Almost a week after his death, MJ is racking up the accolades!
The ongoing coverage of his death has almost over extended its welcome (well, actually this past weekend it did) but still amazing in its own right is how the public is rushing to buy or download his music. This is absolutely nuts! We all knew it would be a media bombardment and you have to admit it’s fascinating to watch stories about people. It keeps getting more hairy, more interesting, and if you are a fan of Entertainment Tonight, then you’ve hit the prime time jackpot!
Does this mean that for the last 10-15 years, nobody has given a rat’s “you know what” about his music until the dude dies? Just a sign that so many only know of MJ for what he has done outside of the studio, which is sad. Can you blame people?
Regardless of that crap, the numbers for MJ’s music is staggering and is unheard of in the digital era and Internet based music world of 2009.
Thanks to Yahoo for this information and thought I would share.
Collectively, Jackson’s solo albums sold 415,000 this past week. That’s extraordinary, given that his titles sold a combined 10,000 in the week ended June 21. Of the 415,000, 58 percent were digital downloads.
On the Top Digital Albums chart, Jackson has a record six out of the top 10 slots, including the top four. “The Essential Michael Jackson” leads the Top Digital Albums list with 80,000 downloads sold, while “Thriller” is No. 2 with 57,000.
Jackson places a record 25 songs on the 75-position Hot Digital Songs chart (21 solo hits and four with his siblings), smashing the mark of 14 charting titles established by David Cook in June 2008. Jackson’s Halloween radio staple, “Thriller,” moves 167,000, which is good for second place on the chart behind the 203,000 shifted by the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling.”
OK! OK ! Is that enough proof positive the guy was a musical stud? Nothing else to say or blog about (unless something real news worthy pops up in the near future) Sadly, people like to hear about MJ whether it’s music related or garbage about his life. If they keep dishing crap on MJ, I am sure I’ll eat it up too.
Vick and Burress will play by someone else’s rules
I have to admit that I seem to garner more confidence in the leadership of the NFL in comparison to MLB.
I have always thought Bud Selig was a blowhard pushover who let players get away with murder at the same time telling the media how rules need to be followed, blah blah blah…
Vick is done with his jail time on July 20th and Burress royally pissed off the NFL by not accepting jail time for his plea bargained nightclub gun possession charge.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is planning on leaving Burress and Vick sidelined indefinitely until they can prove they are remorseful and their legal matters have been resolved completely. These two boneheads will not get a free pass back into the NFL until Goodell says so. Vick and Burress will be back in the league, that’s a given. However, it appears to be on someone else’s terms which is good.
I applaud his effort to lay the basic foundation that rules must be followed, even in the multi million dollar circus of professional sports.
Something I’ve Observed: An introduction…
I was so inspired by the Simple Thought series that I had to introduce something similar, but not as informational and news worthy. “Something I’ve Observed” is more of a snapshot of something currently in my head that is either bugging me, bothering me, or enlightening me.
Simple Thoughts are more thought provoking, insightful, and are things that makes you go… Hmmm. Something I’ve Observed is a mere spewing of non headline news but needing to be blogged on.
What a week of news stories!!!
Last week might have been the most news worthy of the year or last couple of years for that matter. Carrot Top is still…well…Carrot Top, the post-election rioting in Iran calmed down a bit, we lost Ed McMahon, Jon and Kate filed divorce papers, it was unveiled that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant, Albert Pujols belted 6 RBI’s against the Royals in one game!, we lost Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett within hours of each other, and just this weekend Billy Mays (the OxiClean guy) is found dead by his wife Sunday morning.
Oh, on the plate for this week, American troops are pulling out of Baghdad, Bernie Madoff gets 150 years in the pokie, and I need to fix one of our garage doors which came off the track.
In Memoriam…a sad week in Hollywood
Daly’s new golf pants must of blinded the tunnel and it didn’t see his bus coming!
My buddy John is in the news again but this doesn’t sound like something he did on purpose or involved a ton of liquor or a casino. What does that leave?
His bus running into a bridge of course!
Love the blue and white checks and the lap band surgery is noticable, would you agree?
Not sure what to think of Jon and Kate
The second and maybe final installment of the Jon and Kate fiasco. I feel bad for the family as a separation and probable divorce is not an easy situation to endure. I feel bad that this once seemingly happy couple (or maybe they weren’t) are now feeling the effects of a reality show covering every aspect of their lives.
My gut tells me that they weren’t a happy couple from the get go. Yeah, the stats are not good for marriages with multiple births, but many of those families don’t document it. Granted, multiple birth families do get press coverage but nothing like this.
TV and over exposure split this family up. America loved how Jon and Kate nipped at each other week to week. She’s the controller, agenda maker…he being the kind of dopey dad getting picked on and laughed at by the kids and viewers.
