As expected, Michael Jackson is slaying the charts this week so I’m back to update you guys on everything.
Let’s start with YouTube stats as fans are trying extremely hard to get Billie Jean to 1 billion views.
As I mentioned before it is kind of impossible to get it to 1 billion views in 3 weeks as we’re 184 million views away BUT let’s not give up hope because 2021 marks the 50 anniversary of Michaels solo carrier!! Only realised this the other day watching the 30th anniversary concert… anyway, my point here is that we should honour that with Billie Jean having 1 billion views/streams on all platforms, not just YouTube.
Most watched short films on YouTube in past 24 hours:
Smooth Criminal – 586,502 (total – 387,630,537)
Billie Jean – 556,397 (total – 816,460,777)
Beat It – 354,713 (total – 615,461,786)
Almost forgot to mention that official Michael Jackson YouTube channel surpassed 18 million subscribers.
Let’s move on to iTunes charts. Bear in mind that the list only includes Top 100 chart positions.
Number Ones:
#6 Niger
#7 Moldova
#10 Azerbaijan
#12 Sri Lanka
#13 Mongolia
#15 Kenya
#16 United Arab Emirates
#17 Slovenia
#17 Turkmenistan
#17 Uzbekistan
#18 Kazakhstan
#18 Laos
#23 Uganda
#24 Hungary
#24 Trinidad and Tobago
#25 Cape Verde
#27 Belarus
#28 El Salvador
#28 Nicaragua
#29 Colombia
#29 Costa Rica
#29 Jordan
#30 Lebanon
#31 Armenia
#33 Chile
#36 Qatar
#37 Bahrain
#41 Barbados
#41 Lithuania
#41 Ukraine
#42 Estonia
#43 Bolivia
#43 Cyprus
#43 Slovakia
#44 Romania
#44 Venezuela
#45 Panama
#45 Saudi Arabia
#46 Mauritius
#47 Bermuda
#47 Paraguay
#50 Ecuador
#50 Poland
#51 Botswana
#52 Malaysia
#52 Mozambique
#52 Zimbabwe
#53 Latvia
#55 Canada
#55 Peru
#56 Czech Republic
#56 Honduras
#61 Argentina
#63 Germany
#63 Singapore
#65 British Virgin Islands
#67 Oman
#68 Israel
#68 New Zealand
#69 Spain
#73 Guatemala
#78 Egypt
#80 Philippines
#85 Nigeria
#90 Indonesia
#95 Hong Kong
#100 Cayman Islands
Impressive isn’t it?
The Essential Michael Jackson:
#18 Uzbekistan
#27 Oman
#45 Barbados
#65 United Arab Emirates
#69 India
#75 Belgium
#75 Lebanon
#96 Bulgaria
#99 Burkina Faso
Michael Jackson’s This Is It
#36 Luxembourg
#62 Belgium
#88 Norway
#93 Switzerland
#94 Burkina Faso
XSCAPE:
#10 Uzbekistan
#17 Azerbaijan
#20 Armenia
#21 Cape Verde
#49 Grenada
#61 Oman
#92 Mauritius
#97 Belarus
#99 Bahrain
HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I:
#30 Armenia
#37 Bolivia
#57 El Salvador
#72 Egypt
#94 Azerbaijan
Thriller:
#24 Niger
#44 Uganda
#80 Dominica
#91 Netherlands
#95 Burkina Faso
Dangerous:
#9 Turkmenistan
#75 Kyrgyzstan
Bad:
#5 Anguilla
#92 Burkina Faso
I wish we had sales numbers for Number Ones at least because it does so well around the world.
Moving on to the Official UK Charts. Number Ones is no exception here either. It actually entered Top 40 this week.
UK Official Albums Chart Top 100:
Number Ones – #39 (#44 last week)
UK Official Albums Streaming Chart Top 100:
Number Ones – #25 (#31 last week)
Now, in the US Number Ones is nowhere to be seen but The Essential Michael Jackson & Thriller never actually leaves the Billboard charts.
Billboard 200:
The Essential Michael Jackson – #118 – (#193 last week)
Thriller – #133 – (#154 last week)
Top Catalog Albums:
The Essential Michael Jackson #28 (re)
Thriller – #37 (#44 last week)
US Vinyl Albums:
Thriller – #14 (last week #22)
No major updates on Spotify this week, other than surpassing 15 million followers on the platform… but I’m just going to update you guys on album stream numbers anyway.
Most streamed albums on Spotify:
Thriller – 1,898,606,595
Bad – 1,197,480,958
Off the Wall – 540,039,571
Dangerous – 502,501,921
XSCAPE – 482,929,998
HIStory – 365,035,208
MICHAEL – 132,050,87
Invincible – 131,845,231
Got to Be There – 94,305,928
Blood on The Dance Floor – 62,289,515
Ben – 47,903,038
(Immortal – 38,991,873)
Forever, Michael – 17,959,372
Music & Me – 10,894,027
Thank you for reading and make sure you come back next Saturday for more updates 🙂
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