The first U. S. shipment of Michael Jackson's posthumous album, "Michael," will be 900,000 according to retail sources. Sony is projecting first-week CD sales of 340,000 and digital album sales of 60,000. Those numbers are similar to debut-week sales of Jackson's album "This Is It," though that album had the marketing strength of a major motion picuture behind it.
秒 week projections for "Michael," are set at 280,000 units, while digital sales are expected to slip from its debut week percentage of 15% to 8%. However, both of those percentages are better than the digital sales garnered 由 "This Is It" in its first week when the format accounted for only 5.6% of total sales.
Many 音乐 merchants say the controversy surrounding the single "Breaking News" should fuel awareness and interest in the album.
"I think people will come out to buy the album, especially with the controversy," Edge Entertainment Distribution 音乐 buyer Danny Cohen says.
The 辩论 over song quality and vocal authenticity will likely be a moot point 由 Nov. 15, when the Jackson website is scheduled to debut "Hold My Hand," which features Akon. That first commercially available single from "Michael" will be made available for sale that same 日 at digital stores like iTunes.
Some merchants worry that the quality of the first song streamed from Jackson's site may not inspire consumers to rush out and buy the whole album on 街, 街道 date. One merchant described "Breaking News" as "an interesting choice to sell an album." However, many merchants say that Sony sales representatives have told them the single was chosen 更多 because of the lyrical content as a way to herald the news about the upcoming album.
秒 week projections for "Michael," are set at 280,000 units, while digital sales are expected to slip from its debut week percentage of 15% to 8%. However, both of those percentages are better than the digital sales garnered 由 "This Is It" in its first week when the format accounted for only 5.6% of total sales.
Many 音乐 merchants say the controversy surrounding the single "Breaking News" should fuel awareness and interest in the album.
"I think people will come out to buy the album, especially with the controversy," Edge Entertainment Distribution 音乐 buyer Danny Cohen says.
The 辩论 over song quality and vocal authenticity will likely be a moot point 由 Nov. 15, when the Jackson website is scheduled to debut "Hold My Hand," which features Akon. That first commercially available single from "Michael" will be made available for sale that same 日 at digital stores like iTunes.
Some merchants worry that the quality of the first song streamed from Jackson's site may not inspire consumers to rush out and buy the whole album on 街, 街道 date. One merchant described "Breaking News" as "an interesting choice to sell an album." However, many merchants say that Sony sales representatives have told them the single was chosen 更多 because of the lyrical content as a way to herald the news about the upcoming album.
你 know i think Michael really wanted to change the world. 你 can tell because of his songs like man in the mirror,heal the heal world,earth song,black 或者 white,and they don't care about us. and it is so sad that he pasted and when i looked at the video they don't care about us i really started to cry becuase is was so happy to see all the people that loved him and saw him. i mean he was and still the king of pop. i mean Michael had kids,family, and 粉丝 and Michael song 你 are not alone in so meaningful atfer his death. :( I 爱情 你 MICHAEL!!!
There were no albums bigger than Thriller and Bad, and Jackson seemed to be just entering his prime as an artist.
In hindsight, considering the astonishing heights he hit in the 1980s, maybe there was nowhere to go but down. On 最佳, 返回页首 of the world profeessionally, his persional affairs increasingly came under the microscope and seemed to gradually bleed the life and vibrancy out of the mercurial artist.
The new decade sarted off with Jackson in the studio, recording his new album, Dangerous. Jackson had recently signed a 15-years, six-record deal with sony, and if the singer was able to deliver sales numbers comparable to what he 发布 in the 1980s, the deal was estimated to have an earing power of up to $1 billion.
Dangerous got off to a great start-it debuted at number one and quickly outpaced the sales of Bad.
There comes a time when we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all
We can't go on pretending 日 由 day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We are all a part of God's great big family
And the truth, 你 know,
爱情 is all we need
We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just 你 and me
Send them your 心 so they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us 由 turning stones to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand
When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
But if 你 just believe there's no way we can fall
Let us realize that a change can only come
When we stand together as one
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all
We can't go on pretending 日 由 day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We are all a part of God's great big family
And the truth, 你 know,
爱情 is all we need
We are the world, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just 你 and me
Send them your 心 so they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us 由 turning stones to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand
When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
But if 你 just believe there's no way we can fall
Let us realize that a change can only come
When we stand together as one
Girlfriend
I'm gonna tell your boyfriend (yeah)
Tell him (woo hoo)
Exactly what we're doin' (yeah)
Tell him what 你 do to me
Late at night when the wind is free
Girlfriend
I'm gonna 显示 your boyfriend (yeah)
显示 him (woo hoo)
The letters I've been savin' (yeah)
显示 him how 你 feel inside
An' how 爱情 could not be denied (oh no)
We're gonna have to tell him
You'll only be a girlfriend of mine
Do-doot-do, etc.
Girlfriend
你 better tell your boyfriend (yeah)
Tell him (woo hoo)
Exactly what we're doin' (yeah)
Tell him what he needs to know
或者 he may never let 你 go
Yeah we're gonna have to tell him
You'll only be a girlfriend of mine
Do-doot-do ...... ad lib to fade
I'm gonna tell your boyfriend (yeah)
Tell him (woo hoo)
Exactly what we're doin' (yeah)
Tell him what 你 do to me
Late at night when the wind is free
Girlfriend
I'm gonna 显示 your boyfriend (yeah)
显示 him (woo hoo)
The letters I've been savin' (yeah)
显示 him how 你 feel inside
An' how 爱情 could not be denied (oh no)
We're gonna have to tell him
You'll only be a girlfriend of mine
Do-doot-do, etc.
Girlfriend
你 better tell your boyfriend (yeah)
Tell him (woo hoo)
Exactly what we're doin' (yeah)
Tell him what he needs to know
或者 he may never let 你 go
Yeah we're gonna have to tell him
You'll only be a girlfriend of mine
Do-doot-do ...... ad lib to fade
All 你 gotta do is just walk away and pass me 由
Don't acknowledge my smile when I try to say hello to you, yeah
And all 你 gotta do is not answer my calls when
I'm trying to get through
To keep me wondering why, when all I can do is sigh
I just wanna touch 你
Chorus
I just wanna touch and 吻乐队(Kiss)
And I wish that I could be with 你 tonight
你 give me 蝴蝶 inside, inside and I
All I gotta say is that I must be dreaming, can't be real
You're not here with me, still I can feel 你 near me
I caress you, let 你 taste us, just so blissful listen
I would give 你 anything baby, just make my dreams come true
Oh baby 你 give me 蝴蝶
Chorus x 2
If 你 would take my hand, baby I would 显示 你
Guide 你 to the light babe
If 你 would be my love, baby I will 爱情 you, 爱情 你
'Till the end of time
Chorus x 3
Don't acknowledge my smile when I try to say hello to you, yeah
And all 你 gotta do is not answer my calls when
I'm trying to get through
To keep me wondering why, when all I can do is sigh
I just wanna touch 你
Chorus
I just wanna touch and 吻乐队(Kiss)
And I wish that I could be with 你 tonight
你 give me 蝴蝶 inside, inside and I
All I gotta say is that I must be dreaming, can't be real
You're not here with me, still I can feel 你 near me
I caress you, let 你 taste us, just so blissful listen
I would give 你 anything baby, just make my dreams come true
Oh baby 你 give me 蝴蝶
Chorus x 2
If 你 would take my hand, baby I would 显示 你
Guide 你 to the light babe
If 你 would be my love, baby I will 爱情 you, 爱情 你
'Till the end of time
Chorus x 3