Michael Jackson official thread! -all the NEWS

[Shallow]

thriller is! over 100 million copys!!

No it's not.

[RECOGNIZE187]

yea it is...worldwide!! Guinness book of World Records
104 million copies sold internationaly
54 million in the USA

SOURCE:sony/bmg RIAA .Billboard

he is the most successful entertainer off all time

look down on the right..for thriller!!

[RECOGNIZE187]

how they know its gon be "biggest selling album of all time"?

for some reason i found this funny 

since this re-release has more than 3 new songs, it wont add on to the original thrillers sales, right? you'd think they would try and milk it for 200 mill or something

i think it will add..its still thriller

[Shallow]

yea it is...worldwide!! Guinness book of World Records
104 million copies sold internationaly
54 million in the USA

SOURCE:sony/bmg RIAA .Billboard

he is the most successful entertainer off all time

I don't care what that phony picture frame says. Maybe it means 104 million dollars generated. I fon't know. But RIAA which you brought uop lists Thriller at 27 platinum and MJ as a whole at 60.5 platinum. Your numbers on Thriller US sales are double what they really are. In fact if you tally up all the ceritification from all the major music markets you'll get under 60 million.

Country    Certification        Sales
Argentina    10x Platinum    500,000
Australia    12x Platinum      850,000
Brazil    6x Diamond              2,000,000
Belgium    11x Platinum     550,000
Canada    2x Diamond          2,000,000
Finland    3x Platinum        90,000
France    3x Diamond          3,000,000
Germany    3x Platinum   1,500,000
Japan    2x Diamond           2,500,000
Mexico    Diamond             500,000
Netherlands    11x Platinum  880,000
New Zealand    Diamond      150,000
Portugal    3x Platinum    140,000
Spain    8x Platinum             640,000
Switzerland    6x Platinum    240,000
UK    11x Platinum           3,570,000
USA       27x Platinum        27,000,000


So where are these magical countries that bring in the other 45 million sales? Show me the figues. If Thriller sold 104 million then Hulk Hogan is really 6'8''.

[cyence]

link no worky

[RECOGNIZE187]

yea it is...worldwide!! Guinness book of World Records
104 million copies sold internationaly
54 million in the USA

SOURCE:sony/bmg RIAA .Billboard

he is the most successful entertainer off all time

I don't care what that phony picture frame says. Maybe it means 104 million dollars generated. I fon't know. But RIAA which you brought uop lists Thriller at 27 platinum and MJ as a whole at 60.5 platinum. Your numbers on Thriller US sales are double what they really are. In fact if you tally up all the ceritification from all the major music markets you'll get under 60 million.

Country    Certification        Sales
Argentina    10x Platinum    500,000
Australia    12x Platinum      850,000
Brazil    6x Diamond              2,000,000
Belgium    11x Platinum     550,000
Canada    2x Diamond          2,000,000
Finland    3x Platinum        90,000
France    3x Diamond          3,000,000
Germany    3x Platinum   1,500,000
Japan    2x Diamond           2,500,000
Mexico    Diamond             500,000
Netherlands    11x Platinum  880,000
New Zealand    Diamond      150,000
Portugal    3x Platinum    140,000
Spain    8x Platinum             640,000
Switzerland    6x Platinum    240,000
UK    11x Platinum           3,570,000
USA       27x Platinum        27,000,000


So where are these magical countries that bring in the other 45 million sales? Show me the figues. If Thriller sold 104 million then Hulk Hogan is really 6'8''.

u r stupid!!
104 million means copies!! not money!! it was in the new ebony magazine also..it says :104 million copies!!

u have england...then u have asia...japan china and so on..WORLDWIDE! u know how many countrys! + thriller was released in 1982! now its 2008! it was re released a couple of times...also before u had LP's...cassetes...,later cd's and so on!people bought new copies, they wanted the album on cd!!  at the time of the trial 2003,thriller sold a lot of millions!
use your brain man..dont think with your ass.and stop hatin
Invincible his last album,sold around 10 million copies worldwide!!without the real promotion!! so its only logical and normal thriller sold 100 ! i mean,who didn't buy thriller?? i have 3 lp's,2 cds,1 special edition cd,2 cassetes..and im gonna buy this new one too..so basicly i have 9 copies myself!!!
its in the book! that thriller sold 104 worldwide! are u an idiot???
forget about the millions, its the biggest selling album of all time!!!!! if u like it or not!! ITS IN THE BOOK!! ITS A FACT!!!!


and u can hate on him...but still...!read!

Michael Jackson is an American R&B, pop and rock artist whose recording career has spanned from 1963 to the present. In 1982, Jackson recorded what has been named the best-selling album of all-time, Thriller with reported worldwide sales of over 104 million from Guinness World Records.

Michael Jackson's record company Sony BMG has never given an accumulative sales figure for Jackson, but estimates vary for Jackson's top 3 albums as selling between 120 and 160 million alone. It has been estimated by various fan sites that Jackson's accumulative worldwide sales is about 300 million, while in November 2006, Jackson's publicist, Raymone K. Bain, announced that Jackson had sold over 750 million albums and singles worldwide.

