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Originally posted by collin
Clowns.  |
lol
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Originally posted by conatus
Remember The Time is a very good song.
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legendary
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Originally posted by iHype.
Tommy confirmed they would spend millions on promotion to make his return seem huge, would lie to tabloids about figures, and MJ was the one behind it all. 
A mess. The book was an interesting read. I never finished it though.
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it's not like tommy is credible
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Michael really was a megalomaniac, though. Naming an album HIStory.
Cringe.
These narcs are all unequipped to handle adult life.
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You don't get the meaning behind it. It all makes sense if you did.
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Originally posted by iHype.
Tommy straight up said when Invincible was bombing and they refused to keep throwing away millions in unethical promotion and etc that was when Michael got mad and started accusing him of being racist and coming forward with accusations so he could be dropped from Sony (the original Kesha vs. Dr Luke kii), and go to a new label who would do everything he said.  He was obsessed with making all his follow-ups to Thriller look just as huge as Thriller, when they were normal eras at the end of the day.
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This is nonsensical.
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Originally posted by iHype.
It's shows that before the internet labels could literally choose and pick what looked huge behind-the-scenes.
Another thing:
When "You Are Not Alone" debuted #1, they made it look HUGE and earth-shattering since he was the first artist to do it. In reality, what had happened was, they let the song surge all the way up radio without being available for sale, then released it on sale so it went right to #1. Back then, you weren't allowed to chart on Hot 100 unless the song was on sale.
"You Are Not Alone" only sold 120,000 first week. That was good, but nothing earth shattering (Whitney sold 632,000 of IWALY 2 years prior!) yet they made it seem like it was a huge huge release. Funny thing -- "Fantasy" debuted at #1 two months later, with 229,000 in sales. If Michael was truly this out-of-this world never before seen power, why did Mariah sell almost double? He was truly not as big as him / his label tried to fool everyone into believing in the press.
Fast forward to 2001 when "Invincible" 363,000 first week. 363K wasn't nothing huge in 2001 to open with (the average #1 album in 2001 sold 422,202 copies so it was actually BELOW what the average #1 album was selling). Yet they had him block-out Times Square and made it seem like "the King of Pop was having a huge return!!!". That's when everything started backfiring for him.
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It was huge. the song flopped in the long run though.
This is the same tactic Mariah carey used to get those #1 hits.
They would wait until her songs reached top 15 on airplay, repress the single sale release and discount it.
Ihype do NOT go there with tactics.
Mariah was screwing Tommy mottola while MARRIED and tommy and company used stunts to ge her those #1s which is why there was a drastic decline during the butterfly era and so on and so forth
Of all stans a MARIAH stan should not be coming for chart manipulation.
Don't throw the rock and hide your hand.
Whew let's not get into mariah's stunts.
That was the REAL reason why she was jealous of Celine who could sell 10M actual albums and celine didn't have to screw the president of the company nor did she have to rely on stunts for chart peaks.
