On Jul 8, 6:24 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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