{"id":9650,"date":"2017-09-08T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T22:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9650"},"modified":"2017-09-08T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T22:10:46","slug":"thrillers-missing-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/thrillers-missing-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Thriller’s Missing Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s accepted that Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ sold over one hundred million copies<\/a>. But do the numbers add up? A fascinating look at sampling, rounding up,?sales tracking, and hype from Bill Wyman at The New Yorker.<\/p>\n

Did Jackson sell a billion records, or even seven hundred and fifty million? Sure, ?Thriller? sold a lot of copies, but Jackson recorded infrequently, and his later albums sold nowhere near what ?Thriller? did. We know from SoundScan figures that Jackson was selling, on average, roughly a million albums a year in the nineteen-nineties and the aughts in the U.S.?and that includes greatest-hits albums, like the four-million-selling ?Number Ones.? That?s not nothing, but it?s not the sort of thing that adds up to a billion records over time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did Thriller Really Sell A Hundred Million Copies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s accepted that Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ sold over one hundred million copies. But do the numbers add up? A fascinating look at sampling, rounding up,?sales tracking, and hype from Bill Wyman at The New Yorker. Did Jackson sell a billion records, or even seven hundred and fifty million? Sure, ?Thriller? sold a lot of copies, but Jackson recorded infrequently, and his later albums sold nowhere near what ?Thriller? did. We know from SoundScan figures that Jackson was selling, on average, roughly a million albums a year in the nineteen-nineties and the aughts in the U.S.?and that includes greatest-hits albums, like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Thriller's Missing Millions","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,576],"tags":[5816,5814,2513,5815],"class_list":["post-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-mainstream-media","tag-lifetime","tag-michael-jackson","tag-sales","tag-thriller","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2vE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9651,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions\/9651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}