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PrintableDarlingDiana said: marnifrances said: Can you post the link for this? I can't find it anywhere on MJJC, even with entire post searches. Thanks  In other words, there's no proof that they actually did this. | |
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Timmy84 said: DarlingDiana said: They deleted because of lack of sources.
In other words, there's no proof that they actually did this. In other words, some MJ fans with nothing better to do, cooked up some lies to flatter him. It's a sign of how dead things are in MJ-land that his fans actually sit around and dream up these stories. “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: Timmy84 said: In other words, there's no proof that they actually did this. In other words, some MJ fans with nothing better to do, cooked up some lies to flatter him. It's a sign of how dead things are in MJ-land that his fans actually sit around and dream up these stories.  Well as a MJ fan, I don't know how I would even believe that. I guess I'm not fanatic enough to do that because I just don't see how it's possible that he sold that much. But you got a point. I'm satisfied with how MJ's career has been but it's tough to deal with things when people put up some bullshit like this (not pointing at you, DarlingDiana, you were just the messenger, lol). | |
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Timmy84 said: ... I'll tell you this though: no one will sell that many records ever again.
No argument there, that's for sure. I think people who aren't old enough to really remember the early- to mid-80's can't grasp how huge MJ was then. There's just nothing to compare to these days. When Thriller was at its peak, I wonder how many 100K's per week it was selling in the U.S. alone?  "I would say that Prince's top thirty percent is great. Of that thirty percent, I'll bet the public has heard twenty percent of it." - Susan Rogers, "Hunting for Prince's Vault", BBC, 2015 |
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CandaceS said: When Thriller was at its peak, I wonder how many 100K's per week it was selling in the U.S. alone?
At one point Thriller was selling a million copies a week  | |
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CandaceS said: Timmy84 said: ... I'll tell you this though: no one will sell that many records ever again.
No argument there, that's for sure. I think people who aren't old enough to really remember the early- to mid-80's can't grasp how huge MJ was then. There's just nothing to compare to these days. When Thriller was at its peak, I wonder how many 100K's per week it was selling in the U.S. alone? Yeah like Light of Art just said, it was selling a million copies a week (C) Walter Yetnikoff in EBONY article about "Thriller". That's why that album's sales continued to get debated. Some think the actual number IS 100 million so they report it but I'm still thinking it's between 60-65 million, either way, that's still a lot of sales! | |
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If Jackson's albums sales need to be recounted in this way to show how many he has "really" sold, that does NOT mean he has the top five albums ever, cos that would mean everyone else's albums have been counted wrong, no?
So maybe the Best of the Eagles has sold more than reported, maybe Back In Black, Rumours, Bodyguard, Dark Side of the Moon, blah blah blah. In any case it's quite clearly if not a complete lie then a twisted half-truth. The main issue has to be that it doesn't matter how many copies he sold, other than from a "wow that's a LOT of sales!" point of view. The sales of a record do not make it any better or worse artistically. I have a load of albums that I adore and that most people would hate. So? I love them and that's all I care. And it certainly hasn't brought the guy happiness, so if it was me and it came down to making a great record that hardly anyone buys or one that sells 100 billion and leaves me miserable..well, there's no contest is there? This is not an exit | |
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