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By Zach Baron, Wednesday, Nov. 4 2009 @ 12:30PM
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So if you're following along: Michael Jackson's Number Ones is already on pace to have a shot at becoming 2009's bestselling record; This Is It, the film, has done $103 million in ticket sales and counting; and now the documentary's companion record has debuted with 373,000 copies sold, "the fifth-best sales week for an album in the U.S. this year," according to Billboard, and Mike's sixth overall #1. This is big, fanatically huge business--in total, Jackson is going to end up outselling the next closest artist by something like 2:1 in 2009. This despite Thiller already being the best-selling album of all time, which is to say a lot of these people almost surely had a spare on the shelf when they went back to the store this week. Joe Jackson is basically a complete fucking monster but today, he's right. [Billboard]

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nancy @ princetoncryo says:

MJ was the legend. What else can trigger such a huge sale?

Posted On: Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 8:37AM
Nitrogen says:

Yes, no doubt about it. We recently had a holloween party where everyone got dressed as zombies and danced on Micheal's songs.

Posted On: Thursday, Nov. 5 2009 @ 10:52AM

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