And yeah I know it’s World Wide and not US but it’s still insane

sheesh

The greatest.

7 mil in the first week and bootlegging was rampant back then
GOAT

Inb4 dumbass bozos come in here making dumbass bozo comparisons

MJ 1/1 eternally

Why is KTT so local? Y'all been using US only sales this whole time

MJ was more famous than Jesus

Adele did this without streaming too! Kinda wild!

Always wondered this too

Pitbull has sold over 25 million studio albums and over 100 million singles worldwide. He has over 15 billion views on YouTube as of May 2020.

Michael Jackson

but MJ superior to everyone tbh nobody f***in with him

Lots of people on ktt are very American centric and tend to dismiss a lot of what people outside of it have to say, I kind of get it but people have to realise that music is international, especially when we’re talking about artists of the magnitude of mj and Kanye/drake

Will not happen again

and this wasn't even his best performance. bruh was setting crazy expectations for himself

He wanted Bad to exceed the sales of Thriller. He wanted Bad to sell a hundred million and told everybody about it, the president of Sony records and everybody. He would put up pieces of paper in his house, in hotels: “100 million.” He wanted to sell 100 million for Bad.

That’s my goat

holy s***

imagine ktt in the 80s mfs would be like no way michael selling over 7 mill!

Albums selling 100-200k being called mysterious

Feel like KTT1 was more international/had more Euros at least. KTT2 playing border control yeugh

Because the Hot 100 and the album version of that chart is U.S.-based, so U.S. sales matter more