Michael Jackson has been awarded numerous honors, including the World Music Awards' Best-selling pop male artist of the Millennium,[5]and on November 14, 2006, The Guinness Book Of Records presented Jackson with eight certificates for musical achievements. Among them was an award for being "The most successful Entertainer of all time" for various achievements. He also received an award for being the "Highest paid Entertainer of all time" (he received $125 million in album/singles sales in 1989). Among six of the other certificates for musical achievements, Jackson also received an award for being the "First Entertainer to sell more than 100 million albums outside the US." Jackson is often referred to as the 'King of Pop' by fans and media alike.

From 1963 to 1984, Jackson was also a member of The Jackson 5 (later called "The Jacksons"). Their accumulative worldwide sales are reported to be be approximately 140 million [11]. Sometimes their sales total is added to Jackson's solo sales total because he was their lead singer from 1968 to 1984 and chief songwriter from 1978 to 1984.

so..MJ >> beatles & elvis!!!
so yea..for all the racist people...the most successful artist of all time is a BLACK man!!

[RECOGNIZE187]

link no worky

new link is up 

[Cali_Raized]

Gonna cop this no doubt hes a music legend

[Trauma-san]

Amazing how That stupid fucker up above trusts his own limited NET research more than he trusts the Guiness Book of World Records, a well established company that put it's reputation on the line to back up that number.  What a fucking moron. 

"Platinum" certifications are requested by the specific record companies, and they provide their own numbers to prove the certifications.  Just because Sony hasn't requested platinum certifications in years in some of these countries doesn't say shit.

Face it.  Michael Jackson sold more copies of Thriller than the eagles did.  Sorry to piss you off, I know you don't like him, but it's what's called "REALITY".  Not always what you want. 

[Trauma-san]

unreleased track...thats gonna be on new thriller 25 album! Mike added some new vocals!!

it's nice!!

enjoy

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7eh5d7

I think the whole lead is new.  I can't prove that, but his voice sounds slightly different now than it did then, basically he had more energy then because he was younger and this vocal sounds more like his recent stuff.  Good song.  I don't know why the hell he won't do shit like this anymore, and I don't know why it takes him 5 years to touch up 4 songs.  Pfft. 

[Shallow]

Amazing how That stupid fucker up above trusts his own limited NET research more than he trusts the Guiness Book of World Records, a well established company that put it's reputation on the line to back up that number.  What a fucking moron. 

"Platinum" certifications are requested by the specific record companies, and they provide their own numbers to prove the certifications.  Just because Sony hasn't requested platinum certifications in years in some of these countries doesn't say shit.

Face it.  Michael Jackson sold more copies of Thriller than the eagles did.  Sorry to piss you off, I know you don't like him, but it's what's called "REALITY".  Not always what you want. 

Guiness can only go on what Sony gives them. Thriller gets certiified more than any other album. Guiness isn't so smart either. They still think the real number for Wrestlemania 3 was over 90,000. It wasn't. The same site that said 104 million also gave me the list I put up. Where do the other sales come from? Are those figures wrong? Prove it. Don't just hid behind "well Guiness says so". Guiness isn't the be all end all of numbers. They got the WM3 and the Pope speech wrong because the numbers they were given were fake. In the late 80s the Pope spoke to about 88,000 people in the Silverdome. Then WM3 sold 78,000 tickets and McMahon, who also said Hogan was 6'8'', doctored the number to 93,000 so he could brag about beating the Pope. A few years later the Pope people realized they had more people there and instead of calling Vince on it they just doctored the number too and made it just over 93,000. So unless it took the Catholic Church and the Silverdome 6 years to find the missing 6,000 people it doesn't make any other sense for it to say 88,000 in 87/88 and 93,000 in 94.

Now I just proved the fallibility of Guiness and I gave figures that make Thriller's 104 seem unlikeky. Show me I'm wrong.


Oh and Recognize said MJ was greater than Elvis and the Beatles. Why don't you speak on that homie?

[RECOGNIZE187]

man learn how to think and read!! i didnt say he is greater!! (even tho he is) i said he sold more records!!! coz everybody thinks the beatles sold the most or elvis...but MJ DID!!worldwide ...funny shit also that he owns their music now

[RECOGNIZE187]

unreleased track...thats gonna be on new thriller 25 album! Mike added some new vocals!!

it's nice!!

enjoy

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7eh5d7

I think the whole lead is new.  I can't prove that, but his voice sounds slightly different now than it did then, basically he had more energy then because he was younger and this vocal sounds more like his recent stuff.  Good song.  I don't know why the hell he won't do shit like this anymore, and I don't know why it takes him 5 years to touch up 4 songs.  Pfft. 

yea he added some new vocals,and stuff,,he did the new mastering!
he will do more tracks like this,im sure!
well it takes 5 years yea,but he makes more that 100 songs,but only 15 make on the album! but also before 2001,he did videos,world tour,thats why it takes more years...

[Blu Lacez]

No Sure..if these new version will do justice..
I'm HUGE Michael Jackson fan,but I'm very doubtful this will do anything..

However I'm happy to hear that he is still working, singing and writing Songs!!!
Got to admit,it must be hard for Him, when he is expected to make songs that are suppose to sell millions,and when they fall short of that 'mark' it's like he has Failed, I'm sure that  must take it's toll on Him and his craft and approach to his music!!!

Other than that, I've also enjoyed his music irrespective of whether it hits the mark or Not!!

MJ is a Legend in My Book-Always!
And That's Real!

[KURUPTION-81]

will be getting this for sure