Talk:Dangerous (album)

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Contents 1 Actual U.S Sales 2 chart trajectory 3 Soundscan data 4 nirvana 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Michaeljacksondangerous.jpg

[edit] Actual U.S Sales

According to the RIAA, Dangerous has shipped 7 million copies in total throughout the United States. Of those 7 million shipments according to Nielsen Soundscan, 5.8 million have been sold over-the-counter. Therefore I have made some revisions to the sales table on this page.

[edit] chart trajectory

why do vandals continue to remove chart trajectory????? I find it offensive that only Michael Jackson is targetted in this vandalism of album pages. please stop it and I implore everyone to fight these vandals. --121.208.67.44 11:55, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

It's not vandals; it's policy. see WP:MUSIC/CHARTS#Chart_trajectories--Ashadeofgrey^Talk 11:58, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Soundscan data

I have removed the data surrounding the 9m in sales inclusive of Soundscan and World Music Club. Reasoning is as follows - that Soundscan covers all RIAA certification sales, these are not additional. Refer also [1] which gives a weeks data from Soundscan for MJ sales - and when he was having in increase in sales. 500 units for Dangerous for the week, 200 the previous week. Even if you take the higher figure and say he managed this for the full 7 years since last creditation, this comes to 200,000 units total. I know it's speculation, but the figure isn't even close to 2 million. World Club sales may double this, but still 0.4 million only. Others have estimated 0.5 million, and this certainly seems more correct. 60.234.242.196 10:45, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] nirvana

Nirvana's initial success in the mainstream was punctuated by the fact that they knocked this album out of the #1 spot -- why no mention? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.224.68.67 (talk) 20:31, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Michaeljacksondangerous.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:32, 8 March 2008 (UTC)