Michael Jackson set for album chart number one

An Fear Aniar · 27-06-2009 03:56PM #1

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 · 27-06-2009 04:01PM

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

PirateShampoo · 27-06-2009 04:05PM

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

Wertz · 27-06-2009 04:10PM

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 · 27-06-2009 04:14PM

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 · 27-06-2009 04:17PM

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

ejmaztec · 27-06-2009 04:22PM

Iker Obnoxious Pavilion wrote: »

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

With Lord Lucan on drums.

Prof.Badass · 27-06-2009 04:23PM

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 · 27-06-2009 04:24PM

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 · 27-06-2009 04:24PM

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 · 27-06-2009 04:26PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

With Lord Lucan on drums.

thought he was off riding shergar?

Berty · 27-06-2009 04:27PM

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 · 27-06-2009 04:37PM

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 · 27-06-2009 04:49PM

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 · 27-06-2009 05:03PM

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 · 27-06-2009 05:05PM

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 · 27-06-2009 05:06PM

I understand it - alot of people are morons!

Mossy Monk · 27-06-2009 05:06PM

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 · 27-06-2009 05:06PM

great career move by Jacko

parker kent · 27-06-2009 05:21PM

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

Dennis the Stone · 27-06-2009 05:32PM

Jade versus Jacko.

In HEAVEN.

Who would win?

ejmaztec · 27-06-2009 05:33PM

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 · 27-06-2009 06:07PM

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 · 27-06-2009 06:15PM

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

amacachi · 27-06-2009 06:16PM

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 · 27-06-2009 06:18PM

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 · 27-06-2009 06:23PM

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 · 27-06-2009 06:23PM

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 · 27-06-2009 06:27PM

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

amacachi · 27-06-2009 06:29PM

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 · 27-06-2009 06:30PM

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

Michael Jackson set for album chart number one

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