USA

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Sales For The Week Ending July 17th, 2005/Billboard Issue Date: July 30rd, 2005.

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

MICHAEL JACKSON - 14,036 units
(Does not include sales for The Ultimate Collection (4 CD/1 DVD), single sales, certain music DVD titles (eg. The One, Dangerous: The Short Films, etc.), material recorded with The Jacksons, and Motown era solo and Jackson 5 albums. Weekly sales information for those titles is not available.)

1. Number Ones: 5,029 (5,290) (-5%) (#198 on Billboard 200, 31 weeks on the chart, 940,138 units sold.)
2. Number Ones (Video): 3,023 (3,046) (-1%) (Move up 17-15 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart, 69 weeks on the chart.)
3. Thriller: 2,364 (2,575) (-8%) (Top 20 on Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Chart.)
4. Greatest Hits: HIStory Vol. 1: 1,225 (1,300) (-6%)
5. Off the Wall: 809 (791) (+2%)
6. Greatest Hits: HIStory (Video): 425 (473) (-10%)
7. HIStory on Film - Vol. 2 (Video): 352 (364) (-3%)
8. Bad: 291 (343) (-15%)
9. Dangerous: 241 (315) (-23.5%)
10. Invincible: 128 (126) (+2%)
11. HIStory: Past, Present, and Future, Book I (2-CD): 124 (141) (-12%)
12. Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix: 27 (33) (-18%)


MADONNA - 5,189 units

1. The Immaculate Collection: 2,469 (-)
2. GHV2: 386 (+5%)
3. Like A Virgin: 229 (-12%)
4. Ray Of Light: 226 (-1%)
5. Something To Remember: 205 (-10%)
6. The Immaculate Collection (Video): 197 (+9%)
7. True Blue: 165 (+29%)
8. Madonna: 151 (+8%)
9. Remixed & Revisited: 146 (+5%)
10. Music: 141 (+15%)
11. American Life: 123 (-20%)
12. The Video Collection 93:99 (Video): 122 (+26%)
13. Like a Prayer: 106 (-14%)
14. You Can Dance: 77 (+7%)
15. Erotica: 76 (-1%)
16. Drowned World Tour 2001 (Video): 70 (-8%)
17. Girlie Show: Live Down Under (Video): 62 (-18%)
18. Ciao, Italia: Live From Italy (Video): 55 (-17%)
19. Bedtime Stories: 52 (-5%)
20. Me Against the Music: 52 (+11%)
21. Evita: 40 (+3%)
22. I'm Breathless: 39 (+44%)


CHER - 5,888 units

1. The Very Best of Cher (2 CD): 1,448 (-1%)
2. The Farewell Tour (Video): 1,166 (-9%)
3. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (first edition): 1,013 (+56%)
4. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (2004 edition): 650 (+36%)
5. The Very Best of Cher (Video): 614 (-3%)
6. The Very Best of Cher (Deluxe): 336 (-11%)
7. If I Could Turn Back Time- Cher’s GH: 220 (-4%)
8. Heart of Stone: 146 (+6%)
9. Half Breed: 115 (-7%)
10. Believe: 105 (-7%)
11. Live in Concert (Video, 1999): 75 (-)


WHITNEY HOUSTON - 2,002 units

1. The Greatest Hits (2 CD): 916 (+4%)
2. The Bodyguard: 330 (+29%)
3. The Greatest Hits (Video): 216 (-18%)
4. Whitney Houston: 154 (+3%)
5. The Preacher's Wife: 107 (+34%)
6. Whitney: 106 (-9%)
7. Just Whitney: 66 (+10%)
8. My Love is Your Love (Album): 64 (-25%)
9. The Star Spangled Banner: 25 (-47%)
10. It’s Not Right But it’s Okay: 8 (-27%)
11. I'm Your Baby Tonight (Album): 6 (+200%)
12. One Wish: 4 (-20%)


