LAST EDITED ON 07-09-09 AT 08:21 AM (EST)

Two weeks after his passing, Michael Jackson continues to dominate sales. Tough time to be launching a new cd for any AIer. AI put out the season 8 compilation cd this week.

The summary:

http://mjsbigblog.com/michael-jackson-sells-800k-albums.htm

ETA: another article on MJ's posthumous success: http://tinyurl.com/lc252n

The numbers:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/idolchatter/2009/07/season-8-compilation-tops-this-weeks-american-idol-albums.html

http://mjsbigblog.com/idol-sales-news-week-ending-070509.htm

Digital Downloads
42 Jordin Sparks “Battlefield” 47,147 (-7%; lw 50,876) Total: 338,613 (40)
61 Daughtry “No Surprise” 34,706 (-9%; lw 38,082) Total: 409,526 (54)
<62-65> Kellie Pickler “Best Days of Your Life” 32,000 (-4%) Total: 579,000
<67-70> Kelly Clarkson “I Do Not Hook Up” 30,000 (-5%) Total: 506,000 **NOW GOLD**
<110-115> Kelly Clarkson “My Life Would Suck Without You” 17,000 (-12%) Total: 1.993 million
<120-135> David Cook “Come Back to Me” 15,000 (-7%) Total: 247,000
Kris Allen “Heartless: 6,000 (-12%) Total: 270,000

Albums:

34 Various “American Idol Season 8″ 14,000 (NEW) Total: 14,000 total
Kelly Clarkson “All I Ever Wanted” 7,000 (-6%) Total: 636,000 Digital: 1,000 (5%) Total: 136,000
Carrie Underwood “Carnival Ride” 6,000 (-14%) Total: 2.918 million
Kellie Pickler “Kellie Pickler” 6,000 (-1%) Total: 261,000
David Cook “David Cook” 5,000 (-3%) Total: 1.195 million Digital: 1,000 (-1%) Total: 146,000
Daughtry “Daughtry” 4,000 (-13%) Total: 4.483 million Digital Total: 372,000 digital
Carrie Underwood “Some Hearts” 4,000 (3%) Total: 6.808 million
Michael Johns “Hold Back My Heart” 2,000 (-51%) Total: 7,000 Digital Total:3,000
Adam Lambert “Season 8 Favorite Performances” 1,000 (3%) Total: 34,000

