Posted Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:51am PDT
For just the second time since Michael Jackson died in June, his compilation Number Ones is not the best-selling album in the U.S. That distinction belongs instead to George Strait's Twang. 
Posted Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:09pm PDT
Michael Jackson has three of the five best-selling albums in the U.S. for the seventh consecutive week. All three albums rank among the top 15 for the year-to-date. Why does this make Garth Brooks nervous? 
Posted Wed Aug 5, 2009 11:05am PDT
Michael Jackson's Number Ones is the best-selling album for the fifth time in six weeks. This is the longest that an artist who had died has had the top-seller since John Lennon's Double Fantasy in 1980-81. 
Posted Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:24am PDT
Michael Jackson's Number Ones is the best-seller for the fourth time in five weeks. It's the first time that an album by a deceased performer has been on top this long since Biggie's Life After Death in 1997. 
Posted Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:07pm PDT
Chris Daughtry becomes the first American Idol alum to land back-to-back #1 albums. Kelly Clarkson is the only other Idol alum to notch two #1 albums, and hers weren't consecutive. Also: Michaelmania continues. 
Posted Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:30am PDT
Linkin Park this week pulls ahead of Nelly as the top-selling album artist to emerge in the 2000s. To mark the occasion, here's a list of the top 20 new acts of the decade. 
Posted Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:49pm PDT
There was little reason to think that Bob Marley & the Wailers' Legend would become a blockbuster when it was released in 1984. But this week, it tops the 10 million sales mark. How'd that happen? 
Posted Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:23pm PDT
Michael Jackson has six of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. this week. This breaks a record that has stood since 1966, when Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass placed four albums in the top 10. 
Posted Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:06pm PDT
Al Sharpton made the most provocative comment at Michael Jackson's memorial. He drew a link between Jackson's popularity in the '80s and Barack Obama's election as President. Anything to that? 
Posted Wed Jul 8, 2009 6:06pm PDT
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