Two days into next week`s charts, Michael Jackson back-catalogue continues to feature the biggest selling titles in the USA, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
In the first two days of sales this week, ‘Thriller’ sold another 44,000 units, ‘The Essential Michael Jackson’ sold 29,000 units and ‘Number Ones’ sold 18,000 units.The figures were for sales on June 29 and 30.
In the days following Jackson’s death, 422,000 Jackson albums were sold and more than 3 million tracks downloaded.
Radio has registered a 1735% increase in Jackson airplay with the most played songs being ‘Billie Jean’, ‘Thriller’, ‘Rock With You’, ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’ and ‘P.Y.T.’.
‘Thriller’ is Jackson’s biggest selling download.
Nielsen SoundScan measures both physical and digital sales.
Since the company started in 1991, Jackson has sold 22 million albums and 10 million digital tracks.
