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Cloudbuster said: Cinnamon234 said: The most credible figure is 6 million? Please. Where exactly are you pulling these numbers from exactly? Anyway, I don't believe the 10 million figure either but I believe it's sold more than 6 million. I've read in several places that it sold around 8 million. It had sold 5.4m by the end of 2001. Following the Martin Bashir documentary in 2003 sales picked up again in many countries (along with his other albums) and by the end of 2005 it had sold 8.5m. Another few hundred thousand sales in the last couple of years is not unreasonable considering he has one of the most successful back catalogues along with The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. This guy still shifts thousands of albums worldwide every month. Think about what you're saying. You've admitted that Invincible sold only 5.4 million by the time it first died down. You're then saying it sold an extra 3 million on the back of nothing more than a TV documentary 18 months later. When you consider that Prince's 3121 sold only 1.8 million copies worldwide, despite going No.1 in the US and making the Top 10 in numerous countries, how in the hell do you think MJ would have sold twice that after 2003, with an album which didn't even make the Top 10 in any major countries in that period? Can you give details of how it re-entered the charts in major teritories in 2003? To sell an extra 3 million it would have to have done that. After the Bashir documentary it was classic MJ albums like Thriller and Off The Wall that really benefited sales-wise, and even they didn't shift an extra 3 million on the back of it. “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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midnightmover said: Cloudbuster said: It had sold 5.4m by the end of 2001. Following the Martin Bashir documentary in 2003 sales picked up again in many countries (along with his other albums) and by the end of 2005 it had sold 8.5m. Another few hundred thousand sales in the last couple of years is not unreasonable considering he has one of the most successful back catalogues along with The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. This guy still shifts thousands of albums worldwide every month. Think about what you're saying. You've admitted that Invincible sold only 5.4 million by the time it first died down. You're then saying it sold an extra 3 million on the back of nothing more than a TV documentary 18 months later. When you consider that Prince's 3121 sold only 1.8 million copies worldwide, despite going No.1 in the US and making the Top 10 in numerous countries, how in the hell do you think MJ would have sold twice that after 2003, with an album which didn't even make the Top 10 in any major countries in that period? Can you give details of how it re-entered the charts in major teritories in 2003? To sell an extra 3 million it would have to have done that. After the Bashir documentary it was classic MJ albums like Thriller and Off The Wall that really benefited sales-wise, and even they didn't shift an extra 3 million on the back of it. I have no idea. But I do know that MJ does better sales-wise than Prince even with his newer releases. | |
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Rodya24 said: midnightmover said: Think about what you're saying. You've admitted that Invincible sold only 5.4 million by the time it first died down. You're then saying it sold an extra 3 million on the back of nothing more than a TV documentary 18 months later. When you consider that Prince's 3121 sold only 1.8 million copies worldwide, despite going No.1 in the US and making the Top 10 in numerous countries, how in the hell do you think MJ would have sold twice that after 2003, with an album which didn't even make the Top 10 in any major countries in that period? Can you give details of how it re-entered the charts in major teritories in 2003? To sell an extra 3 million it would have to have done that. After the Bashir documentary it was classic MJ albums like Thriller and Off The Wall that really benefited sales-wise, and even they didn't shift an extra 3 million on the back of it. I have no idea. But I do know that MJ does better sales-wise than Prince even with his newer releases. Not the point. “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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midnightmover said: Rodya24 said: I have no idea. But I do know that MJ does better sales-wise than Prince even with his newer releases. Not the point.  | |
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