Michael Jackson dies at 50

[Black Kitten]

^ i am going to see it. have my tickets already.

 

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[Raevaz]

Im going to see it too!! Im seeing it on Halloween, well mainly because that was the only Saturday left.. but I can't wait to see it!! I've noticed the MJ hype has calmed down a bit.. It never bothered me, but im glad to see he's finally getting the rest he deserved when he was alive..

[Bellamy]

This is it! He still can sing.

[Black Kitten]

^ yeah. the only thing that didn't change was his voice. he still sound(ed) the way he did during his prime.

[kathyc25]

I`m going 10/28! I got my tickets the minute they went on sale only to find out they have it in IMAX too now lol. Oh well I`ll get it on Blu-Ray when it comes out

[Black Kitten]

New pictures from This Is It

 

 

Smooth Criminal

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Beat It

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They Don't Care About Us

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Jam

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I Just Can't Stop Loving You

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Beat It

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Man in the Mirror

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[Bellamy]

It would have be such a show.

[Black Kitten]

Sony Succeeds with 'This Is It'

 

Source: Boxoffice.com

 

Michael Jackson fans across the country are making the concert film a success at the box office.

 

by Christian Toto

 

Michael Jackson’s This is It, the posthumous homage to the late King of Pop, grossed $2.2 million from midnight showings. According to Sony, the concert film has already exceeded that haul from Wednesday matinees.

 

Call it a pop culture hurricane or simply a belated embrace of the late star’s legacy, but whatever Sony Pictures did in the run-up to the film’s debut clearly clicked with audiences.

 

Sony Pictures deserves credit for properly massaging a pop culture phenomenon.

 

Sean Phillips, executive producer of Yahoo! Movies, says part of the studio’s successful marketing campaign for This is It boiled down to timing.

 

“The movie’s coming out so close to when he passed away. It’s tough to have more built-in publicity than that,” Phillips says.

 

And Sony wisely focused the film on Jackson’s talents, not his often disturbing personal life.

 

“It’s not going to dwell on any of his oddities or the well-known troubles in his life,” Phillips says. “He’s doing all the favorite moves we know and love, stuff the younger generation doesn’t even pull off.”

 

The studio also wisely made the movie something of an event, claiming it will only run in theaters for two weeks, “not unlike how the show was supposed to be,“ he says of the concert Jackson was preparing for in the weeks before his death.

 

Robert Marich, author of “Marketing to Moviegoers: Second Edition,” says the film’s sterling trailer whetted the appetites of long-time Jackson fans.

 

“They had a motivated fan base. So far, what they’ve shown satisfied them,” Marich says.

 

It better, since Sony ponied up $60 million to concert promoter AEG Entertainment for the rights to the rehearsal footage.

 

Marich says Sony also did a good job minimizing Jackson’s non-music headlines, focusing like a laser on his songbook.

 

“It’s an issue,” Marich says of the singer’s plastic surgery misadventures and criminal accusations. “He’s a tainted celebrity. It’s a wall that Sony had to climb.”

 

Even though the movie’s advance tickets sales have been through the proverbial roof, that doesn’t necessarily spell long-term success for This is It.

 

“I’m dubious that the advance ticket sales are projectable like some other movies like Harry Potter,” Marich says. “It’s an open question if it‘ll draw in a bigger audience.”

 

The film could fade as fast as it opened, he cautions.

 

“Concert films are like horror films. They can open strong but they traditionally don’t hold up,” he says.

 

The current hype surrounding the film could continue well past its theatrical run.

 

“The whole game isn’t cinema. It could do so-so in cinema and do gangbusters in DVD,” he says. “[sony] has every incentive to really promote it.”

 

So what about a sequel?

 

Phillips thinks the creative folks behind the movie would prefer This is It to be the final, fitting tribute to Jackson.

 

But if the film keeps on selling tickets anything is possible. It wouldn’t be the first time the death of a singing legend kicked off the start of a new phase in his or her career.

 

“Sadly you never know,” Phillips says.

 

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you guys should see it! the movie's fantastic! it made me miss Michael so much though.

 

i'm gonna watch it again this weekends!

[ladylindsey]

I saw it tonight! It definitely would have been an AMAZING show! A long one, too! Nobody wanted to dance I had to dance in my seat I really really want to get a bunch of ppl to learn Thriller and go see it and bust out. Twould be amazing. And a great tribute.

