Records and Achievements of Michael Jackson - Other Records and Achievements

Other Records and Achievements

• Jackson has been credited with supporting more charities than any other artist - 39 charitable organizations - either with monetary donations through sponsorships of their projects or participation in their activities.
• David O. Selznick's 1940 Best Film Oscar for Gone with the Wind (USA, 1939) was bought by Jackson for $1,542,000 on June 12, 1999, at Sotheby's, New York City. The Academy Awards no longer permits such sales, all but ensuring that it will remain the most expensive Oscar.
• In 1995, Jackson financed the most expensive music video: ("Scream". The clip, which co-starred sister Janet Jackson, reportedly cost over US$7 million.
• On November 14, 1991, the debut of Michael Jackson’s music video Black or White was broadcast simultaneously in 27 countries, to the largest audience to view a music video: an estimated 500 million people.
• Jackson has 9 U.S. platinum singles, the second most by any male artist (Elvis Presley is first). Jackson has 13 # 1 singles in United States, which also trails Presley for the second most ever by a male solo artist.
• Jackson has the two best-selling VHS music videos ever released: "Moonwalker" (1988), and "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller (1984).
• Jackson has been given 372 recognized awards, which has been promoted as being the most for an artist. These include the most Grammy Awards and American Music Awards ever won in a single year. Jackson's eight Grammys at the 1984 ceremony were equalled only by the musical group Carlos Santana in 2001); his eight American Music Awards (also in 1984) were later matched by Whitney Houston in 1994. Jackson won four posthumous American Music Awards in 2009, raising his total to 26, the most by any artist. Jackson has won the most World Music Awards by a male artist, 16. Five of these came in 1996, tying Whitney Houston's record total from 1994. He has also won the most Billboard awards by a male artist, 26. Jackson's 13 Billboard awards in 1983 are the highest one-year total. In 2002, MTV awarded Jackson its one-off "Artist of the Millennium" award. Jackson was named the "Best Selling Male Artist of the Millennium" at the World Music Awards ceremony in 2000, and the "Artist Of The Century" at the American Music Awards ceremony in 2002. In 2006, the Guinness World Records identified Jackson as the "Most Successful Entertainer Of All Time", and the first performer to have sold 100 million albums outside the U.S. Also in 2006, Jackson was awarded the "Chopard Diamond award" at the World Music Awards. commemorating sales of over 100 million records.
• Jackson's Bad world tour (1987–1989) was the highest-grossing tour ever at the time, with over $125 million earned. This record was later broken by the Dangerous World Tour (1992–1993) and later broken again by the HIStory World Tour (1996–1997), which is still the biggest tour ever in terms of attendance (4.5 million tickets). 700,000 tickets were sold in about four hours for the cancelled "This Is It" concert series in 2009.
• While the bulk of his sales achievements have come in the fields of pop music and R&B, Jackson has also had success in subgenres. His Dangerous (1991) album (38 million sales worldwide) has been cited as the top-selling New Jack Swing album, while his Blood on the Dance Floor (6 million sales worldwide) is the biggest selling remix collection.
• Jackson's double album HIStory is the top-selling multiple disc album of all time. Though estimates of its worldwide sales total range as high as 21 million copies (42 million discs), over 11 million copies of "HIStory" are known to have been sold.
• Jackson was once one of the wealthiest entertainers in the world, with an estimated fortune of more than $750 million. In 2007, the Jackson estate's assets were calculated to be $1,360,839,979, with 85% of that total being Jackson's stake in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing song catalog that includes most of the Beatles' songs. Jackson also had sizeable debts that far outstripped his liquid cash total, which was just .05% of his net worth.
• Following his death, Jackson became the first artist to sell more than 2 million downloads in a week.
• Michael Jackson's This Is It is the top-grossing concert film and documentary film of all time. The posthumous movie has earned over $250 million worldwide to date. It also set a record for concert films with $103.9 million in worldwide ticket sales in its first five days of release. However, its opening weekend total did not match 2008's "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert", which brought in $31.1 million in its opening weekend despite opening in just 683 theaters. "This Is It" debuted in 3,481 U.S. theaters and earned $23.2 million. In 2011, Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never" took in $29.5 million during its opening weekend while playing in 3,105 theaters.
• On March 16, 2010, Sony Music Entertainment signed a record-breaking $250 million deal with Jackson's estate to retain distribution rights to his recordings until 2017 and release seven posthumous albums—some of which will feature unreleased material—over the next decade.
• According to Nokia's Ovi Music Store, Jackson is recognized as the most downloaded artist of all time.
• In August 2010, Jackson became the 44th dancer/choreographer inducted into the National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame, and the hall's first inductee from the world of rock and roll.