{"id":65,"date":"2007-07-16T22:43:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjstar.com\/news\/?p=65"},"modified":"2007-07-16T22:43:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T21:43:36","slug":"thriller-number-ones-continue-to-sell-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjstar.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/07\/thriller-number-ones-continue-to-sell-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Thriller &#038; Number Ones Continue To Sell Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.info\/counter572.js'><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjstar.com\/05.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"michael jackson\" height=\"100\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 100px\" title=\"michael jackson\" \/>Much of the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll and pop canon is well established.Buying the albums of `60s and `70s acts like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley<!--more-->\u00a0is akin to a rite of passage for any young music fan. These are the artists that baby boomers love to keep buying, and with whom seemingly every teenager at some point experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the `80s and `90s are ancient history, what albums are people still buying from those decades? Do critical favorites like Radiohead and the Pixies grow more popular with time? Or do the Backstreet Boys and Madonna still rule the charts?<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jackson, of course, still has one of the most desirable back catalogs. His best- selling &#8220;Thriller&#8221; moves over 60,000 copies a year and his &#8220;Number Ones&#8221; collection yielded 162,000 sales last year.<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll and pop canon is well established.Buying the albums of `60s and `70s acts like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-jackson-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thriller &amp; Number Ones Continue To Sell Big - Michael Jackson MJSTAR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mjstar.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/07\/thriller-number-ones-continue-to-sell-big\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thriller &amp; 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