 

Michael seemed in good health, good stamina. He was funny, too! haha It was very satisfying. i think they did a great job with what they had.

[Black Kitten]

Michael Jackson's new album This Is It is expected to top the albums chart next week, with sales of over 300,000 copies according to Hits. (based on the album's 1st day sales)

 

JACKSON'S ALL ABOUT IT

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Michael Jackson Album Companion to Movie Will Debut at #1, Creed, Taylor Swift Next

October 28, 2009

 

Michael Jackson’s back…just in time to scare up some album sales for Halloween.

 

The late superstar continues to bolster the record business, with the Epic release of the companion album to This Is It hitting retail to the tune of what looks now like around 300k in first-week sales.

 

That would be more than enough for it to debut at #1, but as the film rolls out this week to record box office ($2.2 million in receipts last night), that number could well trend upward. We’ll keep an eye on it for you as we tote up the one-day sales figures from those retailers still solvent enough to keep the doors open.

 

Wind-up’s comebacking Creed celebrates the resurrection of Scott Stapp and company, with between 100-110k in sales for the aptly titled Full Circle. That will put the band co-managed by Geary/Paul in a race with Chop Shop/Atlantic’s Twilight soundtrack and Big Machine’s Taylor Swift, who this week releases a Deluxe Edition of her four-times-platinum-plus Fearless album, which looks to be in the 90-95k range.

 

J/RMG’s Rod Stewart Soulbook, a collection of R&B standards featuring duets with Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson, is headed for between 80-85k, while Jason Flom’s perennial Christmas attraction, Lava/Atlantic’s Trans-Siberian Orchestra, is in the 70-75k neighborhood for its annual dose of seasonal prog-rock cheer.

 

Other releases on tap include Brushfire/Universal Republic’s Jack Johnson (38-42k), Deutsche Grammophon’s Sting holiday collection (36-40k), Strange Music old-school rappers Tech N9ne (31-35k) and Hollywood headbangers Atreyu (28-32k), the same total as Columbia’s Train, Sire’s Tegan & Sarah and Interscope’s Wolfmother, followed by E1’s Brian McKnight (18-22k).

 

Also of note, Victory’s Between the Buried and Me (9-12k), Evil Teen’s southern rockers Gov’t Mule (8-10k) and Geffen’s Orianthi, the female teen guitarist who would’ve been featured on Michael Jackson’s ill-fated tour (3-4k).

 

The market was down 2% vs. last week, down 19% vs. same week last year and now down 14% year to date.

 

And you thought NBC had it tough having to air Jay Leno five nights a week.

 

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this is gonna be his 7th #1 album in the US. his last was 2001's Invincible.

Edited October 29, 2009 at 07:53 AM by Dhena

[kathyc25]

Saw it two days ago...unreal! This concert would have been amazing But I`m excited to get it on blu-ray when it comes out. Thanks for the pictures Dhena, are they from the album booklet? I still have to get it.

[Bellamy]

I saw it tonight. It's absolutely amazing. This is it!

[Celine=Love]

My wife and I saw it last night. Not a whole lot more I can say that's probably already been said.

 

"This is It" might've been a show to top all his other shows. The effects looked amazing. Michael seemed to still have most of his moves - he looked a little stiff on some of the songs but that could just be attributed to it being a rehearsal - and his voice was just as incredible as it has always been.

 

AND HE WAS GOING TO SING STUFF FROM "INVINCIBLE" (my favorite album!)

 

Sadly, I'm still not convinced even by the footage that he would've survived 50 concerts in such a short time. Nor was I convinced that the show should've started in such a short time frame. Celine's show had 6 months of rehearsals, Jackson's would've had 3. I believe in MJ, but even for a stellar performer as him, that's way too short of a time period to be truly ready in. Especially with MJ being such a perfectionist, and appearing as fragile as he did.

 

All things aside, I think the film did present Michael in a good light, and it went very far to cement his legacy as one the greatest entertainers, if not THE greatest entertainer, in history. Its so very tragic that we'll never get to see another masterpiece like this from him, and I must admit as a fan the film did open old wounds about his death. However, and please forgive my expression of faith here, I think that fans like myself should hold onto hope that justice will be served, God will punish those that sought to destroy Michael in Heaven if not here on Earth, and we will see and hear Michael again someday.

[Black Kitten]

Saw it two days ago...unreal! This concert would have been amazing But I`m excited to get it on blu-ray when it comes out. Thanks for the pictures Dhena, are they from the album booklet? I still have to get it.

