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MICHAEL JACKSON'S
MICHAEL IS THE #1 SELLING GLOBAL
ALBUM
The Legendary Icon Continues His Worldwide Success
Shipping
Platinum or Gold in 31 territories
New York - The King of Pop
showed once again that his music knows no borders as the Sony Music/Epic Records
release MICHAEL - thefirst album in nine years of new Michael Jackson tracks -- debuted globally at #1 in its first week of sales and shipped over 3
million units worldwide making it one of the biggest albums of
2010.
Hailed by TIME as "a carefully assembled recreation
of his finest moments as a solo artist and a reminder of why we cared about him
to begin with," MICHAELclearly has been embraced not only by his most
passionate fans in virtually every corner of the world, but a new generation
discovering his recent artistry, collaborations and poignant gems featured on MICHAEL. Wrote Neil McCormick, chief rock music critic for
the London Daily Telegraph: "It has the extraordinary confidence of a pop
classic and presages an album that may well be Jackson's best work since his
Eighties glory days."
Today's worldwide results underscore Michael
Jackson's prophetic vision in seeing the world as one territory and his fans
part of a single community, which helped endear him to countless fans and make
him the global icon and superstar he remains today. Some of the sales figures
from across the world show the following:
- MICHAELshipped Platinum in 14 territories
including the United States, UK, Germany, France (2x), Italy (3x), Spain,
Portugal, Poland, Russia, Belgium, Czech Republic (4x), Canada, Korea and the
Middle East.
- The album debuted at #1 in
Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden.
- And on top of the
# 1 album chart entry in Germany, sales of MICHAELbroke the country's 2010's first-week record with over
85,000 units sold.
- Opening week sales of more
than 113,000 in the U.K. scored the biggest opening week for a new Michael
Jackson studio album since 'Dangerous' nearly 20 years ago.
In Japan, the album is the
fourth Michael Jackson album to ever debut in the top 3, joining Bad, Thriller
and last year's "This Is It" companion album.
The album is in the top five
in Belgium (#2), US (#3), Japan (#3), the UK (#4), France (#4), Denmark (#4). In
the US, the album shipped platinum and debuted at #3 of the Billboard Album
chart with just under 230,000 copies sold.
The album went Gold in 17
territories on arrival in Japan, China, Australia, Ireland, Austria,
Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, New
Zealand, India, Philippines and Taiwan.
The album marks another release
under the new agreement between the Estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Music
announced in March that continues the label's 35-year relationship with Michael
and his music. Duringthat time, Michael sold hundreds of millions of
records, had 13 #1 singlesand released
the pop culture phenomenon "Thriller," which remains music's all-time bestselling album with more than 100
million copies sold worldwide.
Information on Michael can be found at
www.MichaelJackson.com <http://www.MichaelJackson.com> .
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