I’ve just learned something new from this article on Michael Jackson’s huge album sales in the US. “Pop Catalog” albums (albums that had fallen off the charts and were released more than 18 months ago) are not eligible for the top albums chart. Why not? I don’t know. Seems pretty stupid to me. From this [...]

Much has been said about the incredible abilities Michael Jackson had as a singer and a dancer but much less as said about his skills as a songwriter. In fact I think few people think of him as a songwriter. But the fact is he wrote many of his most well known hit songs himself. [...]

Somehow when writing my last entry about Jackson topping the Last.FM charts I forgot to check out the UK album charts (which are released much quicker than the US album charts) and sure enough Michael Jackson came in at #1 for the week with one of his “greatest hits” collections, Number Ones. In all five [...]

Each Monday Last.FM has a new chart of the most played artists for the previous week (Monday through Sunday.) Last week Michael Jackson was #67 which isn’t too bad for someone hadn’t released any new music in almost 10 years. This week Jackson climbed up 66 spots all the way up to #1 with over [...]

Michael Jackson’s Thriller is the biggest selling of all time so it’s no surprise that it’s pretty easy to find covers of each it’s nine songs on YouTube. I’m including one (particularly groovy) cover of each song below: #1 “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” by Kids Incorporated #2 “Baby Be Mine” by The Engagements (jazz.)

Wilco – Wilco on June 30 I’m not that excited about this album as I think Wilco has been getting progressively less interesting since 2001′s brilliant Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (which I still think is among the best albums of the decade.) That being said, I’m sure to give it a chance and I hope it [...]

My other favorite music site (besides Last.FM) is RateYourMusic.com which is a site where people can rate their albums which crates album rankings. I enjoy reading the reviews people write and seeing the ratings of the various albums (and the rankings.) This article is on how Michael Jackson’s six studio albums (as an adult) rate [...]

According to this story, Michael Jackson left Paul McCartney the rights to The Beatles songs in his will. The back story is that after Jackson & McCartney had collaborated on “The Girl is Mine” & “Say Say Say” Jackson had “stabbed McCartney in the back” (at least that’s how Paul saw it) by outbidding McCartney [...]

As a follow-up to my feature on the top 20 most played Michael Jackson songs on Last.FM, this is the top 10 most played MJ songs that never reached the top twenty singles in the US. Considering that 32 of his songs reached the top 20, that’s going to disqualify most his more well known [...]

From 1979 (Off The Wall) through 2001 (Invincible) – Michael Jackson only released six studio albums. And since 2001 (despite many rumors of a 7th studio album titled 7EVEN coming out) Jackson has not released anything new. Just six albums in 30 years. So what Jackson really that unproductive? According to this story, the answer [...]