Michael Jackson sold more records than anyone in the country this past week, just like last week: a stunning 800,000 albums in total, including 339,000 copies of Number Ones and 187,000 copies of Thriller, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But just like last week, those two best-sellers were only counted for Billboard’s Top Comprehensive Albums chart due to their age, leaving NOW That’s What I Call Music! 31 to top the flagship Billboard 200 albums chart with a comparatively small 169,000 units shifted. Such are Billboard’s rules.
Note that this makes two weeks in a row where catalog albums have soundly outsold the Billboard 200’s No. 1, something that had never happened before in the chart publication’s history. Count it as just one more testament to Michael Jackson’s lasting impact on pop culture.
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