Michael Jackson set for album chart number one

An Fear Aniar

This:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/michael-jackson-set-for-album-chart-number-one-416540.html

I don't understand this phenomenon. Sometimes I just don't understand people at all.


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m5ex9oqjawdg2i

He is dead, people miss him, people will buy his album. I guarantee that he will make more money dead than alive

PirateShampoo

Oh joy, im already sick of all his poxy songs on the radio.

Wertz

I was in about 4 different music stores in Newry yesterday...in every one of them Jacko was on repeat play and in those where his last hits album was on special offer, the racks were already empty.
Wouldn't be a fan at all tbh, but there's no denying his huge influence on modern music and pop culture, so I can sort of understand this whole mass public grieving circle jerk that is going on all over the world, but I don't subscribe to it. This conformism in modern society is a little bit annoying...you see it in so many guises these days...but hey people are "free" to do as they will, and again, there's no doubt that the man's talent and past offerings are going to be missed.

Jay P

I bet he had this all planned out. He's living it up on some island in the middle of nowhere. Conspiracy ftw :cool:

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

With 2-pac and elvis... "celebrity island" I think they call it.

ejmaztec

Iker Obnoxious Pavilion wrote: »

With 2-pac and elvis... "celebrity island" I think they call it.

With Lord Lucan on drums.

Prof.Badass

Yeah, but with the tarnished reputation and debts and being pressured into performing michael jackson actually has a proper motive for faking his own death.

keefg

Get ready for Thriller or Billie Jean for a Christmas Number One as well (beats having another one from that poxy X-factor anyway).

parker kent

How can there be so many people that didn't already have the songs already?? Surely by this stage you had already either bought them or didn't want them? Fair enough a few people that are mid-teens and under might not have got them, but I don't get this sudden mass desire to buy them.

sickpuppy32

ejmaztec wrote: »

With Lord Lucan on drums.

thought he was off riding shergar?

Berty

keefg wrote: »

Get ready for Thriller or Billie Jean for a Christmas Number One as well (beats having another one from that poxy X-factor anyway).

Unlikely. Nobody will give a sh*t by then.

Overheal

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Oh joy, im already sick of all his poxy songs on the radio.

yes but on youtube his dance moves are almost hypnotic to a point.

Dennis the Stone

ejmaztec wrote: »

With Lord Lucan on drums.

If he can bash those drums as hard as he bashes women's skulls in with lead pipes then I for one would like to see what kind of vibe he can get going. Jazz fusion kind of thing I suppose

jumpguy

parker kent wrote: »

How can there be so many people that didn't already have the songs already?? Surely by this stage you had already either bought them or didn't want them? Fair enough a few people that are mid-teens and under might not have got them, but I don't get this sudden mass desire to buy them.

Alot have probably lost them by now

mike65

Sure there are millions of copies of unlistened to copies of Thriller or Bad on record and tape, so that many will prompted to buy a CD or download.

Paddo81

I understand it - alot of people are morons!

Mossy Monk

parker kent wrote: »

How can there be so many people that didn't already have the songs already?? Surely by this stage you had already either bought them or didn't want them? Fair enough a few people that are mid-teens and under might not have got them, but I don't get this sudden mass desire to buy them.

There's a bandwagon to be jumped on.

philstar

great career move by Jacko

parker kent

Oh and prepare yourselves for when his unfinished album gets released later in the year.

Dennis the Stone

Jade versus Jacko.

In HEAVEN.

Who would win?

ejmaztec

BigMentalDisease wrote: »

If he can bash those drums as hard as he bashes women's skulls in with lead pipes then I for one would like to see what kind of vibe he can get going. Jazz fusion kind of thing I suppose

Yes, "allegedly", his first gig didn't go down too well, but he's had a lot of time to practice, and I expect the imminent release of The Grateful Dead 2's first album.

Pop's Diner

On the Amazon.co.uk sales charts Essential Michael Jackson was at number one with seven other albums in the top 25.

Possibly my favourite Michael Jackson album.

Voodu Child

"It's funny the way people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life."

amacachi

Iker Obnoxious Pavilion wrote: »

He is dead, people miss him, people will buy his album. I guarantee that he will make more money dead than alive

Doubt that.

