MJ Chart Data Week of August 22, 2020

Michael Jackson was, and still is, the King of Pop for a reason. Out of his 10 solo studio albums, 5 is on the best-selling albums of all-time list.

So, when some random people that have nothing to do with his success & take credit for it, just doesn’t feel right. The estate Michael Jackson, yes, I’m talking about you.

Anyway, now that I got that out of way let’s talk about charts.

Starting with YouTube streams because fans are not giving up on Billie Jean hitting 1 billion by Michaels birthday.

As promising yesterdays & todays streaming numbers look (Thanks to BTS fans) it’s still not going to happen as you’d need 25 million views a day.

Most viewed short films by Michael Jackson on YouTube in past 24 hours:

Billie Jean – 931,834 views 👑

Smooth Criminal – 669,575 views.

They Don’t Care… – 425,318 views

Beat It – 364,739 views.

Top 10 most popular short films by Michael Jackson on YouTube:

Billie Jean – 823,940,868 views.
They Don’t Care About Us – 729,007,003 views.
Thriller – 680,228,685 views.
Beat It – 619,990,140 views.
Smooth Criminal – 396,030,241 views.
Remember the Time – 373,948,798 views.
The Way You Make Me Feel – 353,684,145 views.
Black or White – 337,381,997 views.
Bad – 331,964,606 views.
Love Never Felt So Good with JT – 283,879,293 views.

The fact that They Don’t Care About Us is the second most popular short film on YouTube and not something from Thriller makes me happy because I feel like it would make Michael happy & proud. #HIStory25

Michaels albums are doing amazing on iTunes worldwide as usual. The estate somehow fails to acknowledge Michaels worldwide success… As they always seem to be focusing on America.

Top 100 albums on iTunes:

Number Ones
#3 Mongolia
#8 Azerbaijan
#8 Moldova
#8 Niger
#9 Kazakhstan
#10 Sri Lanka
#13 Uzbekistan
#15 Laos
#17 Kenya
#17 Turkmenistan
#20 Cape Verde
#22 Armenia
#24 Trinidad and Tobago
#26 Belarus
#26 El Salvador
#29 Lebanon
#29 Qatar
#30 Hungary
#31 Nicaragua
#32 Costa Rica
#32 Jordan
#32 Uganda
#35 Bahrain
#36 Lithuania
#38 Barbados
#40 Colombia
#40 Mozambique
#42 Romania
#43 Bermuda
#43 Ukraine
#44 Chile
#44 Estonia
#44 Venezuela
#45 Cyprus
#45 Panama
#47 Poland
#49 Bolivia
#50 Ecuador
#50 Saudi Arabia
#51 Honduras
#52 Mauritius
#52 Paraguay
#55 Czech Republic
#56 Peru
#56 Zimbabwe
#57 Botswana
#57 Latvia
#58 Oman
#60 British Virgin Islands
#62 Israel
#64 Argentina
#70 Guatemala
#70 Philippines
#92 Egypt
#93 Singapore
#94 Cayman Islands
#94 Nigeria

The Essential Michael Jackson
#14 Uzbekistan
#22 Oman
#43 Barbados
#69 India
#70 United Arab Emirates
#75 Lebanon

Thriller
#26 Niger
#29 South Africa
#56 Uganda
#84 Dominica
#99 Burkina Faso

Michael Jackson’s This Is It
#63 Luxembourg
#96 Greece
#98 Burkina Faso
#98 Norway

XSCAPE
#6 Uzbekistan
#14 Armenia
#16 Azerbaijan
#16 Cape Verde
#22 Mongolia
#53 Oman
#54 Grenada
#61 Azerbaijan
#83 Bahrain
#90 Belarus
#96 Mauritius

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
#7 Fiji
#21 Armenia
#44 Bolivia
#97 Azerbaijan

Dangerous
#9 Turkmenistan
#78 Kyrgyzstan
#87 Bahrain

Number Ones is doing amazing in the UK as usual & The essential Michael Jackson alongside Thriller remains the US favourites.

UK Official Albums Chart Top 100

Number Ones – #39

UK Official Albums Streaming Chart Top 100:

Number Ones – #25

Billboard:

Top Catalog Albums:
The Essential Michael Jackson – #30
Thriller – #36

Billboard 200:
The Essential Michael Jackson – #121
Thriller – #136

US Vinyl Albums:
Thriller – #19

Thank you for reading and if you guys have any suggestions on countries I should cover let me know on Twitter @MJChartData.

I’ll be back with more next week

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