Michael Jackson is at #1 on the UK album charts for the 7th straight week since his death on June 25 with his greatest hits compilation The Essential Michael Jackson. He had a total of 6 albums (either solo or with the Jackson 5) in the UK top 40 charts including three studio albums: 1987′s [...]

For the 5th week out of the 6 weeks since his death Michael Jackson sold more albums than anyone else in the US (he was only 2nd one week.) MJ’s greatest hits compilation Number Ones sold 114K copies for the week, besting the debut week for Leso’s Way by Fabulous which sold 99K copies to [...]

It’s almost been a full decade since the ’90s ended which means ’90s nostalgia ought begin kicking into high gear sometime soon. Here’s my bit to get that started. A look at the 10 most popular songs from the ’90s based on most Last.FM listeners over the past week. 01 – Oasis – “Wonderwall” – [...]

The new UK album charts are out today and for the 6th straight week (every week since his death) Michael Jackson had the top selling album. In all there were 7 MJ/Jackson 5 albums on the UK top 40 albums chart this week: #01 The Essential Michael Jackson #08 Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5: [...]

Last week Michael Jackson’s three week streak at the top of the US album charts was ended when former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry knocked him off by selling 269K copies of Leave This Town in it’s debut week. But this week, Jackson is back at #1 with his greatest hits collection, Number Ones. Jackson [...]

Michael Jackson topped the UK album charts for the 5th straight week with the greatest hits collection The Essential Michael Jackson. No other album has topped the UK album chart for so long this year. Jackson didn’t just get the top spot, he also had five of the top 20 and ten of the top [...]

The new Billboard 200 chart is out today and former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry’s band Daughtry went to #1 by selling 269,000 copies of their second album Leave This Town. Are you farking kidding me? Is this what passes for “rock n roll” to the average American in 2009? The closest thing to good [...]

I’ve come across a pretty cool website (ForOrchestra.com) where pop/rock songs are arranged for orchestra. A full orchestra is recorded playing the arrangement and a video is made. It’s all pretty grand. I’ve picked out Radiohead’s “Reckoner” and Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” to showcase here but there are many more songs on the site. Michael [...]

Check out this Norwegian Recycling mash-up of various Michael Jackson tunes (and some non MJ stuff) all mixed with the instrumental track for his Thriller hit “Billie Jean.” Click Here For The Michael Jackson Amazon.com Store (all of his albums and much more.)

I was really expecting these ridiculous sales numbers that Jackson has been putting up since his death to slow down this week but no: There were 1.1 million Michael Jackson albums bought in the US last week, even more than the huge total of the previous week (800,000.) This increase in sales is probably somewhat [...]