Michael Jackson Fans Won’t Stop Till They Get Enough (of His CDs, That Is)
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Were you impressed last week when you learned that over 800,000 people actually decided to purchase one of Michael Jackson's albums instead of stealing them off the Internet? Well then, wait till you get a load of this: Sales of MJ's album catalogue tallied 1.1 million units this past week (!), an insane increase of 37 percent from the week before. He has now sold 2.3 million albums Stateside since his death on June 25. [Billboard]

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