Dudess

His death and the massive coverage has sparked a renewed interest after so many years in the wilderness. It makes sense FFS, hardly something to get that angered about. I agree the obsessive, hysterical MJ fans are hilarious... but I'll probably buy some of his stuff in light of this. This sudden tragedy has made me appreciate how good some of his material was, that's all.
And yeah, I had a copy of Bad, but it was on cassette and thrown out a long time ago.

amacachi

Dudess wrote: »

His death and the massive coverage has sparked a renewed interest after so many years in the wilderness. It makes sense FFS, hardly something to get that angered about. I agree the obsessive, hysterical MJ fans are hilarious... but I'll probably buy some of his stuff in light of this. This sudden tragedy has made me appreciate how good some of his material was, that's all.
And yeah, I had a copy of Bad, but it was on cassette and thrown out a long time ago.

Aye, tbh I'll feel like a dick if I do buy any CDs in person though, lookin like a bandwagon jumper, despite having downloaded 2 of his albums a few weeks ago.
I actually said the night he died that it was a pity that he didn't die on the Monday, would've probably got the top 10 that way.

ejmaztec

This must have been embarrassing when the fans found out they were in the wrong place.:eek:

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/starstruck-confused-fans-gather-at-wrong-shrine-1793490.html

By Guy Adams and David Usborne
Saturday June 27 2009

CROWDS gathered at the Michael Jackson star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame as news of his death emerged. Some laid flowers, others lit candles, and a handful even broke into song-and-dance routines in tribute to their fallen idol.
There was but one problem: they had picked the wrong star.
The Michael Jackson whose career was celebrated by the brass and marble monument where the mini-shrine sprang up was in fact the King of Pop's namesake: a DJ for local radio station KABC who retired last year.
Jackson's real Walk of Fame star was covered over by scaffolding erected by the organisers of Thursday night's premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, 'Bruno'. The filmmakers said yesterday that a scene joking about the late pop singer had been swiftly cut from the comic film

pablomakaveli

I owned Off the Wall, Bad and Thriller already. There great albums worth having regardless of the fact he died.

amacachi

ejmaztec wrote: »

This must have been embarrassing when the fans found out they were in the wrong place.:eek:

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/starstruck-confused-fans-gather-at-wrong-shrine-1793490.html

By Guy Adams and David Usborne
Saturday June 27 2009

CROWDS gathered at the Michael Jackson star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame as news of his death emerged. Some laid flowers, others lit candles, and a handful even broke into song-and-dance routines in tribute to their fallen idol.
There was but one problem: they had picked the wrong star.
The Michael Jackson whose career was celebrated by the brass and marble monument where the mini-shrine sprang up was in fact the King of Pop's namesake: a DJ for local radio station KABC who retired last year.
Jackson's real Walk of Fame star was covered over by scaffolding erected by the organisers of Thursday night's premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, 'Bruno'. The filmmakers said yesterday that a scene joking about the late pop singer had been swiftly cut from the comic film

I swear that's over 100 times I've seen that posted or reported.

Dudess

But also, a huge amount of his material was ****ing awful and his death doesn't change that.

ejmaztec

amacachi wrote: »

I swear that's over 100 times I've seen that posted or reported.

You must be a glutton for punishment then, as I've only managed to look at it once.:p

nlgbbbblth

Pop's Diner wrote: »

Possibly my favourite Michael Jackson album.

compilations don't count.

bonerjams03

Does his estate (i.e his children) even have rights of ownership to his music? He was ridddled with debt, I know he had to sell his rights to the Beatles music anway....

zokrez

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

Of the 22 charts from different counties on iTunes, every single one has at least one Michael Jackson song in the top ten EXCEPT one country which for me is telling - Ireland

Pop's Diner

zokrez wrote: »

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

Of the 22 charts from different counties on iTunes, every single one has at least one Michael Jackson song in the top ten EXCEPT one country which for me is telling - Ireland

Really? All it tells me is we're behind when it comes to e-commerce.

iseethelight

Pop's Diner wrote: »

Really? All it tells me is we're behind when it comes to e-commerce.

Im just hoping we have some taste. Seriously was he really that good, his thriller stuff sounds badly dated,his Jackson 5 stuff seems like the same as motown was doing years before he arrived or do I just not get it.

As for the huge shock around his death, I for one was mildly suprised and interested but surely with his history of health trouble....

