Michael Jackson’s album reaches No 1
Michael Jackson is richer in death than he was in life, with his songs generating millions of pounds in record sales, downloads and radio royalties in just three days.
By Matthew Moore
Published: 7:15PM BST 28 Jun 2009
Music industry experts described the sales impact of the King of Pop’s sudden passing as “unprecedented” and “explosive”.
Last night his best-of album reached No 1 in the UK charts, with four of his other albums also entering the Top 20. Forty-three of the Top 200 singles feature the singer.
As the first pop superstar to die since the digital revolution made music easily available online through websites such as iTunes, Jackson’s posthumous sales are expected to dwarf those of Elvis Presley and John Lennon.
Eamonn Forde, music industry analyst and contributing editor of Music Week said that Jackson’s death was “far, far bigger than the The Beatles making their back catalogue digitally available”.
“Because of the instant gratification of digital, a lot of people who would never have bothered going to the record shop are buying Michael Jackson songs, because they can do it with a couple of clicks from their bedroom,” he said.
“The last time we saw such interest in a particular artists was when Sir Elton John released Candle in the Wind after Princess Diana’s death, but a whole industry was required to get those records to the shops. There are no such restrictions this time.”
Concrete sales figures since Jackson’s death are not yet available, but industry sources said that well in excess of 100,000 of his records had been bought or legally downloaded in the UK since Thursday. At one stage on Friday his albums filled the top 14 places on the online retailer Amazon’s sales ranking.
Jackson was an even bigger star in the world’s two biggest music markets – the US and Japan – where his albums have also jumped up the charts.
However, record sales are just the tip of the iceberg. “The real money will be made through royalty fees, every penny of which should go to his estate,” said Gennaro Castaldo of HMV, the music retailer.
“You could not walk along any street this weekend without hearing Michael Jackson’s music coming out of almost every shop radio. If you replicate that across the world, you are looking at millions of pounds.”
The renewed appetite for his music will be exploited by the release of “new” Jackson material, ensuring the sales boost is drawn out over weeks and months.
The star is understood to have collaborated with some of the biggest names in urban music, including Will. I. Am of the Black Eyed Peas, on an as-yet-unnamed album, and he reportedly left 200 unpublished songs to his children in his will to secure their future in the event of his bankruptcy.
Sony Music is also understood to be preparing a new compilation album.
The income will go some way to easing the precarious financial position in which Jackson left his estate. His executors may be forced to sell the singer’s lucrative share in the Beatles back catalogue to help clear his estimated £200 million debt.
“Quite frankly, he may be worth more dead than alive,” said Jerry Reisman of the Hit Factory recording studio, where Jackson produced his best-selling album Thriller.
‘Jackson’s not dead, he’s living in a bunker with Elvis Presley’: Conspiracy theories flood the internet
Now here are the crazy Conspiracy theories, just like the Fake Moon Landings and 9/11. o wait that one’s true…….
Internet site 68comeback reported that Jackson was living in a ‘bunker’ with Elvis Presley.
It wrote: ‘Surely you’ve heard of the secret, seven-storey-deep bunker that Elvis Presley had built underneath Graceland, prior to faking his own death? MJ lives there now with Elvis and certain other “dead” celebrities. You don’t have to be sad for him any more.’
Weirdest claim: A site called 68comeback reported that Michael Jackson was living in ‘seven-story deep bunker’ in Graceland with Elvis Presley (right)
On the run as a nun
Minutes after his death at 2.27pm Pacific Time in Oakland, California, Dwight Santos – an unemployed toilet cleaner – told reporters at the UCLA Medical Centre that he had seen Jackson emerging from a back door of the hospital disguised as a nun.
Celebrity blogger: Perez Hilton wrote that Jackson’s death was a ‘stunt’ so the singer could get out of his London tourHe told those who would listen that the singer was heading for a Caribbean island where he planned to live as a fruit seller called Thomas Di Loco.
Fled by jetpack to live with Eskimos
Moments later, another fan called Elisa Chan claimed she had seen Jackson strapping on a jetpack and flying to Los Angeles airport. From there he was going to visit his birthplace of Gary, Indiana, before flying to Greenland to live with Eskimos.
Escaping hit O2 commitments
Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton alleged Jackson was ‘pulling a stunt’ in order to get out of his concert commitments at the O2 in London.
Hilton added: ‘Jacko pulled a similar stunt when he was getting ready for his big HBO special in ’95 when he “collapsed” at rehearsal!
‘He was dragging his heels on that just like his upcoming 50- date London residency at the O2 Arena, of which he already postponed the first few dates.’
Killed by a biological weapon
Contributors to the website topix.com suggested that Jackson had been killed by a ‘new experimental biological weapon’.
Faked his death at Neverland
On the internet site weekleyworldnews.com there was discussion about claims that Jackson had always planned to fake his own death while living at his Neverland ranch.
He would have his ‘ashes’ scattered in the grounds of his former property and then be able to start a new life.
