Michael Jackson Nears The Platinum Mark…

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michael_jackson_narrowweb__300x4810As retailers continue to keep up with the demand of Michael Jackson’s catalog, the numbers have finally come in, and they total out to be over 800,000 copies sold of all his material combined.

Nielsen SoundScan reported that Michael Jackson’s Number Ones album will be the highest selling album in the United States, while his Thriller album will round out second place.

The other difference in Jackson’s album sales is in regards to physical versus digital albums.

The week the “King Of Pop” died, 43 percent of his albums sold were physically, as opposed to this past week when 83 percent of albums sold were physical copies.

When Motown founder Berry Gordy proclaim the fallen singer to be the greatest entertainer of all time during his MJ’s ceremony, looks like he wasn’t wrong…