Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Michael Jackson Album Swamped in Sales this Week by Coldplay

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The “Xscape” phenom is over. Billboard put it at number 2 in its debut, hitsdailydouble.com gave it number 1. But even Hits concedes the part is over. “Xscape” sold 161K copes in its first week. Hits predicts  a 50% drop to 80K in the second week which ends Sunday night. Coldplay’s “Ghost Stories,” they say, will come in around 360K. 380K. Country star Brantley Gilbert will pluck his strings at between 200 and 220k. The so called hologram didn’t help Jackson. “Xscape” was a valiant try. The Jackson estate should start releasing live albums. And put the hologram away. Creepy creepy creepy.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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