 

no those pictures are not included on the This is It album booklet (i don't know if other versions have those, i got the 24 page booklet edition. some have like 46 so i don't know). but there are a lot of fantastic rehearsal photos on the album! quite disappointed though about the track listing.

 

My wife and I saw it last night. Not a whole lot more I can say that's probably already been said.

 

"This is It" might've been a show to top all his other shows. The effects looked amazing. Michael seemed to still have most of his moves - he looked a little stiff on some of the songs but that could just be attributed to it being a rehearsal - and his voice was just as incredible as it has always been.

 

AND HE WAS GOING TO SING STUFF FROM "INVINCIBLE" (my favorite album!)

 

Sadly, I'm still not convinced even by the footage that he would've survived 50 concerts in such a short time. Nor was I convinced that the show should've started in such a short time frame. Celine's show had 6 months of rehearsals, Jackson's would've had 3. I believe in MJ, but even for a stellar performer as him, that's way too short of a time period to be truly ready in. Especially with MJ being such a perfectionist, and appearing as fragile as he did.

 

All things aside, I think the film did present Michael in a good light, and it went very far to cement his legacy as one the greatest entertainers, if not THE greatest entertainer, in history. Its so very tragic that we'll never get to see another masterpiece like this from him, and I must admit as a fan the film did open old wounds about his death. However, and please forgive my expression of faith here, I think that fans like myself should hold onto hope that justice will be served, God will punish those that sought to destroy Michael in Heaven if not here on Earth, and we will see and hear Michael again someday.

 

his voice never sounded better. when he began to sing few lines of his song Speechless, i was literally SPEECHLESS! i could not believe how good his voice was during that rehearsal! but for some weird reason, that song didn't appear on the This is It album.

[CarrieOn]

I just saw it this weekend and I must say, it was so good. Very happy they compiled this footage and made this movie!

[kathyc25]

no those pictures are not included on the This is It album booklet (i don't know if other versions have those, i got the 24 page booklet edition. some have like 46 so i don't know). but there are a lot of fantastic rehearsal photos on the album! quite disappointed though about the track listing.

 

 

I still have yet to get it (need some money first) and when I saw the track listing I was pretty disappointed myself...they could have at least had LIVE tracks instead of tracks we already have

[Black Kitten]

^ i know! i'm quite sick and tired of having the same songs on 1295836455 different compilation albums.

 

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HitsDailyDouble sales update:

 

CHART DATE: 11/02/2009

LAST UPDATE: 11/02/2009 16:23:05

NOW IN: 36.20%

 

LW TW artist / album label power index

-- 1 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 185,727

THIS IS IT

-- 2 CREED WIND-UP 44,662

FULL CIRCLE

2 3 TIM MCGRAW CURB 44,548

SOUTHERN VOICE

5 4 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 31,652

TIME OF OUR LIVES

7 5 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 31,604

FEARLESS

1 6 TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON CHOP SHOP/ATLANTIC 24,789

SOUNDTRACK

-- 7 ROD STEWART J RECORDS/RMG 24,074

SOULBOOK

-- 8 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA LAVA/ATLANTIC 21,474

NIGHT CASTLE

11 9 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 17,654

NUMBER ONES

3 10 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 15,224

CRAZY LOVE

12 11 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 12,706

FOUNDATION

4 12 JAY-Z ROC NATION/ATLANTIC 12,265

BLUEPRINT 3

15 13 BEBE & CECE WINANS MALACO 11,303

STILL

-- 14 TECH N9NE STRANGE MUSIC 9,912

K.O.D.

33 15 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 9,809

WIDE OPEN

19 16 KISS KISS RECORDS 9,344

SONIC BOOM

22 17 MIRANDA LAMBERT COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 9,335

REVOLUTION

18 18 TOBY KEITH SHOW DOG 9,301

AMERICAN RIDE

-- 19 BRIAN MCKNIGHT E1 ENTERTAINMENT 9,175

EVOLUTION OF A MAN

6 20 BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE 8,691

E.N.D. (ENERGY NEVER DIES)

