Sometimes rules should be torn down or at least changed, is the case for the rule of Billboard that the album does not allow older than 18 months and have fallen at least once under the 100 position that it can not be part of the main classification (the “Top 200 “) but only of the league called” Catalog chart “, for the album and then considered” old. ”

In almost all countries (including Italy) fortunately there is this distinction and the album “old” appear regularly ‘s rankings of general in the U.S., however this does not happen. If this usually is not a major problem, since the album “catalog” sold more copies 10/15.000 sells on average in a week (enough to get into a top40 general), in the case of Michael Jackson things change a lot.

The death of Michael Jackson, as we have anticipated all relatively ‘England is literally distorting the market discography some’ all over the world. Not be outdone the U.S. where, according to projections HitsDailyDouble, three albums of Jackson ( “Thriller,” “The Essential” and “Number Ones”) are respectively first, second and third in a hypothetical ranking also inclusive of “catalog albums” with approximately 100,000 copies in the head (three days), beating the one that will almost certainly be the No. 1 “official” classification, that ‘s last album of Black Eyed Peas.

In the next few hours, or at the latest tomorrow, if we Billboard has decided to make an exception to the rule and “Thriller” returns officially leading the U.S. for the 38th week. We hope to you, because it would be unfair (and a little ‘ridiculous) get on top of the league an album that is not really the best selling of the week.

Minute update: The latest updates seem to confirm that the rule was, unfortunately, met in a news right out on the Billboard site was announced that the album of Michael Jackson were not included in the ranking, but only in the main “Catalog chart” where she placed 9 albums in the top 9th The best selling was “Number Ones” followed by “The Essential” and “Thriller” in contrast to the projections HitsDailyDouble a few hours ago that gave ‘s head. These are the data on the news spread from Billboard:

1) Number Ones 108,000
2) The Essential 102000
3) Thriller 101000
4) Off the Wall 33000
5) The Ultimate Collection (Jackson 5) 18.000
6) Bad 17.000
7) Dangerous 14000
Greatest Hits: HIStory – Volume 1 12000
9) The Ultimate Collection 11000

This week is the first in the history of the league in which an American album “catalog” sells more than the first position (the Black Eyed Peas with 88,000 copies). Recalling that includes only three days of detection, Michael has scored a total of 415,000 copies with the album (the last week were “only” 10,000). As for the individual, considering the songs with the Jackson 5, Michael has totaled 2.6 million downloads (last week were just 48.000) becoming the first artist to share exceed 1 million downloads in one week.