Michael Jackson Sells 2.6 Million Downloads This Week

It's easy to forget how good something is until it's gone. I guess this is also the case with the king of pop, whose musical career wasn't exactly soaring in the past decade, but now that Jackson has passed away, everyone remembers him for the good, old, unforgettable hits he'd given us in the 80s. And, apparently, everyone is buying them, because, based on preliminary sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan, 2.6 million Michael Jackson (his work with Jackson 5 and the Jacksons included) digital downloads were sold in just one week.

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