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From: rpk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Krajewski)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Sales: PF and MJ
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Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 22:56:56 EST
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``Thriller''  probably outsold ``Dark Side'' after its first month of release --
I'm not sure where you got your information, but DSOM only went platinum in
1982 and has been  more of a *steady* seller than a smash hit.  The only area
in which Thriller does not surpass DSOM (sales-wise) is total number
of weeks on the Billboard Top 200 album chart -- about 11 years.  It still
might be on there; I haven't checked lately.

Thriller is not the biggest selling album of all time (> 31 million copies),
just the biggest album of the rock era (and MJ's previous effort, Off the Wall,
didn't do so bad, either -- 8 million).  I think the Soundtrack to South
Pacific is the biggest seller of all time with about 40 million.
-- 
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