-- 21 STING DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 8,597

IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT

27 22 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE 8,559

DOIN' MY THING

13 23 BREAKING BENJAMIN HOLLYWOOD 7,846

DEAR AGONY

41 24 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 7,368

ESSENTIAL

28 25 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE 7,163

LADY ANTEBELLUM

31 26 HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE WALT DISNEY 7,132

SOUNDTRACK

-- 27 ATREYU HOLLYWOOD 7,104

CONGREGATION OF THE DAMNED

21 28 WHITNEY HOUSTON ARISTA/RMG 6,685

I LOOK TO YOU

14 29 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 6,437

FAME

17 30 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 6,288

MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL

-- 31 TRAIN COLUMBIA 6,255

SAVE ME SAN FRANCISCO

-- 32 JACK JOHNSON BRUSHFIRE/UNIV REPUBLIC 6,240

EN CONCERT

29 33 SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE HOLLYWOOD 6,230

KISS & TELL

20 34 KINGS OF LEON RCA/RMG 6,173

ONLY BY THE NIGHT

8 35 OWL CITY UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 5,498

OCEAN EYES

39 36 NOW 31 SONY MUSIC 5,272

VARIOUS ARTISTS

-- 37 WOLFMOTHER INTERSCOPE 5,044

COSMIC EGG

24 38 ALICE IN CHAINS VIRGIN 4,820

BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE

38 39 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 4,709

THRILLER

45 40 MAXWELL COLUMBIA 4,531

BLACKSUMMERS'NIGHT

-- 41 BROOKS & DUNN ARISTA NASHVILLE 4,482

#1S & THEN SOME

36 42 THREE DAYS GRACE JIVE/JLG 4,466

LIFE STARTS NOW

-- 43 CHRIS YOUNG RCA NASHVILLE 4,073

THE MAN I WANT TO BE

26 44 PARAMORE FUELED BY RAMEN 4,030

BRAND NEW EYES

23 45 DRAKE CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 3,872

SO FAR GONE

35 46 TREY SONGZ ATLANTIC 3,774

READY

-- 47 SHINEDOWN ATLANTIC 3,158

SOUND OF MADNESS

-- 48 DAUGHTRY 19/RCA/RMG 3,110

LEAVE THIS TOWN

9 49 BARBRA STREISAND COLUMBIA 3,095

LOVE IS THE ANSWER

34 50 HARRY CONNICK, JR. COLUMBIA 3,063

YOUR SONGS

 

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He is It at U.S., international box office.

 

"What just seemed like a concert movie in the beginning has turned out to be so much more."

-Rory Bruer, Sony Pictures

 

MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT TOPS WEEKEND BOX OFFICE

Racks Up $32.5 Million U.S., $103 Million Worldwide, Run Extended Through Thanksgiving

 

November 2, 2009

 

Michael Jackson’s This Is It fell short of the $250m worldwide gross some had predicted, but still racked up enough business over five days to gross $103 million worldwide and $34.5 million in the U.S.

 

Sony Pictures, which paid a reported $60 million to acquire the rights to the behind-the-scenes documentary, saw the well-reviewed movie top the weekend stateside box office with $21.3 million in 5,500 screens at 3,481 theaters, the fifth highest-grossing Halloween release and the most ever for a concert film, beating Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour, which grossed more than $70 million worldwide last year for Disney.

 

Sony also announced they would extend the movie’s two-week-long engagement through Thanksgiving, which is no surprise to most observers.

 

The strong performance of This Is It, along with the continued success of Paramount Pictures’ low-budget horror flick Paranormal Activity helped domestic box office results to run more than 5% ahead of the same weekend last year. Overall box office continues to outpace last year, with ticket sales up by nearly 7.7% and attendance up by more than 3.6%.

 

This Is It’s five-day U.S. gross of $34.5 million fell below some expectations, as did the estimated $68.5 million the movie did internationally.

 

Rory Bruer, head of world-wide distribution for Sony Pictures, insisted the documentary performed in line with studio expectations for North America and outpaced them internationally, adding that the studio first projected the movie would open domestically in the range of $30 million to $40 million.

 

Sony announced on Sunday that it would extend the limited two-week run for This Is It for three more weeks in domestic theaters. Internationally, the studio will extend the movie on a "territory-by-territory basis," likely ranging from one week to three weeks. The DVD will probably arrive in February.

 

Bruer added that the studio is so pleased with the film that it is even considering an Oscar campaign for the picture. "Michael was one of those few artists that touched everyone on the planet," he says. "What just seemed like a concert movie in the beginning has turned out to be so much more."

