Michael Jackson’s Greatest Hits Tops UK Album Chart 17 Years After His Death
Michael Jackson’s 2005 compilation, The Essential Michael Jackson, is the UK’s best-selling album of 2026 so far. It recorded more than 508,000 chart units in the first nine months of the year, according to the Official Charts Company. The album finished ahead of Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving and Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. Jackson’s classic albums Thriller and Bad also returned to the UK Top 20. Renewed interest in Jackson’s catalogue has followed the success of Michael, the biopic starring his nephew Jaafar Jackson. Sony Music said streams of his music rose to around four times their pre-release level after the film’s release.
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