As newspapers across the world report Jackson’s death, some bloggers on the web are insisting the star faked his death
Despite video footage of Jackson’s body being carried away in a waiting van to the coroner’s office, some people spread bizarre rumours that he was in fact taking a jetpack to live with EskimosAlready has a new identity
The digitalspy website message board included the claim: ‘Millions in debt and realises he can’t deliver on a 50 gig comeback tour, so he fakes his death, assumes a new identity (which he’s been trying to achieve for many years) and disappears.’
Ploy to sell more records
On the denverpost.com forum one contributor was convinced Jackson faked his own death to make more money, explaining: ‘He was broke. .. and was in no condition to perform one show, let alone a string of 50.
‘Now that he’s “dead” his record and merchandise sales will skyrocket, filling his “estate’s” bank account and allowing him to live in seclusion for the rest of his natural life.’
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Jackson and Fawcett Deaths Overshadow NWO Moves On Liberty
‘It’s like manna from heaven for the corporate media. Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” and Farrah Fawcett, the “It Girl,” have died on the same day. Details of these two tragic events will now dominate the media for more than a week and push vastly more important events into the shadows.
Obama and Congress plan to hand the entire U.S. economy over to an evil cartel of private banksters and inbred elitists, thus creating a dictatorship not answerable to the people. Meanwhile, the corporate media has gathered in a feeding frenzy over the death of a mentally disturbed music icon.’
‘Ark of the Covenant’ about to be Unveiled?
‘The patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia says he will announce to the world Friday the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, perhaps the world’s most prized archaeological and spiritual artifact, which he says has been hidden away in a church in his country for millennia, according to the Italian news agency Adnkronos.’
Home Education Stamped Upon by Illuminati
‘Balls and his Government cronies commissioned a report into Home Education under the guise of investigating whether or not the children who are taught at home could be under greater risk of abuse. What a joke that idea would be if the world weren’t treated so seriously. But it is, and so the report was produced and the government has accepted every bit of it.
Of course they have! They already knew what the outcome would be before the investigations took place. What would be the point of commissioning a report otherwise? This is government we are talking about here and its raison d’etre is the enslavement of its people.
If you are going to enslave your people you sure as hell don’t want them being educated. If they are educated they can see how to break free of the chains.’
Neo-Nazi Leader ‘Was MI6 Agent’
‘Germany’s most notorious postwar neo-Nazi party was led by an intelligence agent working for the British, according to both published and unpublished German sources. The alleged agent – the late Adolf von Thadden – came closer than anyone to giving the far-right real influence over postwar German politics. Under his leadership, the National Democratic party (NPD) made a string of impressive showings in regional elections in the late 60s, and there were widespread fears that it would gain representation in the federal parliament.
Yet, according to a report earlier this year in the Cologne daily, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, the man dubbed “the New Führer” was working for British intelligence throughout the four years he led the NPD, from 1967 to 1971.’
Huge Pre-Stonehenge Complex Found via ‘Crop Circles’
‘Given away by strange, crop circle-like formations seen from the air, a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex discovered in southern England has taken archaeologists by surprise. A thousand years older than nearby Stonehenge, the site includes the remains of wooden temples and two massive, 6,000-year-old tombs that are among “Britain’s first architecture,” according to archaeologist Helen Wickstead, leader of the Damerham Archaeology Project.’
Parents Banned from Taking Pictures of Their Own Children at Sports Day
‘Mrs Ethelston’s Church of England Primary School, in Uplyme, Devon, prohibited photos and video filming, claiming it was due to changes in child protection and images legislation. It is the first time the school has taken such measures.
Doctors Told to Give Priority to Gypsies
‘They should be given longer consultations, and should be seen by GPs when they walk in without an appointment, even if doctors are fully-booked. The average length of a consultation is five or ten minutes but travellers will be given 20 minutes and allowed to bring relatives into the consulting rooms. The guidelines have been introduced because, under race laws, gypsies and travellers are defined as minority ethnic groups and the NHS is obliged to consider their special needs and circumstances.’
The Day After the Revolution?
June 15, 2009
Please contact me with ideas for what we should do as a MOVMENT. We need to start planning together how we are going to live free. Email Me: consciousminds@hotmail.com
Im calling every person who has ever read a David Icke book, or listen to Alex Jones or any of the other very good authors about the Iluminati, NWO, THE OCULT, Secret Societies ect.
Its time to stop talking and debating whos the really deal and whos an inside operative. Its time to now say What Now? How do we make our world better?
Alex talks with Kevin Trudeau, the infomercial marketer ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $37 million for violating a 2004 stipulated order by allegedly misrepresenting the content of his book, The Weight Loss Cure They Dont Want You to Know About.
One of the best Alex Jones Interviews iv heard.
terence mckenna – capitalism vs. democracy
June 13, 2009
Iv not posted much for a while, iv been thinking and iv now got a lot of new ideas and will be rolling out my new vision very soon.
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