Top of the charts again
Is anyone surprised? From this LA Times story:
"This is simply unprecedented," said Bill Carr, vice president of music and video at Amazon.com Inc., which sold out of Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 CDs minutes after news broke that the pop star had died Thursday. "We've seen the death of Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra and many other artists, but none of them compare to what we're witnessing today."
As of Friday afternoon, Jackson-related DVDs filled the top seven spots in Amazon's "Bestsellers in Movies & TV" list and Jackson albums accounted for all 10 of the "Bestsellers in Music" list, with the 25th-anniversary edition of "Thriller" taking the No. 1 spot, Carr said.
"In the last 24 hours, we've actually sold more Michael Jackson albums in our MP3 and CD stores than we have in the 11 years since the launch of our music business," he said.
And they aren't kidding, the charts on Amazon are all MJ. Then again, I've been rediscovering how cool some of his videos were. And Brian suggested I go look up Captain Eo to see if I remember it from Disneyland, I told him it sounded familiar. Oh my, Keegan would love that.
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i.e. when was the last time so many people were talking about MJ? not this much since the 80's..