Brandon Penny

[Brandon Penny @MJJsourceEU]

Mám pre teba zaujímavý album...HIStory - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE - BOOK I od Michael Jackson 🤩 Počúvaj teraz cez #Deezer https://t.co/exScEllLnD

[Jael Rucker @RuckerJael]

The expanded rollout for the Mj books begins this month! It’s been an incredible success so far, and I can’t wait to see what it does in other stores 🙏🏽✨

[Karen Faye @wingheart]

I recognize my own work, and the products I used. If you look closely you cans see MJ’s fine baby hairs(just one example). His beard shadow under the make up, make up on his ears, no eyebrow or eyeliner or lip stick. I even recognize the dark gold shadow I used to shadow his nose

[Katerina @thenarratives_]

Bad — The Paradox of Success

By June 1987, as anticipation grew for Michael Jackson’s forthcoming album *Bad*, *SPIN* was reporting on its prolonged production schedule, the expectations surrounding the release, and the commercial arrangements already connected to it.

Advertising commitments, corporate partnerships, and an ambitious short film directed by Martin Scorsese formed part of the preparations.

Seven weeks before the album’s release, on July 13, 1987, CBS Records brought approximately fifty invited guests, including representatives of its largest retail accounts, to Los Angeles for a private presentation of Bad.

The guests were flown in by CBS and accommodated at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where they attended a listening party.

They were then taken by limousine to Jackson’s home in Encino for dinner with senior CBS executives, including Walter Yetnikoff and Al Teller.

Jackson was present.

Among those at the presentation was Howard Applebaum, head of Kemp Mill Records. Speaking to The Washington Post, Applebaum expressed admiration for Bad, while observing that “a lot of its success will depend on whether people want to like it or not.”

He cited the five years since Thriller, the possible burnout of “Michaelmania,” and the media’s fascination with Jackson’s eccentricity.

Despite the industry's considerable preparations, the question of how audiences would respond remained open.

Yet by the time Bad was released on August 31, advance orders had exceeded 2.25 million copies. Jim Caparro, Epic’s vice president of sales, described the figure to Billboard as, to his knowledge, the largest preorder in CBS history.

The commercial evidence was already emerging. Within the first three days of release, retailers had placed approximately half a million additional orders, according to Billboard.

Just over four months after its release, *The Washington Post* reported worldwide sales of 11 million copies.

Against these figures, an earlier observation by Rolling Stone becomes particularly striking:

“If Bad sells ‘only’ 10 million copies, that will be more than virtually any other record but could be viewed as a failure for Michael Jackson.”

And here is where the question arises: By what standard was Bad being judged?

Louis Kwiker, president of Wherehouse Entertainment and another attendee at the CBS presentation, had questioned that very standard weeks before the album’s release:

“So the question is what are you going to measure it against--everything else that has happened in the marketplace in the last couple of years, or the greatest-selling album of all time?”

By September 1991, Bad had sold 24 million copies worldwide. As Richard Harrington reported in The Washington Post, Jackson then held the two best-selling albums by a single artist: Thriller and Bad.

Here lies the paradox.

Jackson had created the ultimate benchmark against which the entire music industry would be measured — and it would measure no one more harshly than him.

[오독오독 @bgLight2]

가끔 방심한 순간에 이런 얼굴을 마주하면 심장이 쿵 내려앉곤해

[Brandon Penny @MJJsourceEU]

@Mjvibe It's Karen's experience.
So the fan community says she's lying?

[Brandon Penny @MJJsourceEU]

@lancecheek

[Cris @cris_rys7]

MJ ESTATE VIA INSTAGRAM!!!!
They woke up after 0 Halloween promotion! 💀💀💀

[#MJINNOCENT @MJInnocentUK]

https://t.co/K2wWcOkjSe

[Brandon Penny @MJJsourceEU]

@JamesP0112 You are the big moron taking bs.
Elizabeth Taylor said in 1989:
The king of pop, rock and soul

But the title was given to MJ in 1984 by the media after Thriller became the best seller globally.

[Brandon Penny @MJJsourceEU]

@JamesP0112 @Forbes Its statistics by numbers.
The best seller in popular music.

[King Of Pop Edits @KingPopEdits]

Michael has been nominated for Best International Film at the 51st Hochi Film Awards in Japan.

Winners are expected to be announced in late November.
#Michael #HochiFilmAwards #Japan

[ʝia ⎚-⎚ @scaredoftmoon]

Wade Robson rebranding himself into a instagram trauma guru while harassing people into joining his lawsuit to the point they had to ask for a restraining order is the biggest example. They questioned his motive about "vindicating" children and exposed his sociopathic nature

[chart radar @chartradar_]

Some of Michael Jackson’s records that are yet to be broken:

1. World Most Famous Celebrity
2. Most Photographed Person in History
3. World Most Stylish Artist
4. Most Googled Artist in History
5. King of Pop
6. The Greatest Dancer in History
7. Highest Grossing Music Biopic of All Time
8. Most celebrated Artist for Halloween
9. Best Selling Solo Artist of All Time
10. The Highest Earnings for A celebrity dead or Alive in any Year ($825M).

[Brandon Penny @MJJsourceEU]

@JamesP0112 @Forbes

[Brandon Penny @MJJsourceEU]

@JamesP0112 @Forbes This is the answer...
Nobody gives a fucking shit about some James Taylor.

[Brandon Penny @MJJsourceEU]

@Forbes

[Forbes @Forbes]

Since his death in 2009, the King of Pop’s estate has grown into a multibillion dollar entertainment powerhouse and accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. His daughter Paris Jackson wants $600 million for her and her brothers now.
Read more: https://t.co/WQloRXPDJx
📸: Mark Junge via Getty Images

[Akhil Jackson @AkhilJaxxn]

In 2015, Billboard named Adele’s 21 #1 on its Greatest Albums list (245 chart wks, 81 at #10, 24 at #1)
& MJ’s Thriller #3 (under 245, 78 Top 10, 37 at #1). 11 years later, their #1 totals are unchanged, but Thriller has 742 chart wks & 95 #10, vs. 21's 617 & 82. Time to revisit!

[Karen Faye @wingheart]

Michael saw this photo and wanted to reproduce it