    Von daher eine ziemlich nette Äußerung :)

    Zitat von Streetwalker

    Nein, ist nicht neu.


    Das ist nach der INVINCIBLE-Zeit.
    Genauer glaube ich um die Zeit des Prozesses. Näher kann ich es nicht mehr einschränken. War jedoch zu einer Zeit, in der es um Mike zumindest öffentlich nicht so gut stand.


    Von daher eine ziemlich nette Äußerung :)


    ahsoo danke für die info!
    dann sollte man das video nicht weiter beachten
    es sei denn man kennt es noch nicht :)


    möchte ja nichts altes wieder rauskramen

    Zitat von Streetwalker

    Nein, ist nicht neu.


    Das ist nach der INVINCIBLE-Zeit.
    Genauer glaube ich um die Zeit des Prozesses. Näher kann ich es nicht mehr einschränken. War jedoch zu einer Zeit, in der es um Mike zumindest öffentlich nicht so gut stand.


    Von daher eine ziemlich nette Äußerung :)


    Genau.
    Dass das nicht aktuell ist, kann man auch deutlich an Prince Haarlänge und seinem Kleidungsstil erkennen.

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