Category: MJ NEWS

As predicted, Michael Jackson is once again the King of the Pop charts.

Based on preliminary sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan, the entire top nine positions on Billboard’s Top Pop Catalog Albums chart will house Jackson-related titles when the tally is released in the early morning on Wednesday (July 1). Nielsen SoundScan’s sales tracking week ended at the close of business on Sunday (June 28) night.

Jackson himself has a record eight out of the top 10, while a Jackson 5 compilation also finds its way into the upper tier.

New photographs of Michael Jackson rehearsing for what was supposed to be one of the best live shows he has ever put together.

The This Is It set of concert dates were scheduled to be begin next month.

Hot Shot: Michael Jackson’s beloved mother has officially filed for custody of his 3 children. A hearing is scheduled for

A lawyer for Michael Jackson’s personal physician said today that reports that the doctor injected the pop star with a powerful painkiller before his death were “absolutely false.”

“There was no Demerol. No OxyContin,” Edward Chernoff, the attorney for Dr. Conrad Murray, told The Times.

The lawyer, who was present Saturday for Murray’s three-hour interview with Los Angeles police detectives, said Jackson was already unconscious when the doctor “fortuitously” entered the bedroom of the performer’s Holmby Hills mansion.

The 50-year-old entertainer “wasn’t breathing. He checked for a pulse. There was a weak pulse in his femoral artery. He started administering CPR,” said Chernoff, a Houston criminal defense attorney.

Los Angeles Police Department investigators were behind closed doors at an undisclosed location this evening meeting with Dr. Conrad Murray and his attorneys about the death of pop star Michael Jackson, who went into cardiac arrest on Thursday while under Murray’s care.

“They are still behind closed doors with investigators,”  said Miranda Sevckik, a spokeswoman for the Houston law firm of  Stradley, Chernoff  Alford, which was retained by Murray. “We don’t know, even the investigators probably don’t know, how long they are going to be.”

Mchael Jackson is more than an idol. He is the most influential artist of the 20th and 21st centuries. You can hear his voice in the music of almost every artist blasting from your radio; certainly every R&B superstar of today.

That artist has left us all today, June 25 2009 for a better place.

The media chose today to remember what a force in the music industry he is and what his gift meant to millions around the world.

This same media, mind you, generally treated him like a piece of $hit; a piece of garbage whose life was up for dissection and who sought the ruination of his legacy.

We have spent years watching his life being picked apart by some of the very same people who are now covering his passing, while hoping he could punch through the noise and continue to create.

Another day, another rumor about what Michael Jackson’s London shows will contain!

This one involves alleged talks for Britain’s Got Talent winners ‘Diversity’ to, in some way, be involved.

However, the trouble with this ‘news’ is that, according to UK magazine (tabloid?) New Magazine, Simon Cowell is trying to use this to get a deal with Jackson.

Supposedly Cowell wants to use the group’s participation to squeeze out an appearance from Jackson on one of his shows.

Concert organizers announced Wednesday that the start of Michael Jackson’s highly anticipated concert series in London this summer would be pushed back a few days, and in the case of some of the concerts, several months.

A delayed start for Jackson’s This Is It concert series is necessary “in order to meet the challenges presented by such a massive and technically complex show,” according to a message sent to ticket-holders by concert promoter AEG Live.

“We apologize to all disappointed Michael Jackson fans and remain extremely dedicated and focused on creating an exceptional live music experience,” said producer and director Kenny Ortega, who is collaborating with Jackson on the shows.