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http://www.nypost.com/seven/02212008/busin...eat_i_98664.htm
Jackson'S BACKO, BUT BILLBOARD SAYS, 'BEAT IT'
By BRIAN GARRITY
February 21, 2008 -- If only this tussle could be settled by a "Beat It"-style dance fight.
Sony BMG is hopping mad at music industry trade bible Billboard for keeping the newly released 25th Anniversary edition of Michael Jackson's landmark mega-hit "Thriller" off its main album chart, despite that it is the second-biggest selling CD in the country this week.
The update on "Thriller" sold 166,000 copies, besting the post-Grammy Awards bumps enjoyed by winners Amy Winehouse and Herbie Hancock.
That's the most a re-release of a record has sold in over a decade. Catalog albums often sell between 30,000 and 70,000 on the high side in a given week.
But Billboard typically leaves sales of older albums - including reissues featuring new bonus tracks - off the Billboard 200 so the chart can act as a barometer of sales for new music and new compilations.
Sony BMG, which is reissuing "Thriller" via its Legacy catalog division, wanted an exception because it is releasing the album with four new re-mixes of classic hits featuring contemporary popstars will.i.am, Fergie, Akon and Kanye West.
Sony BMG's Epic Records is pushing the Akon and will.i.am remix version of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" at pop radio stations - a rare move when reissuing an album.
The label was hoping to piggyback on buzz from weekly media chatter over the album chart, as it attempts to dig Jackson's music reputation out from under his personal tabloid image. "Thriller" 's absence from Billboard 200 is the latest marketing setback for the album, which was also supposed to benefit from an appearance on the Grammy's that never happened.
However, Billboard director of charts Geoff Mayfield said that the magazine will still give "Thriller" proper credit in other, albeit lesser-known, charts, including a blended sales chart that combines both new and catalog albums.
"At the end of the day this is still a 25-year-old album," he said. |
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