For the third week in a row, Michael Jackson has sold more albums than anything on the Billboard 200. His Number Ones collection sold 349,000 copies, while this week's "No. 1" record, Maxwell's BLACKsummers'night, only sold 316,000.
He can be posthumously comforted by the fact that he's locked the TOP TWELVE positions on the Catalog Chart:
1. Michael Jackson - "Number Ones" - 349,000 (up 3%)
2. Michael Jackson - "The Essential Michael Jackson" - 149,000 (up 18%)
3. Michael Jackson - "Thriller" - 264,000 (up 41%) [Wait, shouldn't this be #2 then? -ed.]
4. Michael Jackson - "Off The Wall" - 107,000 (up 108%)
5. Michael Jackson - "Bad" - 97,000 (up 332%)
6. Michael Jackson - "Dangerous" - 67,000 (up 157%).
7. Jackson 5 - "The Ultimate Collection" - 34,000 (up 239%)
8. Jackson 5 - "The Best of Jackson 5: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection" - 17,000 (up 280%)
9. Michael Jackson - "Greatest Hits: HIStory -- Volume 1" - 15,000 (up 98%)
10. Michael Jackson - "HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book 1" - 14,000 (up 153%)
11. Michael Jackson - "Invincible" - 14,000 (up 61%)
12. Michael Jackson - "The Ultimate Collection" - 7,000 (down 26%)
According to Billboard, since he died, "consumers have purchased 1.9 million physical MJ albums and 491,000 digital MJ albums." Amazing.
Top Ten of the non-catalog albums after the jump...
Billboard 200
1. Maxwell - "BLACKsummers'night" - 316,000 (debut)
2. "Hannah Montana 3" soundtrack - 137,000 (debut)
3. "Now 31" - 101,000 (down 41%)
4. All Time Low - "Nothing Personal" - 63,000 (debut)
5. Black Eyed Peas - "The E.N.D." - 63,000 (down 10%)
6. Brad Paisley - "American Saturday Night" - 44,000 (down 66%)
7. Rob Thomas - "Cradlesong" - 41,000 (down 66%)
8. Taylor Swift - "Fearless" - 36,000 (up 1%)
9. Eminem - "Relapse" - 34,000 (down 12%)
10. Jonas Brothers - "Lines, Vines and Trying Times" - 34,000 (down 19%)
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