It was a formula that worked well until cameras and real life caught up to the Gosselins. Obviously, true marital bliss was not present and the stress of a huge litter of kiddos plus pressures of keeping a TV show afloat became the tipping point of this relationship.
The ratings are high and they have made lots of money. I guess now they can enjoy it…separately
Simple thought #5 – Why don’t civilized countries with National health care riot for private insurance
Simple thought # 5
It occurred to me today that it is a little weird that all of these modern and civilized countries with socialized health care are not rioting for privatized medicine. You see, I hear all the time how bad socialized medicine sucks, and how people who have it hate it, so I find it weird that none of them, not a single one, have demanded private hospitals and private care as an option. I do admit that in some of the countries you can choose to pay a doctor or clinic to treat you, if you wish, but if the demand was truly high for these services there would be private hospitals popping up all over the place, and that is clearly not the case. Is it possible that nationalized health care is actually pretty good, and countries who have it, actually do a pretty good job of servicing the needs of the citizens?
Anyway, just a thought.
Simple thought #4 – Creating a North American Union
Simple thought #4
I am curious why we do not eliminate the borders between the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America. I say we give Americans and Canadians, as well as Mexicans full citizenship rights throughout North America. This accomplishes a few things that deserve discussion. First it eliminates the need for border patrol, except for coastal areas and a tiny strip of land in Panama. It would give Canadians and Americans the right to own land in Mexico, for the first time, which would create a huge stimulus event as Americans moved to the coast of Baja, and the Gulf areas. Basically every person living in the Midwest could now afford coastal property in gorgeous coastal Mexico. Third, it would create a balance of labor, as poorer areas would have plenty of work available to them as the growth boomed in coastal areas for the next 10 – 20 years, and there would be a huge supply of homes available in the Heartland as agriculture booms and non-agricultural workers move to the new coastal communities.
Anyway, just a simple thought for you to ponder.
Oh, and did I mention between Canada, Mexico and the United States there are enough natural resources to supply all of our energy consumption needs for the foreseeable future.
North Korea…are you kidding me?
I know this is serious and the prospect of any country making nuclear threats is dangerous. The UN and the US are not dealing easily with North Korea and they shouldn’t. I don’t care how imperialistic the US has become in it’s dealings with other countries, there is no room in our world for a country like North Korea. These statements are not going to make people happy who may be of North Korean origin, simply I don’t give a crap.
This is 2009 and the people of North Korea are trapped in a madman’s grip. Relinquish this country of its governments brainwashing and free these people into the modern world. They are one of the few entirely state run economic systems, which means they are very isolated and restrictive in how they deal with international trade. The country has numerous resources for agriculture, however, their economic growth is small and stagnant due to being a complete totalitarian, government controlled economy.
The Korean War ended in the late 50’s , however, North and South Korea have never officially “not” been at war. Tourism for South Korean and US residents is severely restricted as well. (pretty country but would you want to go now?) Tourists are accompanied by a state provided “chaperone” and there are few areas for tourist to roam free in the country.
A country that stifles its citizens and media the right to protected free speech, even though it’s stated in their constitution. Good news is the only news allowed when referring to the current regime. People starve in what is an ongoing famine, but this is never allowed to be discussed. China and Japan have been providing aid to the country for years.
Health care is free but grossly inadequate due to limitation of funds and outside influence. The mortality rate in this ocuntry is one of the highest in the world. They have been called the “most brutalized people in the world” because of strict government influence and punishment (work camps, capital punishment, etc).
I know there are “more visible” regions in Africa worse than North Korea when it comes to famine and lack of medicinal resources, but North Korea is a self containing government which has great potential to be a productive, thriving country in the modern era. The capacity for great economic, industrial growth, and a thriving agricultural foundation because of vast natural resources. However, military and regime come first.
So…why does this seem like old news and now suddenly it means something to me? Because, on the surface, the tactics of this country are laughable. They play manipulative games of “give me what I want or else” with the world. North Korea in the news didn’t interest me, it was just another reference to a country that meant nothing to me.
What used to be a cat and mouse game is now a regime who seems to have the balls (or foolishness) to bark with the big dogs. I once laugh now I worry. I hear nuclear come up in conversations I start to listen. I now know how bad these people have it and they truly don’t know it, because they know no other way of life.
I am sure someone is thinking “Hell, having Bush as President was just as bad and our country is the most crooked in the world” Well, you go ahead and think that as you sip your latte, browse your blog of the morning in the corner coffee shop, bagging on your chosen politican of the month. Meanwhile, there is a little country out east that wants to blow up the world and doesn’t feed its people.
Dunk that in your hot cocoa next time you think the US is a rotten place to be.
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