Michael Jackson’s music is all over the Billboard charts along with increases in the charting positions for both the album and the music DVD for Number Ones.
The owner of a Santa Monica-based air charter service has been ordered to pay attorney Mark Geragos and an associate more than $12 million for ordering secret videotaping of Michael Jackson and the lawyers as they flew with the pop star to his surrender on molestation charges in 2003.
With the release of Thriller25, which is over-performing in sales, Michael Jackson is the only artist to currently have 2 albums in the Top 10 on the Billboard Pop Catalog chart.
KING OF POP (CATALOG): In its original run, Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" was on The Billboard 200 for 122 weeks, 37 of which were spent at No. 1.
With the re-entry of a silver anniversary edition, the rechristened "Thriller 25" (Legacy/Epic) is in its 112th week on the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart and is No. 1 on that tally for the first time.
Thriller 25 — the newly-expanded deluxe 25th anniversary edition of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the world’s best-selling album of all-time — is America’s #2 Top-Selling Album this week, more than a quarter century after the album’s original release. Already shaping up as one of the hottest albums of 2008, Thriller 25 has rocketed into the Top 5 (or better) in a variety of territories across the planet following its worldwide release the week of February 11.
When is the second highest selling album of the week nowhere to be found in the top 200?
There used to be a number of reasons but now it’s down to one: When the disc has been classified as a catalog release.
The 25th anniversary edition of Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" (Epic/Legacy) sold 166,000 copies in its first week of release, which would make it the second biggest seller of the week that ended Sunday.
Twenty-five years after its initial release, Thriller25 is on the charts again in the UK.
According to Radio 1’s Official Chart Show,
‘STARTIN” ALL OVER AGAIN: After an absence from the Hot 100 of four years, one month and one week, Michael Jackson returns with “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ 2008,” an update of a song that was originally a No. 5 hit a quarter of a century ago.
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ 2008 with {tag Akon} has cracked the Pop 100 Airplay chart. According to Billboard.com’s website, the