MJ Chart Data Week of August 29, 2020

The most successful artist of all time would’ve turned 62 today ❤️️

Every Saturday I get in my head about writing for MJVibe & then I realise I’m writing about Michael freaking Jackson so of course there’s always endless stuff I can cover.

Let’s start with the fact that Smooth Criminal just surpassed 400 million views on YouTube! See it yourself:

This is his fifth short film to achieve this.

At this point Smooth Criminal is doing so well, it might take over Billie Jean.

So, here’s the most viewed short films in the past 24hrs:

Smooth Criminal – 616,972 views.
Billie Jean – 582,200 views.
They Don’t Care About Us – 414,168 views.
Beat It – 389,756 views.

Top 5 Most Viewed Short Films of The Month:

Smooth Criminal – 16,100,000 million.
Billie Jean – 14,900,000 million.
They Don’t Care … – 9,600,000 million.
Beat It – 9,100,000 million.
Thriller – 7,000,000 million.

I completely forgot to do Spotify update last week so here it is.

The most streamed albums by Michael Jackson on Spotify:

Thriller – 1,924,893,554 billion.
Bad – 1,214,909,864 billion.
Off the Wall – 548,380,082 million.
Dangerous – 509,739,501 million.
Xscape – 486,417,375 million.
HIStory – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE – BOOK I – 370,484,437 million.
Invincible – 133,699,114 million.
MICHAEL – 132,965,540 million.
Got to Be There – 95,412,720 million.
BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR/ HIStory in The Mix – 63,077,410 million.
Ben – 48,543,369 million.
Forever, Michael – 18,160,03 million.
Music & Me – 11,002,152 million.

Here’s the playlist for the most streamed tracks by MJ on Spotify. They’re in order & It gets updated monthly.
SPOTIFY

Time for some weekly chart updates.

Billiboard:

Billboard 200:

Thriller – #135
The Essential Michael Jackson – #194

US Vinyl Albums:

Thriller – #20

Top Catalog Albums:

Thriller – #36

UK Official Charts:

UK Official Albums Chart Top 100:

Number Ones – #37

UK Official Albums Streaming Chart Top 100:

Number Ones – #25

That’s it for today & now I gotta get ready to meet my friends at the o2 arena to see Michaels secret room they built in 2009 😁

I’ll be back next Saturday!

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