The story below got my eye today - MJ's records are selling like hotcakes. I also noticed that almost all the 10 ten albums and half the top ten songs on I-Tunes were MJ a couple of days ago (fewer today, but still a lot in both top 10s).
I notice this because the other day I was driving with my daughter and we were listening to music from my ipod. She wanted to listen to some MJ, and I only had one song (and it was from the J5). The point is that, while I once owned an Off The Wall album, and had Thriller and Bad on CD, in the itunes and ipod era, where I have relatively unconstrained access to just about any song I would like, I have never really expended even the low level energy/expense required to get MJ music. When I hear some of those songs I recognize somethings that I like - part nostalgia perhaps, part actual merit, but very little of it is now the kind of music I choose to listen too (I do have about 10 Elvis songs on my ipod, but I almost never listen to those either). It seems that a lot of Americans did not have very much MJ music around either, and so had to scramble to to but it in the last 10 days. Let me put it this way, when the very sad day comes that Stevie Wonder dies, I won't have to go to itunes to buy any of his music to listen to - because I already have it, and listen to it all the time. ******************** http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_en_mu/us_jackson_album_sales NEW YORK – Nielsen SoundScan says 800,000 copies of Michael Jackson albums were bought in the U.S. last week — nearly double his sales from the previous week. Jackson is claiming the entire Top 10 roster on the Top Catalog Album chart this week. His "Number Ones" collection is the top seller, followed by "Thriller." Solo albums occupy every position but No. 7, where the Jackson 5's "Ultimate Collection" album resides. Data from the week ending Sunday — the first full week since Jackson's June 25 death — shows physical albums accounted for 80 percent of his sales. On Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart, Jackson holds five out of the top 10 slots, with "Man in the Mirror" leading as his top-selling digital download song of the week. Four Jackson CDs also are in the top 10 albums sold on iTunes, and five of the top 10 singles for the week ending Monday. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