JANET JACKSON - 2,731 units

1. Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (album): 660 (+1%)
2. Damita Jo: 368 (+11%)
3. janet.: 357 (+13%)
4. From janet. To Damita Jo: 313 (+5%)
5. Rhythm Nation: 258 (-21%)
6. The Velvet Rope: 211 (+9%)
7. Control: 173 (-20%)
8. All For You (album): 190 (+3%)
9. Live in Hawaii (Video): 141 (-4%)
10. All For You (CD/DVD): 40 (+90%)
11. Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (Video): 20 (-43%)


MARIAH CAREY - 107,116 units (7,616 units excluding sales of The Emancipation Of Mimi)
(Excluding Live At Madison Square Garden DVD and digital single sales)

1. The Emancipation of Mimi: 99,500 (-14%)
2. Greatest Hits (2 CD): 3,433 (-7%)
3. #1s: 1,851 (-15%)
4. Remixes (2 CD): 532 (-16%)
5. Charmbracelet: 314 (+3%)
6. Butterfly: 229 (+6%)
7. Music Box: 223 (+1%)
8. #1s (Video): 199 (-19%)
9. Glitter: 194 (-6%)
10. Daydream: 167 (-10%)
11. Around the World (Video): 136 (+15%)
12. Rainbow: 129 (-9%)
13. Mariah Carey: 94 (-29%)
14. Through the Rain: 70 (-3%)
15. MTV Unplugged- 23 (-15%)
16. Emotions: 22 (-52%)
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[Edited 7/25/05 19:34pm]

I know this is the non-Prince forum, but can you show his numbers?

I wish I had them Candace!

The numbers dont really matter


MJ makes maybe $2 per album making $28k per week isnt too much to think about
madonna makes $2/album
the other might make maybe $1/album


the money is pretty insignificant

What about publishing? If an artist writes most of their material and own their publishing (like in MJ's case), they bag a significant percentage of a CD's sale.

Plus, let's remember, this is just one week in one country. If you add it up over time, that amounts to quite alot IMO.

asg said:

MJ has the highest royalty rate in music, he make half on each sale. it's about 4 dollars and some change.
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I dont know how u got the $4 royalty rate but i have never seen $4 mentioned anywhere all i know he had $2 rate

The highest in history was garth brooks he was gettin $4-$5 in the mid 90s and he was sellin 10 million albums just like that.

publishing for MJ has he ever written a hit song i dont know

Mj does well in europe but remeber what is 28k or 100k per week to MJ
his spending is so much outta wack he could care less

lilgish said:

asg said:

and you want me to take your numbers seriously

asg said:

the no1 songs he wrote:

1) Dont Stop Till You Get Enough
2) Billie Jean
3) Beat It
4) I Just Can't Stop Loving You
5) Bad
6) The Way You Make Me Feel
7) Dirty Diana
6) Black Or White
7) Earth Song
8) Blood On The Dance Floor(co-wrote)

The list dont include other hits he wrote just number ones

Michael wrote practically every song on the 'Number Ones' album.

lilgish said:

47%.

what happened to MJs latest 2 cd compilation it is #2 in the UK but i dont see it on the top 50 just released today.

The #50 album sold only 18.5k copies.

http://www.hitsdailydoubl...lescht.cgi
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asg said:

it's not gonna sell here, so how many songs has he written ?????

I have always noticed when a singer becomes big he usually becomes the cowriter
with some big name writers. Big stars always get co writing credits regardless.

Here is the list
Alot of songs r written by Teddy Riley

http://www.ascap.com/ace/...30&start=1

LightOfArt said:

So? He wrote the vast majority of the songs of Bad, Dangerous and HIStory alone. Invincible was the exception - actually, Teddy Riley has been going around trying to take credit for 'Whatever Happens' when Geoffery Williams was the main writer on that one.

Anyway, fuck credits. MJ has a unique stamp. I can tell something written solely by him without looking at the song credits, and it's not like he has any particular formula. They just ooze his style.

asg said:

yeah but most of his biggest hits are written by MJ alone.So yeah he gets more that $2

And MJ always give credit to people even if unnecessary.

Blood On The Dance Floor for example is credited to MJ and Teddy Riley. When infact Teddy Riley only came up with a title and MJ wrote the song around the title




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