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Re: Michael Jackson Discussion
Itchy GTR wrote:G&R folks, hey anything is possible. It can change within an hour from now or a day or two. Who know.
I do have some respect for M.J.
For me I thought he was an amasing talent when he was a kid with the J5.
I really didn't get into his solo career. Although I did admire the bass-line from Billy Jean. : )I cannot believe that you actually think GN'R could pull something like this off.
Dude, seriously... walk away from the computer, go outside, walk around, take a couple month break from the GN'R songs, get laid, do something.
If you believe this means "anything can happen", your as stuck in your own world away from reality as Michael Jackson was at Neverland.
It's NEVER GONNA FRICKIN' HAPPEN. CD ain't coming back. It is dead, dead, dead.
And as for the death of any GN'R members, if Axl Rose were to die tomorrow, god forbid, other then spending 12 hours on the front page of Yahoo!, it would be a blip on the radar. None of their albums would even chart imo.
Axlin08 - how's it going??? With all due respect did you actually read what I wrote?
I was referring to the sales of previous M.J. lps & cds.
As far as G&R I already know why the cd is being prevented from being a successful cd. It's the lack of musicians to go and tour the cd as a band that are not just hired guns but who support Axl as a friend and believe in themselves. You have a killer cd of songs but three or four different guitarists. All Axl needs is one killer lead-guitarist who can do it all.
In fact I sent an e-mail to Axl's management company and offered my services. I told them to forward the e-mail to Axl and give me a call. (I even gave them my personal number.) I said don't dismiss this cd. Axl needs a number one lead-guitarist to stand side by side him.
I'll tell you this (and I know they are not going to call me anyway because I'm an unknown) if they do call me and I audition I'm going to get the part. I'm confident enough to handle any past or present lead-guitarists parts with a blink of my eye. Plus I would start writing with Axl on the next cd which would be a cd that is strictly high-profile hard rock like the first album. NoI would cut out all the fancy production this time and record bare bones in your face fire-blues-guitar that would make your teeth melt right out of your mouth into your beer!!!!
Seriously!!! 
:lol:
Karma.
Re: Michael Jackson Discussion
http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=8701
Michael Jackson Albums Continue To Sell
by Paul Cashmere - July 4 2009
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.
In the first two days of the week, Jackson albums accounted for 70& of sales of top 200 selling albums.
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.
Re: Michael Jackson Discussion
http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=8703
Michael Jackson Dominates Australian Chart
by Paul Cashmere - July 5 2009
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)
Re: Michael Jackson Discussion
Just to add to that
Michael Jackson Albums Sales Hit1.1 Million In USA
by Paul Cashmere - July 15 2009
If you ever needed any proof that Michael Jackson deserved his King of Pop title here it is. Jackson album sales were 1.1 million in the last week in the USA.
Nielsen SoundScan, the company that keeps tabs on music sales, registered a combined total of around 10,000 Jackson album units in the week prior to his death.
In the four days following his death, Jackson album sales were 422,000. In the first full week of sales of his death he sold 800,000 albums. Last week, the graph went past the million mark.
In the past 2 ½ weeks, Jackson album sales have exceeded 2.3 million.
Last weeks biggest seller according to Nielsen Soundscan was ‘#1’s’ (349,000), followed by ‘Thriller’ (264,000) followed by ‘The Essential Michael Jackson’ (148,000).
Billboard reports that ‘Off The Wall’ sold 107,000 units last week, ‘Bad’ did 97,000 and ‘Dangerous’ sold 67,000.
Fans have bought 1.8 million physical albums since Michael’s death and 491,000 digital albums.
Nielsen SoundScan also tracks digital sales across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
In the past 2 ½ weeks Jackson has sold 8.1 million digital tracks.
The most popular download is ‘Man In The Mirror’ (628,000) followed by ‘Billie Jean’ (557,000) followed by ‘Thriller’ (544,000).
In Billboards Top Pop Catalog Albums Chart this week, the Top 12 albums are all Jackson albums.
1) Michael Jackson "Number Ones"
2) Michael Jackson "The Essential Michael Jackson"
3) Michael Jackson "Thriller"
4) Michael Jackson "Off The Wall"
5) Michael Jackson "Bad"
6) Michael Jackson "Dangerous"
7) Jackson 5 "The Ultimate Collection"
8) Jackson 5 "The Best of Jackson 5: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection"
9) Michael Jackson "Greatest Hits: HIStory ? Volume 1"
10) Michael Jackson "HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book 1"
11) Michael Jackson "Invincible"
12) Michael Jackson "The Ultimate Collection"
