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Originally posted by hugox
MCHAEL JACKSON was right:
THRILLER SOLD MORE than 100 MILLIONS !
"Michael Jackson’s Thriller album has sold more than 100,000,000 records worldwide. To commemorate this achievement Sony Music presented the Estate with an appropriate plaque at the Xscape NYC listening event held at Top Of The Rock! #MJXSCAPE"
When MJ was alive he asked SONY to give him royallties....
SONY: what did you do to MJ?
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Don't miscontrue this though, the album hasn't sold 100M+ copies, it has sold 100M+ records. That includes single sales, video sales and album sales.
The album has sold 68-75M (including
Thriller 25 sales)
Single estimates are sketchy and vary: 22-36M (excluding ~3M
Say, Say, Say sales)
Girl Is Mine - 2.5M+
Billie Jean - 6M-10M
Beat It - 5.5M-8M
WBSS - 2-3M
Human Nature - 1-2M
PYT - 1-2M
Thriller 6M+
Video sales: 12-20M
Making of Thriller + Thriller Short Film VHS sales = 9-10M
iTunes have sales over ~10M for MJ digital videos, it's likely a large proportion of them are Thriller/Billie Jean/Beat It.
Other media like ringtones and music DVDs, etc likely account for 2-5M.
Thriller Record Sales: 104M-136M
(Guinness World Records had the total at 104M in 2006, before Thriller 25's sales and before the posthumous sales surge).
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OT: Wooo Xscape! Hoping for something to get sent to radio next week, they need to start momentum going again now that the initial announcement hype is gone.
