The King of Pop Album Hits Billboards Charts

Michael Jackson has three of the five best-selling albums in the U.S. for the second week in a row, in the aftermath of Jackson's death. Number Ones albums sold 339,000 copies and would have held at #1 on The Billboard 200 if catalog albums were eligible to compete on that chart. The Essential Michael Jackson album sold 125,000 copies and would have dropped from #2 to #5. The Billboard excludes catalog albums from the big chart on the theory that new albums need the spotlight the chart provides more than past hits do. Billboard reports that 82% of the Jackson albums sold this week were CDs. Last week, 43% of the Jackson albums sold were CDs. A total of 47 songs that feature Jackson are listed on the Hot Digital Songs chart. Sad to see it takes his death for his albums to be in the top 5. But he will always be #1 to the Millions of people who love him. I pray that people will remember Michael Jackson for the gifts that GOD gave him and remember that he was human just like every one of us.