Michael Jackson
2 Michael Jackson ” Man in The Mirror” 159,487 (-3%; lw 164,642) Total: 633,303 (3)
4 JMichael Jackson “Billie Jean” 145,524 (-8%; lw 158,493) Total: 1,230,454 (4)
5 Michael Jackson “Thriller” 139,433 (-17%; lw 167,444) Total: 1,541,330 (2)
7 Michael Jackson “Way You Make Me Feel” 123,404 (-9%; lw 136,330) Total: 661,868 (6)
10 Michael Jackson “Beat It” 115,865 (-13%; lw 133,765) Total: 978,002 (7)
13 Michael Jackson “Black Or White” 101.665 (-7%; lw 109,584) Total: 400,888 (13)
14 Michael Jackson “Smooth Criminal” 96,899 (-13%; lw 111,118) Total: 553,827 (12) **NOW GOLD**
16 Michael Jackson “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” 92,711 (-26%; lw 125,332) Total: 882,179 (9)
18 Michael Jackson “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)” 83,163 (-21%; lw 105,801) Total: 646,305 (14)
21 Michael Jackson “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” 76,313 (-1%; lw 76,859) Total: 456914 (20)
23 Michael Jackson “Rock With You” 66,944 (-25%; lw 89,581) Total: 466,941 (17)
24 Michael Jackson “Bad” 65,949 (-11%; lw 73,718) Total: 292,153 (23)
28 Michael Jackson “You Are Not Alone” 60,347 (-10%; lw 66,827) Total: 215,720 (28)
32 Michael Jackson “Dirty Diana” 57,949 (-7%; lw 62,433) Total: 258,929 (32)
40 Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There” 50,139 (-24%; lw 65,873) Total: 335,183 (29)
43 Jackson 5 “ABC” 46,625 (-22%; lw 60,052) Total: 603,744 (34)
44 Michael Jackson “Remember The Time” 45,332 (-23%; lw 58,748) Total: 221,073 (35)
46 Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” 44,434 (-31%; lw 64,186) Total: 606,797 (OFF)
47 Michael Jackson “Human Nature” 44,126 (-23%; lw 57,138) Total: 236,281 (37)
59 Michael Jackson “Will You Be There” 35,482 (-15%; lw 41,816) Total: 162,988 (48)
66 Michael Jackson “They Don’t Care About Us” 31,072 (167%; lw 11,621) Total: 66,124 (169)
74 Jacksons “Shake Your Body (Down To the Ground)” 28,967 (-29%; lw 40,877) Total: 216,308 (50)
75 Michael Jackson “Off the Wall” 28,166 (-31%; lw 40,809) Total: 196,865 (51)
77 Michael Jackson “You Rock My World” 27,882 (-17%; lw 33,426) Total: 149,091 (62)
79 Michael Jackson “Scream” 27,162 (-9%; lw 29,715) Total: 126,510 (70)
94 U.S.A. For Africa “We Are The World” 21,635 (-20%; lw 27,033) Total: 170,839 (78)
102 Michael Jackson “Ben” 19.510 (-33%; lw 29,082) Total: 109,409 (75)
103 Jackson 5 “Never Can Say Goodbye” 19,130 (-35%; lw 29,493) Total: 134,762 (72)
104 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson “Say Say Say” 18,890 (13%; lw 16,685) Total: 69,195 (120)
107 Michael Jackson “Leave Me Alone” 18,497 (3%; lw 17,930) Total: 62,527 (112)
109 Michael Jackson “Girl is Mine” 17,794 (-29%; lw 24,919) Total: 107,316 (84)
113 Michael Jackson “Heal the World” 16,982 (-7%; lw 18,247) Total: 68,148 (109)
125 Michael Jackson “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” 15,440 (-20%; lw 19,311) Total: 71,075 (108)
127 Jacksons “Can You Feel It?” 15,331 (-13%; lw 17,657) Total: 98,362 (116)
131 Michael Jackson “She’s Out of My Life” 15,028 (-30%; lw 21,577) Total: 84,512 (91)
135 Michael Jackson “In The Closet” 14,687 (-13%; lw 16,960) Total: 61,562 (119)
141 Jackson 5 “Got To Be There” 13,836 (-32%; lw 20,361) Total: 81,998 (96)
142 Michael Jackson “Working Day and Night” 13,445 (-31%; lw 19,598) Total: 77,589 (100)
143 Michael Jackson “Lady In My Life” 13,287 (-12%; lw 15,128) Total: 69,397 (137)
156 Michael Jackson “Give in To Me” 12,044 (-4%; lw 12,506) Total: 40,890 (158)
158 Michael Jackson “Another Part of Me” 11,936 (-7%; lw 12,805) Total: 45,121 (152)
160 Jackson 5 “Love You Save” 11,897 (-33%; lw 17,765) Total: 108.690 (115)
164 Michael Jackson “Who is It” 11,652 (6%; lw 11,025) Total: 39.570 (178)
176 Jackson 5 “Who’s Lovin’ You” 10,843 (-29%; lw 15,288) Total: 63,714 (136)
184 Jackson 5 “Dancing Machine” 10,294 (-37%; lw 16,375) Total: 118,878 (125)
189 Michael Jackson “Rockin’ Robin” 10,208 (-30%; lw 14,510) Total: 116,440 (143)
192 Michael Jackson “Earth Song” 10,144 (2%; lw 9,907) Total: 42,768 (195)