Top 50 Catalogue Albums
Number Ones #32 (-3)
Top 40 Music DVDs
Live In Bucharest #14 (-1) : 163 Weeks
Number Ones #22 (+2) : 381 Weeks
Vision #34 (-5) : 42 Weeks
Soundscan Sales (Week ending October 16th)
Number Ones 3,037 (-1%)
Thriller 2,217 (+15%)
YTD SALES
Number Ones 177,647 : 4,629,724 (Oct. 16th)
The Essential 101,570 : 1,860,001 (Oct. 9th)
Thriller 100,117 : 6,016,872 ?? (Oct. 16th)
The tally of sales, as per Soundscan, for Thriller is clearly wrong as we can see from the following breakdown yby:
1991-1994 : 750,000
1995-2000 : 685,000
2001 : 248,000 (Reg. Edition 108,000 :Spec Ed. 140,000)
2002 : 163,000
2003 : 190,000
2004 : 228,715
2005 : 149,350
2006 : 69,320
2007 : 128,935
2008 : 712,443
2009 : 1,273,413 (Soundscan Jan 3-2010 : 4,598,176)
2010 : 211,398
2011 : 100,117 (Soundscan Oct 16th-2011 : 6,016,872)
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TOTAL=4,909,691
There are ~1,107,000 copies of Thriller 2001 counted twice somewhere in 2010 : this edition scanned 1,073,624 through Jan 26th - 2008.
Billboard October 29th - 2011
Top Halloween Songs
Thriller #1 (Dig. Sales 2,8 mill.)
Also mentioned Billie Jean which has sold 2,3 mill