[Krys]

ohhh i saw it yesterday and it was great. the concert that the fans will never see *sigh* it would've been mindblowingly awesome

[Black Kitten]

This Is It album has sold almost 380,000 copies!

 

CHART DATE: 11/02/2009

LAST UPDATE: 11/03/2009 14:34:18

NOW IN: FINAL

 

LW TW artist / album label power index % change

-- 1 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 378,846 --

THIS IS IT

7 2 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 111,147 +230%

FEARLESS

-- 3 CREED WIND-UP 107,536 --

FULL CIRCLE

-- 4 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA LAVA/ATLANTIC 83,465 --

NIGHT CASTLE

-- 5 ROD STEWART J RECORDS/RMG 82,733 --

SOULBOOK

-- 6 STING DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 81,391 --

IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT

3 7 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 71,824 -22%

CRAZY LOVE

1 8 TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON CHOP SHOP/ATLANTIC 71,619 -52%

SOUNDTRACK

2 9 TIM MCGRAW CURB 63,765 -55%

SOUTHERN VOICE

-- 10 JACK JOHNSON BRUSHFIRE/UNIV REPUBLIC 42,207 --

EN CONCERT

4 11 JAY-Z ROC NATION/ATLANTIC 40,855 -3%

BLUEPRINT 3

5 12 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 32,885 -14%

TIME OF OUR LIVES

11 13 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 31,511 +24%

NUMBER ONES

-- 14 TECH N9NE STRANGE MUSIC 30,326 --

K.O.D.

6 15 BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE 29,201 -16%

E.N.D. (ENERGY NEVER DIES)

-- 16 SWELL SEASON ANTI 27,696 --

STRICT JOY

-- 17 ATREYU HOLLYWOOD 27,412 --

CONGREGATION OF THE DAMNED

-- 18 WOLFMOTHER INTERSCOPE 27,089 --

COSMIC EGG

-- 19 TRAIN COLUMBIA 27,043 --

SAVE ME SAN FRANCISCO

-- 20 BRIAN MCKNIGHT E1 ENTERTAINMENT 24,759 --

EVOLUTION OF A MAN

8 21 OWL CITY UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 24,360 -15%

OCEAN EYES

-- 22 TEGAN & SARA SIRE 22,665 --

SAINTHOOD

12 23 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 22,463 -7%

FOUNDATION

14 24 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 21,431 +3%

FAME

19 25 KISS KISS RECORDS 20,252 +2%

SONIC BOOM

15 26 BEBE & CECE WINANS MALACO 19,804 -3%

STILL

9 27 BARBRA STREISAND COLUMBIA 17,739 -33%

LOVE IS THE ANSWER

13 28 BREAKING BENJAMIN HOLLYWOOD 17,511 -18%

DEAR AGONY

38 29 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 17,179 +39%

THRILLER

20 30 KINGS OF LEON RCA/RMG 15,999 -16%

ONLY BY THE NIGHT

28 31 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE 15,773 -4%

LADY ANTEBELLUM

21 32 WHITNEY HOUSTON ARISTA/RMG 15,518 -17%

I LOOK TO YOU

17 33 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 15,239 -24%

MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL

22 34 MIRANDA LAMBERT COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 15,131 -19%

REVOLUTION

18 35 TOBY KEITH SHOW DOG 15,120 -24%

AMERICAN RIDE

41 36 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 14,839 +30%

ESSENTIAL

31 37 HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE WALT DISNEY 13,817 -13%

SOUNDTRACK

33 38 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 13,532 -3%

WIDE OPEN

24 39 ALICE IN CHAINS VIRGIN 13,498 -21%

BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE

29 40 SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE HOLLYWOOD 13,054 -20%

KISS & TELL

23 41 DRAKE CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 12,951 -27%

SO FAR GONE

26 42 PARAMORE FUELED BY RAMEN 12,760 -24%

BRAND NEW EYES

32 43 PEARL JAM MONKEYWRENCH 12,202 -18%

BACKSPACER

-- 44 BETWEEN THE BURIED & ME VICTORY 12,201 --

GREAT MISDIRECT

34 45 HARRY CONNICK, JR. COLUMBIA 11,814 -13%

YOUR SONGS

27 46 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE 11,611 -30%

DOIN' MY THING

-- 47 TRIPLE C'S DEF JAM/IDJ 11,523 --

CUSTOM CARS & CYCLES

35 48 TREY SONGZ ATLANTIC 11,507 -11%

READY

36 49 THREE DAYS GRACE JIVE/JLG 10,893 -15%

LIFE STARTS NOW

45 50 MAXWELL COLUMBIA 10,584 -3%

BLACKSUMMERS'NIGHT

 

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THIS IS HIT!!

