Shirley Halperin of Us Weekly and Billboard’s Carla Hay were on CNN on Friday to chat with Carol Costello on Michael Jackson’s weak opening on the album charts with his new album, ‘Number Ones’. “It’s not bad, it’s just a weak performance for a superstar of his caliber,” Halperin said of his #13 opening. “The fact he wasn’t able to break the top ten really says a lot about, you know, basically how his career has dwindled over the last five, 10 year. It’s really a testament to that.” Hay says, “Well, No. 13 for Michael Jackson is not really that great considering that in the past, his last several albums have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. Also, the first week sales for his latest album, ‘Number Ones’ reached a little over 120,000 copies, which is only about 30 percent of the first week sales for his previous greatest hits album, which was ‘HIStory’, in 1995. Clearly, there’s a big drop-off in sales for Michael Jackson. It’s hard to say if he would have sold less if there wasn’t a lot of media attention regarding the child molestation scandal.” Read more.
Is “The King of Pop’s” career in trouble? HELLO??? Does he even have a career at all?
Um this is so stupid… I THINK THE GUY HAS A BIGGER PROBLEM THAN DECLINING RECORD SALES AT THE MOMENT!
His Music career of late has taken a back seat to his troubled life. SAD
yeah because of this. I hope they don’t put him in jail because I still want to hear him sing live.
Hello?!!!! Of course it’s not number one like his former albums, this is a greatest hits!
i am already a great fan of Michael Jackson ever since I was just a little kid. I would really miss the King of Pop,,