Dudess

iseethelight wrote: »

was he really that good, his thriller stuff sounds badly dated,his Jackson 5 stuff seems like the same as motown was doing years before he arrived or do I just not get it.

I agree completely with you about the sound, but it was his delivery, his interpretation, which caused people to be so hypnotised by him.

Jenroche

You gotta hand it to him....it was a good career move, dying.

Jen ;->

TheZohanS

zokrez wrote: »

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

Of the 22 charts from different counties on iTunes, every single one has at least one Michael Jackson song in the top ten EXCEPT one country which for me is telling - Ireland

....and Japan.

zokrez

TheZohan wrote: »

....and Japan.

They are now but not when I looked first.

TheZohanS

zokrez wrote: »

They are now but not when I looked first.

Look at the album charts! :eek:

dr oatker

The record company must have been fuming that it was so sudden. A few days before Freddie Mercury died the large record stores got instructions from EMI to clear spaces on their shelves for Queens back catalogue.

You think it's bad now? Wait till the funeral. Al Sharpton wants to bring his body to the Apollo Theatre in New York so that people can pay their respects to his corpse!

Max Power1

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

This:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/michael-jackson-set-for-album-chart-number-one-416540.html

I don't understand this phenomenon. Sometimes I just don't understand people at all.


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Its called the Kurt Cobain formula. (Variants include the Jeff Buckley logic. Deviations extend to Randy Rhodes and John Bonham)

Dead artists are always amazing, and they always inspired a generation of musicians.

amacachi

dr oatker wrote: »

The record company must have been fuming that it was so sudden. A few days before Freddie Mercury died the large record stores got instructions from EMI to clear spaces on their shelves for Queens back catalogue.

Was thinking that alright, if digital downloads didn't count towards the chart he'd be nowhere til at least next week.

d22ontour

Iker Obnoxious Pavilion wrote: »

He is dead, people miss him, people will buy his album. I guarantee that he will make more money dead than alive

He won't make a cent/dime etc because of uhm his dying.


Anyone who actually admits to buying the muck music he 'made' when he was alive deserves more ridicule than the tards who bought so in his death.

Mossy Monk

d22ontour wrote: »

Anyone who actually admits to buying the muck music he 'made' when he was alive deserves more ridicule than the tards who bought so in his death.

Anyone who doesn't share your taste in music is a fool.

Mr Ed

zokrez wrote: »

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

Of the 22 charts from different counties on iTunes, every single one has at least one Michael Jackson song in the top ten EXCEPT one country which for me is telling - Ireland

He now fills 7 of the top 10 slots on the irish iTunes

Latchy

d22ontour wrote: »

He won't make a cent/dime etc because of uhm his dying.

He will make more money dead than alive .Just he wont be around to see or benefit from it .

Anyone who actually admits to buying the muck music he 'made' when he was alive deserves more ridicule than the tards who bought so in his death

Rock on MJ - Legend !

d22ontour

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Anyone who doesn't share your taste in music is a fool.

Yes because my taste in music is based on my dislike of mj in somehow ? Or the 6 billion people who never bought his music are fools for not liking it ?

What is your smarmy comment based on ?

There is not 1 person in the world who would share the same musical interests as me seeing as it's the most diverse media known to man/woman.I said his music was shiz regardless of his living/death.Do you see ?

It was shiz when he was alive , it aint going to get better because of some fookin wankfest of what 'he' is proclaimed to have done for music.

giggsy664

ejmaztec wrote: »

This must have been embarrassing when the fans found out they were in the wrong place.:eek:

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/starstruck-confused-fans-gather-at-wrong-shrine-1793490.html

By Guy Adams and David Usborne
Saturday June 27 2009

CROWDS gathered at the Michael Jackson star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame as news of his death emerged. Some laid flowers, others lit candles, and a handful even broke into song-and-dance routines in tribute to their fallen idol.
There was but one problem: they had picked the wrong star.
The Michael Jackson whose career was celebrated by the brass and marble monument where the mini-shrine sprang up was in fact the King of Pop's namesake: a DJ for local radio station KABC who retired last year.
Jackson's real Walk of Fame star was covered over by scaffolding erected by the organisers of Thursday night's premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, 'Bruno'. The filmmakers said yesterday that a scene joking about the late pop singer had been swiftly cut from the comic film

Hahaha. O was hoping they saved themselves the embarresment of en-shrining the wrong star