Michael Jackson's music sales more than 800,000 last week?

Michael Jackson's music sales keep soaring as fans purchased more than 800,000 of his albums last week, Billboard magazine said.

Vocal style

Jackson sang from childhood, and over time his voice and vocal style changed noticeably, either through puberty or a personal preference to align his vocal interpretation to the themes and genres he chose to express. Between 1971 and 1975, Jackson's voice "descended ever so slightly from boy soprano to his current androgynous high tenor".In early 1973, the singer adopted a "vocal hiccup", first heard in the song "It's Too Late to Change the Time" from the Jackson 5's G.I.T.: Get It Together album.Jackson did not employ the hiccup fully until the recording of Off the Wall; its usage can be seen in full force in the "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" promotional video. The purpose of the hiccup—somewhat like a gulping for air or gasping—was to help promote a certain emotion, be it excitement, sadness or fear.With the arrival of Off the Wall in the late 1970s, Jackson's abilities as a vocalist were well regarded; Allmusic described him as a "blindingly gifted vocalist".At the time, Rolling Stone compared his vocals to the "breathless, dreamy stutter" of Stevie Wonder. Their analysis was also that "Jackson's feathery-timbred tenor is extraordinarily beautiful. It slides smoothly into a startling falsetto that's used very daringly".1982 saw the release of Thriller, and Rolling Stone were of the opinion that Jackson was then singing in a "fully adult voice" that was "tinged by sadness".

Jackson's albums hold all 10 top positions on Billboard's top pop catalog albums chart, according Nielsen SoundScan sales data released Wednesday. That feat broke a record Jackson set last week when he had eight albums on that chart.

Jackson's albums are not eligible for the Billboard 200 chart, which is for newer albums. Jackson's "Number Ones" sold a whooping 339,000 copies last week. Two other Jackson albums, "Thriller" and "The Essential Michael Jackson," sold more than 150,000 copies.

Physical albums constituted 82 percent of Jackson's sales last week -- 656,000 of those versus 144,000 download albums.

Downloads of Jackson's songs dropped last week compared with the week before. Fans downloaded 2.2 million Jackson songs last week compared with 2.6 million the previous week.

But the "King of Pop" still had five singles on the Top 10 list of digital downloads.

Jackson's 1988 hit "Man in the Mirror" was his most popular single, with 159,000 downloads.

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Insomnia drug cause Micheal Jackson Death?

Michael Jackson suffered from crippling bouts of insomnia and pleaded for the powerful sedative Diprivan, despite warnings that it could be harmful to his health, according to a nurse who was working with Jackson for his upcoming 50-date run at London's O2 Arena.
Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse and nutritional counselor, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Jackson repeatedly asked her for the drug — also known as Propofol — but she denied his

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According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in the year 2007, approximately 64 million Americans regularly suffer from insomnia each year.Insomnia is 1.4 times more common in women than in men.requests.
"He wasn't looking to get high or feel good and sedated from drugs," she told the AP. "This was a person who was not on drugs. This was a person who was seeking help, desperately, to get some sleep, to get some rest."
Lee said that though she refused to give Jackson the drug, which is given intravenously and is widely used in operating rooms to induce unconsciousness, she became worried that the singer had somehow obtained it from someone else, after receiving a "frantic" phone call from a member of Jackson's staff, four days before the King of Pop's death.
"He called and was very frantic and said, 'Michael needs to see you right away,' " Lee told the AP. "I said, 'What's wrong?' And I could hear Michael in the background [saying], 'One side of my body is hot, it's hot, and one side of my body is cold, it's very cold.'
"At that point, I knew that somebody had given him something that hit the central nervous system," she continued. "He was in trouble Sunday and he was crying out."
Jackson died on Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest, his family said. Autopsies have been conducted, but an official cause of death is not expected for several weeks.
TMZ reported that Propofol was found at Jackson's house, along with the drug Lidocaine, which is used to reduce the pain associated with injecting Propofol. The Web site also quotes an unnamed source as saying that the drug is "so inappropriate and reckless for home use, if a doctor facilitated it for Jackson and it caused his death, he or she could be prosecuted for manslaughter."
A University of Chicago psychopharmacologist told the AP that Propofol has been implicated in drug abuse and even suicide. It has a "very narrow therapeutic window," meaning that it doesn't take doses much larger than the medically recommended amount to stop a person's breathing.