viernes, 15 de abril de 2011

RECORDS

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  • Youngest artist to win a Billboard Awards 
  • Win a Golden Globe for "Ben" and was nominated for the Oscars.
  • First solo artist to get 4 top 10 singles of the same album in USA  “Don’t Stop ‘Til you Get Enough”, “Off The Wall”, “Rock With you” y “She’s Out Of My Life”
  • First solo artist to get 5 singles top 10 of the same album in U.K “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”, Off The Wall”, “Rock With You”, She’s Out Of My Life” y “Girlfriend”
  • First album in history to reach No. 1 in the American and English simultaneously(Thriller)
  • First song / single in history to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Rock and R & simultaneously (Billie Jean)
  • Youngest male artist to sell 10 million copies of one album in USA 
  • Highest number of awards and nominations collected by a group or artist in a single year: over 50
  •  Greater number of singles that have reached the top 10 in the same year "The Girl Is Mine," "Billie Jean" "Beat It", "Wanna Be Startin Somethin'," Human Nature" PYT," "Say Say Say "
  • First and only album in history that has started and finished the year being No. 1 in theBillboard charts (Thriller)
  • Highest number of Grammy awards in one year achieved 9 awards
  • Higher profits in a performance for a charity show (We Are The World: 60 million dollars)
  • the commercial one but seen in the history of the television
  • First artist to have 3 albums in the U.S. with sales exceeding 6 million "Off The Wall", "Thriller" and "Bad"
  • Video clip most watched in history ("Black Or White" - more than 500 million peopleworldwide saw its release on November 11, 1991)
  • Wider transmision of a music video in the history of MTV ("Black Or White")
  • First and only artist or group that has been number 1 in the 60's, 70, 80 and 90
  • Youngest artist to receive the Grammy Legend Award (Michael Jackson 34 years)
  • Best-selling rock single of all time ("Black Or White" 5 million copies)
  • Prime audience in the history of cable TV (approximately 250 million people watchedthe concert in Bucharest Dangerous World Tour)
  • Highest paid televised concert in history (HBO paid $ 20 million by the DangerousWorld Tour in Bucharest)
  • Prime audience in television history (133.4 million viewers watched the performanceof Michael Jackson in the final of the Superbowl)
  • Best-selling remix album of all time "Blood On The Dance Floor" 5 million copies.
  • Highest number of awards Artist of the Millennium (World Music Awards, AmericanMusic Awards)
  • Fastest selling tickets of history for the 50 special concerts at the O2 Arena in London.(Approximately 1 million tickets sold in 5 hours.)

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jueves, 14 de abril de 2011

VIDEOS

Michael is characterized by making the best videos with amazing choreography and dancing.




This video is the trailer and the song of the movie this is it, where it shows the last trials of the king of pop.
This movie collect 261 millions USD in 15 days in the movie theaters.


 
this is the last musical video of album of MJ





DISCOGRAPHY




Got to Be There (1972) Ben (1972) Music and Me (1973) Forever, Michael (1975) Off the Wall (1979) Thriller (1982) Bad (1987) Dangerous (1991) HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995) Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997) Invincible (2001) This Is It (2009) Michael (2010)



     
    
   


   

  



BACKGROUND INFORMATION

MJ has achieved about 80 records for different reasons.


Michael Jackson, one of the most widely beloved entertainers and profoundly influential artists of all-time, leaves an indelible imprint on popular music and culture.
Five of Jackson's solo albums - "Off the Wall," "Thriller," "Bad," "Dangerous" and "HIStory," all with Epic Records - are among the top-sellers of all time and “Thriller” holds the distinction as the largest selling album worldwide in the history of the recording industry with more than 70 million units sold. Additionally, singles released from the Thriller album sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, another all time record.

Michael Jackson spent much of their efforts and financial resources for humanitarian aid, and was recognized worldwide for millions of donations: $ 300 million donated to charitable causes.


During his extraordinary career, he sold an estimated 750 million records worldwide, released 13 No.1 singles and became one of a handful of artists to be inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Guinness Book of World Records recognized Jackson as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time and "Thriller" as the Biggest Selling Album of All Time. Jackson won 15 Grammy Awards and received the American Music Award's Artist of the Century Award Jackson was inducted into the  Hall of Fame and the Songwriters in 2002 later in the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame in 2010It is the only artist to have two stars on the Walk of Fame, obtained as Michael Jacksonand as a member of The Jackson 5.

Michael Jackson started in the music business at the age of 11 with his brothers as a member of the Jackson 5. In the early 1980s, he defined the art form of music video with such ground-breaking videos as "Billie Jean," "Beat It" and the epic "Thriller." Jackson's sound, style and dance moves inspired subsequent generations of pop, soul, R&B and hip-hop artists.




MICHAEL JACKSON

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MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON

BORN: August 29, 1958 Gary, Indiana, U.S.

DIED: June 25,2009 "THE LEGENDS NEVER DIE, ALWAYS REMAIN IN OUR 
HEARTS" 

GENRES: R&B, Pop, Rock, Soul, Dance,New jack swing, Funk, Disco.

OCCUPATIONS: Singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, musician, dancer, choreographer, actor, businessman, philanthropist;

Nickname: The King of Pop, MJ