His work has already swayed the sales regardless of his passing away. He is the first artist to hold eight of the top 10 slots on any Billboard chart and the first to claim six positions, including the top four, in the top 10 digital albums chart.
On analyzing his work, ‘Nielsen Sound Scan’ (an information system that tracks sales of music and music video) holds, The 2003 compilation ‘Number ones’ leads with 108,000 copies, followed by 2005's ‘The Essential Michael Jackson’ with 102,000; and 2008's ‘Thriller’ reissue with 101,000.
Not only this, the King of Pop has even busted the digital confines. Since ‘Sound Scan’ began tracking downloads in July 2004, no artist has sold 1 million tracks in a single week - until now. Fans downloaded almost 2.3 million Jackson songs last week. That's nearly double the total tracks he sold in the first 25 weeks of 2009.
Nine Jackson tunes were downloaded more than 100,000 times each. Collectively, Jackson's solo albums sold 422,000 this past week. Jackson’s work magnified because one could get whatever one wanted instantly online.
“If anyone can move mountains and shift charts, even in death, it's Michael Jackson," says Keith Caulfield, Billboard’s senior chart analyst.
Michael Jackson might not have made any record since a decade but his work surely has broken all the records on the pop music charts.
Caulfield added, "Jackson is in a universe of his own when it comes to his influence on pop culture."
We hope that the sales keep witnessing a rise on the music charts and ditto with the fate of his children.
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