The Daily Swarm

From this morning:

#1 – Essential Michael Jackson
#2 – Thriller
#3 – Number Ones
#4 – Off The Wall
#5 – Thriller (25th Anniversary Edition / Zombie Edition)
#9 – Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection
#10 – Bad
#12 – Dangerous
#13 – Michael Jackson Greatest Hits
#19 – Off The Wall (Special Edition)
#21 – Jackson 5 : Ultimate Collection
#23 – Thriller (25th Anniversary Deluxe)
#28 – HIStory
#29 – Invincible
#34 – Thriller (25th Anniversarhy Deluxe)
#36 – We Are The World EP
#45 – HIStory (different version)
#46 – Michael Jackson Video Triple Play
#65 – Anthology : Best of Michael Jackson (Motown)
#78 – Anthology : Best of The Jackson Five
#99 – 20th Century Masters : The Jackson Five

Cult of Mac (6:47 pm, June 25th, 2009)

Just hours after his untimely death, Michael Jackson’s albums are storming the charts on iTunes.

Jackson’s seminal album Thriller is currently the number one album on iTunes, while The Essential Michael Jackson is number two.

Severel of his other albums are climbing the charts fast. At the time of writing (about 6.45 PST) Jackson has nine albums in the iTunes top 40:

Thriller (25th Anniversary, Zombie Cover) is #7; Off the Wall is #9; The Ultimate Collection is #12; Number Ones is #13; Bad is #22; Greatest Hits is #27; Dangerous is #29; and Thriller (25th Anniversary, Deluxe Edition) is #28.

Jackson is the best-selling artist of all time. He sold more than 750 million albums worldwide, and Thriller, produced by the genius Quincy Jones, sold an estimated 100 million copies worldwide.

I expect Apple to post a homepage tribute, and Jackson’s albums to dominate the chart by the morning.