The death of Michael Jackson has spurred fans back into music stores in Australia. He has an incredible 15 albums in the top 100 and 34 songs in the singles chart this week.
Jackson now holds down the top three spots on the ARIA chart. He has 4 albums in the Top 10, 5 in the Top 20, 7 in the Top 30 and 15 albums in the top 100 (including sales of Jacksons albums).The Michael Jackson catalogue sold 62,015 albums last week according to ARIA chart figures which accounts for 29.6% of all sales in the Top 100.
11,466 of those album units were digital downloads. That equals 18.4% of albums sales were downloads showing that more than 4 out of every 5 people who bought a Jackson album last week bought the physical CD.
On the singles chart, Jackson has an massive 34 songs in the Top 100. The singles tallied 107821 units.
‘Thriller’ was the biggest seller at number 3. It sold 11,845 units.
Nearly all Jackson’s singles sales were downloads. Of the 11,845 ‘Thriller’ sales, only 6 units were on CD.
Australian Albums sales:
1 The Essential Michael Jackson (19360)
2 #1’s (12394)
3 Thriller (10651)
7 King of Pop (7300)
19 Off The Wall (2729)
24 Dangerous (2137)
28 Bad (1957)
48 HIStory Book 1 (1103)
55 Invincible (908)
60 The Very Best of Michael Jackson with the Jackson Five (779)
66 The Jacksons - Can You Feel It, Jacksons Collection (653)
78 The Jacksons - The Essential Jacksons (560)
79 The Jacksons - The Very Best of The Jacksons and the Jackson 5 (557)
87 Bad/Dangerous (502)
99 The Jackson 5 - Gold (425)
Australian Singles sales:
3 Thriller (11,845)
6 Black Or White (8270)
7 Billie Jean (7533)
8 Man In The Mirror (6981)
13 The Way You Make Me Feel (5756)
14 Ben (5213)
16 Smooth Criminal (4966)
17 Beat It (4907)
21 Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough (4498)
22 You Are Not Alone (4315)
27 Bad (3658)
30 Heal The World (3467)
36 Rock With You (2945)
40 Remember The Time (2795)
41 Can You Feel It (2647)
43 ABC (2561)
44 Blame It On The Boogie (2393)
45 They Don’t Care About Us (2389)
52 I Want You Back (1984)
53 Wanna Be Starting Something (1980)
63 Give In To Me (1683)
64 Dirty Diana (1631)
65 You Rock My World (1611)
70 Will You Be There (1446)
71 Scream/Childhood (1375)
77 Earth Song (1321)
80 Thriller megamix (1183)
84 I’ll Be There (1040)
86 Human Nature (1007)
88 I Can’t Stop Loving You (88)
93 The Girl Is Mine (934)
95 Stranger In Moscow (906)
97 She’s Out Of My Life (887)
98 P.Y.T. (861)
