USA

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Sales For The Week Ending February 27th, 2005/Billboard Issue Date: March 12th, 2005.

Rank, Title, Sales This Week, +/- percentage

MICHAEL JACKSON - 16,978 units
(Does not include sales for The Ultimate Collection (4 CD/1 DVD), single sales, certain music DVD titles such as The One, Dangerous: The Short Films, etc., material recorded with The Jacksons, and Motown era solo and Jackson 5 albums.)

1. Number Ones: 5,648 (-4%)
2. Thriller: 4,077 (-7%)
3. Number Ones (DVD): 2,657 (-3%)
4. Greatest Hits: HIStory Vol. 1: 1,607 (-2%)
5. Off the Wall: 802 (861) (-7%)
6. Greatest Hits: HIStory (DVD): 534 (-14%)
7. Bad: 416 (+39%)
8. HIStory on Film- Vol. 2 (DVD): 397 (-11%)
9. Dangerous: 348 (+25%)
10. Invincible: 210 (-7%)
11. HIStory: Past, Present, and Future, Book I (2-CD): 210 (+53%)
12. Blood on the Dance Floor: 72 (+9%)


MADONNA - 6,653 units

1. The Immaculate Collection: 3,139 (-10%)
2. GHV2: 439 (-15%)
3. The Immaculate Collection (Video): 282 (-18%)
4. Something to Remember: 260 (-)
5. Ray of Light: 255 (+17%)
6. Like a Virgin: 217 (-21%)
7. Remixed & Revisited: 183 (-30%)
8. American Life: 174 (-24%)
9. True Blue: 170 (-2%)
10. Madonna: 168 (+21%)
11. Music: 146 (-25%)
12. The Video Collection 93:99: 127 (-14%)
13. You Can Dance: 117 (-)
14. Erotica: 111 (-5%)
15. Drowned World Tour 2001: 106 (-8%)
16. Like a Prayer: 102 (-25%)
17. Bedtime Stories: 100 (+15%)
18. Girlie Show: Live Down Under: 99 (-9%)
19. Ciao, Italia: Live From Italy: 93 (-4%)
20. Evita: 70 (-17%)
21. Love Profusion: 67 (-32%)
22. Me Against the Music: 67 (-29%)
23. I'm Breathless: 58 (+7%)
24. Hollywood: 57 (-11%)
25. American Life (Single): 46 (+7%

CHER - 8,295 units
(exlcuding live Farewell Tour CD)

1. Very Best of Cher: 4,428 (-9%)
2. Very Best of Cher (Video): 1,334 (-18%)
3. Very Best of Cher (Deluxe): 510 (-15%)
4. Farewell Tour (Video): 473 (-23%)
5. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (2004 edition): 459 (-13%)
6. If I Could Turn Back Time- Cher’s GH: 288 (-20%)
7. Heart of Stone: 191 (-4%)
8. Half Breed: 162 (+1%)
9. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (first edition): 140 (-16%)
10. Believe: 129 (-12%)
11. Live in Concert (video, 1999): 122 (-22%)
12. Living Proof: 38 (-19%)
13. Love Hurts: 21 (-13%)

WHITNEY HOUSTON - 2,679 units

1. The Greatest Hits (Album): 1,151 (-7%)
2. The Bodyguard: 483 (-25%)
3. The Greatest Hits (Video): 211 (+8%)
4. The Preacher's Wife: 181 (-3%)
5. Whitney Houston: 165 (-31%)
6. Whitney: 159 (-1%)
7. My Love is Your Love (Album): 122 (-25%)
8. Just Whitney: 121 (-30%)
9. The Star Spangled Banner: 41 (-36%)
10. I'm Your Baby Tonight (Album): 21 (+91%)
11. It’s Not Right But It’s Okay: 10 (+43%)
12. One Wish: 6 (-33%)
13. My Love is Your Life (single): 8 (+100%)

JANET JACKSON - 4,457 units

1. Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (album): 928 (-4%)
2. Damita Jo: 764 (-12%)
3. janet.: 662 (-6%)
4. From janet. To Damita Jo: 493 (-23%)
5. The Velvet Rope: 421 (-13%)
6. All For You (album): 402 (-8%)
7. Rhythm Nation: 243 (-18%)
8. Control: 216 (-10%)
9. Live in Hawaii (DVD/video): 205 (-)
10. All For You (DVD): 65 (-3%)
11. Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (DVD/video): 58 (+9%)

MARIAH CAREY - 5,464 units
(excluding Live at MSG DVD)

1. Greatest Hits- 2,015 (-13%)
2. #1's- 1,329 (-23%)
3. Remixes- 570 (-4%)
4. Butterfly- 218 (-26%)
5. Music Box- 217 (-21%)
6. Charmbracelet- 211 (-16%)
7. #1's (Video): 176 (+9%)
8. Glitter- 144 (-11%)
9. Daydream- 137 (-2%)
10. Around the World (Video)- 125 (+4%)
11. Mariah Carey- 113 (-22%)
12. Rainbow- 103 (-36%)
13. Through the Rain- 61 (-32%)
14. Emotions: 24 (-51%)
15. MTV Unplugged- 21 (+17%)

What's up with the platinum certification? Mjjsource says number ones went platinum. Has it shown that in billboard?

fucking C H E R

lilgish said:

Hey lilgish - The album has shipped platinum although Sony hasn't applied for a recertification yet. Anything with a * means that the shipment information was compiled independently.

I wonder if Mikes back catalogue will sell ever so slightly more now the trial has properly started?

amit1234 said:

Tell them to already! Use your influence.

jayaredee said:

???

Cher's been touring America for the past three years. Let the lady enjoy her album sales. They're most certainly deserved, dontcha think?

lilgish said:

LOL.

No need to worry. It will happen eventually. Even Mariah Carey and George Michael (who both departed Sony Music on bad terms) had albums in their catalog recertified long after they left.

In Michael's case, it's not a matter of if his catalog will be recertified but when.
[Edited 3/3/05 20:15pm]

amit1234 said:

Im only kidding, it's just simply amazing that Cher is second to MJ amongst these big artists.

and it's a shame her Living Proof album doesn't sell too well

jayaredee said:

I totally agree. IMO, Living Proof is much better than Believe and deserved to be alot more successful than it was. I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles for some artist's when they try to follow up a wildly successful album with a "Pt. 2".