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MJ's death causes the internet to crash
Topic Started: Jun 26 2009, 01:28 PM (329 Views)
DarkCloudLives

Sites like Google News, Twitter, TMZ, Perez Hilton.com, Wikipedia, the LATimes.com and even AOL's Instant Messenger service which posts news were brought to their knees yesterday. CNN.com even had 20 million unique visitors in one hour which is 5 times their average and an estimated 30 percent of all tweets from Twitter yesterday were about Michael Jackson.



Also there were rumors that Jeff Goldblum and Harrison Ford had died shortly after MJ. All untrue.
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kknd
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It's not the king for nothing, RIP MJ.
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MJ has nine of the top 10 albums on iTunes right now. :lol2:
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Amazon.com sold out all MJ cds just minutes after his death was announced.
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I rolled into work today and found out that all of our MJ cds had been sold in one evening. And we had about 20 of them. Someone actually sold us Off the Wall earlier this evening and it was sold within the hour. It was odd. Most of the people were asking for Thriller, but I'd been telling them all night that all we had was Off the Wall and the guy who bought it was like, "You have Off the Wall!? That's the one I was wanting!" It was funny to see him light up the way he did. :lol:
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kknd
Jun 26 2009, 06:31 PM
It's not the king for nothing, RIP MJ.
He was the king 20 years ago. How well were his albums selling before he died?
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squid5580
Jun 27 2009, 12:00 PM
kknd
Jun 26 2009, 06:31 PM
It's not the king for nothing, RIP MJ.
He was the king 20 years ago. How well were his albums selling before he died?
Uh, pretty damn well for the current music climate. You honestly think Michael's sales went into a black hole between 1989 and now?

Invincible from 2001 sold about three million copies, and Thriller 25 sold nearly a million copies a year back.

Michael Jackson is one of the world's most transcendent musicians period. He sold well when he was at his peak, he sold well when he was hanging children from balconies, he will continue to sell well posthumously.
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DarkCloudLives

Plus all 50 of his concerts in Europe that he was to start in a few months all sold out in a matter of seconds.
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Jun 27 2009, 01:10 PM
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Jun 27 2009, 12:00 PM
kknd
Jun 26 2009, 06:31 PM
It's not the king for nothing, RIP MJ.
He was the king 20 years ago. How well were his albums selling before he died?
Uh, pretty damn well for the current music climate. You honestly think Michael's sales went into a black hole between 1989 and now?

Invincible from 2001 sold about three million copies, and Thriller 25 sold nearly a million copies a year back.

Michael Jackson is one of the world's most transcendent musicians period. He sold well when he was at his peak, he sold well when he was hanging children from balconies, he will continue to sell well posthumously.
I think he was brilliant in marketing. Every little incidient was like a huge commercial for him. And if the marketing theory is correct and I am just immune to it (since I get annoyed whenever I see an ad for anything instead of wanting to run out and buy it) the more exposure equals more sales. Come on you can't tell me the balconey incident was worthy of 2 seconds of real news coverage yet for weeks that is all the media could talk about. Now if he had dropped the kid that would be newsworthy.
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squid5580
Jun 27 2009, 02:34 PM
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Jun 27 2009, 01:10 PM
squid5580
Jun 27 2009, 12:00 PM
kknd
Jun 26 2009, 06:31 PM
It's not the king for nothing, RIP MJ.
He was the king 20 years ago. How well were his albums selling before he died?
Uh, pretty damn well for the current music climate. You honestly think Michael's sales went into a black hole between 1989 and now?

Invincible from 2001 sold about three million copies, and Thriller 25 sold nearly a million copies a year back.

Michael Jackson is one of the world's most transcendent musicians period. He sold well when he was at his peak, he sold well when he was hanging children from balconies, he will continue to sell well posthumously.
I think he was brilliant in marketing. Every little incidient was like a huge commercial for him. And if the marketing theory is correct and I am just immune to it (since I get annoyed whenever I see an ad for anything instead of wanting to run out and buy it) the more exposure equals more sales. Come on you can't tell me the balconey incident was worthy of 2 seconds of real news coverage yet for weeks that is all the media could talk about. Now if he had dropped the kid that would be newsworthy.
The news media spends so much time talking about crap like that because they aren't really giving you the news. They are selling entertainment, that's all. But that is another topic for another day.
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squid5580
Jun 27 2009, 02:34 PM
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Jun 27 2009, 01:10 PM
squid5580
Jun 27 2009, 12:00 PM
kknd
Jun 26 2009, 06:31 PM
It's not the king for nothing, RIP MJ.
He was the king 20 years ago. How well were his albums selling before he died?
Uh, pretty damn well for the current music climate. You honestly think Michael's sales went into a black hole between 1989 and now?

Invincible from 2001 sold about three million copies, and Thriller 25 sold nearly a million copies a year back.

Michael Jackson is one of the world's most transcendent musicians period. He sold well when he was at his peak, he sold well when he was hanging children from balconies, he will continue to sell well posthumously.
I think he was brilliant in marketing. Every little incidient was like a huge commercial for him. And if the marketing theory is correct and I am just immune to it (since I get annoyed whenever I see an ad for anything instead of wanting to run out and buy it) the more exposure equals more sales. Come on you can't tell me the balconey incident was worthy of 2 seconds of real news coverage yet for weeks that is all the media could talk about. Now if he had dropped the kid that would be newsworthy.
I don't understand what you're trying to prove. You're suggesting his albums sales have been nothing in the past twenty years to go on to claim that when he has sold extremely well in the past twenty years it's because of marketing and not the material itself?

Michael Jackson's music is classic material. It will be relevant and it will sell for the next 50 years.
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Jun 27 2009, 04:30 PM
squid5580
Jun 27 2009, 02:34 PM
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Jun 27 2009, 01:10 PM
squid5580
Jun 27 2009, 12:00 PM
kknd
Jun 26 2009, 06:31 PM
It's not the king for nothing, RIP MJ.
He was the king 20 years ago. How well were his albums selling before he died?
Uh, pretty damn well for the current music climate. You honestly think Michael's sales went into a black hole between 1989 and now?

Invincible from 2001 sold about three million copies, and Thriller 25 sold nearly a million copies a year back.

Michael Jackson is one of the world's most transcendent musicians period. He sold well when he was at his peak, he sold well when he was hanging children from balconies, he will continue to sell well posthumously.
I think he was brilliant in marketing. Every little incidient was like a huge commercial for him. And if the marketing theory is correct and I am just immune to it (since I get annoyed whenever I see an ad for anything instead of wanting to run out and buy it) the more exposure equals more sales. Come on you can't tell me the balconey incident was worthy of 2 seconds of real news coverage yet for weeks that is all the media could talk about. Now if he had dropped the kid that would be newsworthy.
I don't understand what you're trying to prove. You're suggesting his albums sales have been nothing in the past twenty years to go on to claim that when he has sold extremely well in the past twenty years it's because of marketing and not the material itself?

Michael Jackson's music is classic material. It will be relevant and it will sell for the next 50 years.
Sorry I didn't say I was wrong in the other post. I figured it was implied when someone told me the numbers.
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squid5580
Jun 27 2009, 04:38 PM
Sorry I didn't say I was wrong in the other post. I figured it was implied when someone told me the numbers.
We're good. 8)
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