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Creed, TSO, Rod Stewart, Sting, Jack Johnson All Bow in Top 10

 

November 3, 2009

 

Michael Jackson still has some pretty nifty dance moves.

 

The late King of Pop earns himself a rare double-play by topping both the movie box office tally and the HITS Album sales chart, as This Is It moonwalks to #1 with a total of 379k.

 

Jackson tops Big Machine’s Taylor Swift, whose deluxe edition of Fearless, with six new tracks, moves #7-2, +230% for 111k and a cumulative total north of 4.1m. Not bad for a teenager. And that total could rise considerably after her expected Grammy nominations next month.

 

Wind-up comeback rockers Creed come Full Circle with a #3 debut, followed by new chart entries from Lava/Atlantic’s holiday perennials Trans-Siberian Orchestra (#4), J Records/RMG’s Rod Stewart Soulbook (#5), Deutsche Grammophon’s Sting If on a Winter’s Night collection (#6) and Brushfire/Universal Republic’s Jack Johnson live acoustic set, En Concert (#10).

 

Reprise’s Michael Buble (#7), Chop Shop/Atlantic’s Twilight Saga: The New Moon (#8) and Curb’s Tim McGraw (#9) are the Top 10 holdovers.

 

Other Top 50 newcomers include Strange Music’s Tech N9ne (#14), Anti’s Swell Season (#16), Hollywood’s Atreyu (#17), Interscope’s Wolfmother (#18), Columbia’s Train (#19), E1 Entertainment’s Brian McKnight (#20), Sire’s Tegan & Sara (#22), Victory’s Between the Buried & Me (#44) and Def Jam/IDJ’s Triple C’s (#47).

 

Jackson’s catalog albums also showed double-digit gains, with Number Ones (#13) up 24%, Thriller (#38-29) 39% and Essential (#41-36) 30%.

 

Aside from Swift and Jackson, Interscope’s Lady Gaga (#24, +3%) and Kiss Records’ Kiss (#25, +2%) also showed sales gains.

 

Topping this week’s releases is 19/Arista Nashville country superstar Carrie Underwood, with Columbia’s Glee soundtrack, Sony Music’s Now 32, Interscope’s Weezer, RCA/RMG’s Foo Fighters and DGC’s Nirvana Live at Reading CD/DVD also on tap. The following week (11/10), it’s Bon Jovi and the Nov. 17 line-up includes Norah Jones, 50 Cent, John Mayer, Idol winner Kris Allen and Leona Lewis.

[Prince Whiskers]

Sony and another co. are vying for the rights to 70 unreleased MJ songs.

[Black Kitten]

World Albums Chart:

 

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#1 Hot Shot Debut- This Is It- Michael Jackson (708,000)

[LVCeline]

I saw the movie the other day and the man is a GENIUS. This show was going to be unbelievable. It makes you sick watching it that he's no longer around. The man just oozed talent, and his dance moved came effortlessly. He could definitely still sing! He seemed to be in great spirits and I thought he looked better than he has in years and years, if ever. He sure put everything into making this project. What a shame all that hard work couldn't be brought to fruition. I'm sure everyone was just devastated. It's just such a tragedy that he's gone. What a talent.

[celinefanonline]

Sony and another co. are vying for the rights to 70 unreleased MJ songs.

 

so does that mean we'll see the light for what more can i give?

hope so though

[Bellamy]

Today is the one year anniversary of his death.

 

How Michael Jackson Made $1 Billion Since His Death: http://www.billboard.com/features/25-stars...004099450.story

[I Love You]

I can't belive its been a year, since he passed away.

[pat200]

It really is hard to believe that it has already been one year...

[kathyc25]

I`ve been playing his music all day... I`m still really upset about it

[PriscillaBarragan]

wow a year goes by so fast..I remember when I heard of his death, i was in the mall, & every1 was talkin about it & this 1 guy said that he didnt think he was dead. We'll miss ya always Michael

[RockstarCelineDion]

If there's someone to blame about his death, we can thank Sony and AEG Incs for killing him; otherwise, RIP for a Man who was bigger than life!

[CelineDionFan710]

Im watching somthimng on him right now

about his life

It is so sad.