{"id":472309,"date":"2026-05-07T03:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472309\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:30:22","slug":"michael-jackson-shatters-his-best-streaming-week-total-after-biopic-release-as-catalog-floods-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472309\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Shatters His Best Streaming Week Total After Biopic Release, as Catalog Floods Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confirming projections reported<\/a> in late April, Michael Jackson<\/a> obliterates his personal-best domestic streaming week following the release of the Michael biopic. The King of Pop\u2019s solo song catalog registered a collective 137.5 million official on-demand streams for the week of April 24-30 in the United States, according to Luminate, up 146% and more than doubling his previous career high.<\/p>\n

Before his nine-digit streaming haul, Jackson\u2019s solo catalog achieved a new personal benchmark last week at 55.9 million song clicks. Prior to the Michael era, the late icon, who died in 2009, recorded a high of 53.7 million for the week of Oct. 25-31, 2019, spurred by the now-annual Halloween resurgence for \u201cThriller.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Michael covers Jackson\u2019s life from 1966 to 1988, including time with both The Jackson 5<\/a> and The Jacksons<\/a> groups with his brothers. As such, those acts\u2019 catalogs experience massive increases too, with the former\u2019s songs pulling 10.1 million streams in the tracking week, up 135% from the previous week\u2019s 4.3 million. The Jacksons, meanwhile, surge to 4.9 million clicks for their tracks, up 57% from 2.1 million last week.<\/p>\n

The streaming eruption fuels Jackson to several appearances across the week\u2019s Billboard charts. For starters, the legend races 29-3 on the Billboard Artist 100<\/a>, a multimetric chart indicating artist popularity from streaming, digital song sales, radio airplay and album sales.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, his landmark album Thriller re-enters the Billboard 200<\/a> at No. 7, with 45,000 equivalent album units (a 425% weekly improvement). It\u2019s the album\u2019s best showing since reaching the same position in December 2022 after a 40th anniversary reissue. Excluding that celebration, Thriller last ranked higher on the chart dated June 2, 1984, at No. 6. Just weeks before, the blockbuster wrapped 37 weeks at No. 1 across 1983-1984, still the most weeks at No. 1 by an album by a singular artist in the chart\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Thriller classic \u201cBillie Jean\u201d leads the song recap, as it repeats its usual standing as the catalog\u2019s most streamed song (9.4 million) and returns to the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> at No. 38. Dating to its 1983 debut, the iconic Hot 100 leader<\/a> adds its 26th week on the list.<\/p>\n

Beyond Thriller, Jackson lands two more albums in the top 40 of the Billboard 200: His 2004 set Number Ones pushes 20-12 via 37,000 equivalent album units, while the biopic\u2019s official soundtrack, Michael: Songs From the Motion Picture, starts at No. 37. The latter gives Jackson his 18th top 40 project, and first since 2017\u2019s Scream reached No. 33.<\/p>\n

Jackson expands his scope in the R&B realm, with 10 titles on the 50-position Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a> chart. \u201cBillie Jean\u201d heads the pack, at No. 5, followed by \u201cBeat It\u201d (No. 9), \u201cHuman Nature\u201d (No. 10), \u201cDon\u2019t Stop \u2018til You Get Enough\u201d (No. 11), \u201cRock With You\u201d (No. 13), \u201cP.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)\u201d (No. 17), \u201cThe Way You Make Me Feel\u201d (No. 20), \u201cSmooth Criminal\u201d (No. 22), \u201cRemember the Time\u201d (No. 23), \u201cDirty Diana\u201d (No. 24) and \u201cMan in the Mirror\u201d (No. 25). Notably, both \u201cHuman Nature\u201d and \u201cP.Y.T.\u201d earn new peaks on the ranking, surpassing their respective Nos. 27 and 46 prior maximums.<\/p>\n

The activity around Jackson\u2019s material echoes the record-setting opening for Michael, which generated a huge commercial response. The film, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Jackson\u2019s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the title role, grossed $97 million in its first weekend in the U.S. and Canada and $218.8 million worldwide, both the highest ever opening figures<\/a> for a biopic.<\/p>\n

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