Michael Joseph Jackson
Born August 29, 1958
Died June 25, 2009


Much will be said about MJJ in the coming months, and years. A lot will be extremely negative, some will be true. I don't want the haters, and revisionist to control the dialogue. I don't know the truth, but neither will 99% of the people writing books, and blogs, doing interviews, and SELLING information.

In the 40 plus years that Mr. Jackson was entertaining the world, he has sold AT Least 750,000,000 albums. This is the number generally accepted, but given the way his accomplishments have been understated, it would not surprise me if the number is closer to a BILLION albums.

Contrary to what we are told by the press, MJ was a business genius. In the mid 80s Michael paid $48 million for the ATV music catalog. Did you know that the Beatles music was just a fraction of the entire catalog? Michael actually had acquired the publishing rights to some of the most popular music of the 60s. But he didn't stop there, over the years; his company acquired other publishing companies amassing copyrights to tens of thousands of song. Hopefully you're starting to get the ideal, and with do your own research.

For those of you that believe Michael was going broke follow the link.

http://www.actressarchives.com/news.php?id=5939

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sony/ATV_Music_Publishing_artists


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