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Released on 30 November 1982, Thriller by Michael Jackson (USA, 1958-2009) is the world’s best-selling album. Sales figures vary wildly from source to source, but it is estimated that the album – featuring seven US Top 10 singles – has sold in excess of 67 million copies across the globe.
- Chartmasters’ Method: The CSPC
- Original Albums Sales
- Physical Singles Sales
- Streaming Sales
- Full Length Related Record Sales
- Bonus – Compilation Albums Sales
- Bonus: Total Album (All Types) Sales Per Country
- Michael Jackson Career CSPC Results
- Biggest Tracks – Michael Jackson
- Records & Achievements
As usual, I’ll be using the Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept(CSPC) in order to relevantly gauge the act’s results. It will not only bring you sales information for all albums, physical and download singles, as well as audio and video streaming. In fact, it will really determine the act’s popularity. If you are not yet familiar with the CSPC...
Got to be There
1. America 1.1. US – 600,000 1.2. Canada – 30,000 1.3. Argentina – N/A 1.4. Brazil – 60,000 1.5. Mexico – N/A 2. Asia – N/A 2.1. Japan – N/A 3. Oceania 3.1. Australia – N/A 3.2. New Zealand – N/A 4. Europe – 650,000 4.1. UK – 180,000 4.2. France – 75,000 4.3. Germany – N/A 4.4. Italy – N/A 4.5. Spain – N/A 4.6. Sweden – N/A 4.7. Netherland – N/A 4.8. Switzerland – N/A 4.9. Austria – N/A 4.10. Finland – N/A 5. World – 1,600,000 NB: N/A means no specific number is available. Sales from the coun...
Ben
NB: N/A means no specific number is available. Sales from the country are still accounted for in the Worldwide estimate by using figure patterns of both the artist and the country market. Countries not displayed in this fixed panel are factored in also.
Off The Wall
1. America 1.1. US – 8,735,000 1.2. Canada – 775,000 1.3. Argentina – 155,000 1.4. Brazil – 415,000 1.5. Mexico – 400,000 2. Asia – 1,435,000 2.1. Japan – 720,000 3. Oceania 3.1. Australia – 375,000 3.2. New Zealand – 105,000 4. Europe – 6,420,000 4.1. UK – 2,740,000 4.2. France – 750,000 4.3. Germany – 675,000 4.4. Italy – 420,000 4.5. Spain – 330,000 4.6. Sweden – 120,000 4.7. Netherland – 265,000 4.8. Switzerland – 90,000 4.9. Austria – 55,000 4.10. Finland – 25,000 5. World – 19,425,000 N...
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.
Streaming is made up of two families – audio and video. Our CSPC methodology now includes both to better reflect the real popularity of each track. The main source of data for each avenue is respectively Spotify and YouTube. As detailed in the Fixing Log article, Spotify represents 132 million of the 212 million users of streaming platforms, while ...
It sounds fairly logical to add together weighted sales of one era – studio album, physical singles, downloads, streams – to get the full picture of an album’s popularity. For older releases though, they also generate sales of various live, music videos and compilation albums. All those packaging-only records do not create value, they exploit the v...
Blood On The Dance Floor
NB: N/A means no specific number is available. Sales from the country are still accounted for in the Worldwide estimate by using figure patterns of both the artist and the country market. Countries not displayed in this fixed panel are factored in also.
Please note that some of the countries totals may be slightly incomplete when the figure is N/A for minor releases. Countries with too much missing information to be precise enough are listed as N/A.
So, after checking all the figures, how many overall equivalent album sales has each Michael Jackson album achieved? Well, at this point we hardly need to add up all of the figures defined in this article! In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parenthese...
The list of most successful songs is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each of them. It includes the song’s own physical singles sales with a 0,3 weighting, its download and streaming sales, and with appropriate weighting too, plus its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.
Sales-related
1. At 65,8 million pure sales, Thrilleris the best selling album ever. 2. At 33,6 million pure sales, Badis the #2 top selling male studio album ever, top 10 album studio albums and top 10 album artist albums. 3. At 29,55 million pure sales, Dangerousis the #3 top selling male studio album ever, top 20 album studio albums and top 20 album artist albums. 4. Off The Wall and HIStoryare among the top 100 best selling albums ever. 5. At 182,6 million, Michael Jacksonsold more studio albums than a...
Charts-Related
1. At 11 years and 155 days, Michael Jackson is the youngest artist ever to top the Hot 100 while leading the Jackson 5 on I Want You Back. 2. You Are Not Alonewas the first #1 debut ever of the Billboard Hot 100. 3. At 5, Michael Jacksonhas the longest streak of US #1 hits ever for a male artist. 4. At 5, Badhas the most US #1 hits ever from an album. 5. At 7, Thriller has the most US Top 10 hits ever from an album. 6. At 7, Bad andDangerous shared the record for the most UK Top 10 hits ever...
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This article lists some of the sales and charts records and achievements of Michael Jackson (1958–2009), an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Jackson's success during his peak in the 1980s and 1990s included a number of notable statistical accomplishments.
May 2, 2024 · Sales were largely to thank for Thriller’s thrilling climb. According to Luminate, Jackson’s album sold 2,615 copies last week in America. That’s a growth of more than 34% from the period ...
Michael Jackson 's Thriller, estimated to have sold between 70 and 100 million copies worldwide, [4] is the best-selling album ever. [5] [6] [7] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, while Celine Dion has four and the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Madonna and Whitney Houston each have three.
