SPACEMAN: 2015

1. Michael Jackson (aged 11 years, 5 months, and 2 days) is the youngest vocalist ever to top the Hot 100. As part of the Jackson 5, he topped the charts with "I Want You Back" on the week of January 31, 1970.

2. Jackson's Thriller (1982) remained at the top on the Billboard 200 album chart for thirty-seven weeks, setting a record for the longest run at number one by a studio album 37 weeks.Thriller spent a record 80 consecutive weeks, more than a year and a half, in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200.

3. Jackson became the first artist in history to simultaneously debut an album at number one on USA and UK album charts, with album "Thriller".

4. In November 1999, Jackson were named "Top-selling Artist of the Century" and Thriller "Top-selling Solo Studio Album of the Century" by the RIAA.

5. The British Council of Cultural Relations recently named Michael Jackson’s LIFE as one of the 80 most important cultural moments of the 20th century.

6. Michael Jackson's biography on wikipedia is available in 162 languages. in comparison, the beatles biography is on 155 languages and elvis presley biography in 130 languages.

7. only took two months for Dangerous to sell 10 million records.

8. Michael Jackson is part of the 100 greatest singers of all time named by rolling stone.

9. The thriller album is included on the list 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone.

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11. Michael Jackson is one of the 21 artists included twice in the rock and roll hall of fame, to name a few: Ringo Starr, Neil Young, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton.

12. Michael co-wrote the song "do the bartman" for the simpsons.

13. before starring thriller short film, ola ray was named playmate in june of 1980.

14. Michael Jackson has been honored by two presidents of the United States. In 1984 was awarded with an honor from Ronald Reagan. In April 1990, Jackson returned to the White House to be recognized as "Artist of the Decade" by President George H. W. Bush. Two years later, on May 1, 1992 Bush presented Jackson with an award acknowledging him as "a point of light ambassador", Jackson was the only entertainer to receive this award.

1984 presidential humanitarian award by Ronald Reagan

artist of the decade 1990 by George H.W. Bush

15. Jackson was officially crowned king sani of africa in Ivory Coast (1992).

signing official documents formalizing his chieftaincy

16. Michael Jackson is the first and only Artist to get twice "Artist Millennium Award". The first was on World Music Awards [2000 Best Selling Male Artist of the Millennium] and last by Bambi Awards [2002 Pop Artist of the Millennium].

17. the International society of the moon has announced that a crater on Earth's Moon was renamed "Michael Joseph Jackson"; The decision to designate the crater in Jackson's honor came following a special session of the moon Society's governing board. The designation proposal had been widely suggested during the week by fans and fellow landowners.

Name: Crater Michael Joseph Jackson (IAU: Posidonius J)
Location: Lacus Somniorum (33.8 N 30.7 E)
Crater Diameter: 22.0 kilometers
Crater Depth: 650 métiers

18. Michael Jackson was among the largest private owner of Lunar property; In addition to his significant parcel (1200 acres), in the Lake Of Dreams, which he obtained in 2005, he also buy a property in the Sea Of Vapours (Mare Vaporum). Real estate in that area - which is zoned for proposed tourism (T-1), scientific industrial (S-1), operations base (O-1) and light industrial (L-1).

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19. Michael Jackson has a patented invention:
METHOD AND MEANS FOR CREATING ANTIGRAVITY ILLUSION [US5255452 A - 1993].

20. Invincible was voted best album of the decade Although "Invincible" was not be listed to vote -the electors had to write the album name aside- by billboard.

21. in the List of best-selling albums -include sales of +20 million copies- M. Jackson currently has the highest number of albums (5): Thriller, with 65 million, Bad 45 million, Dangerous 38 million, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I 20 million, Off the Wall 20 million. followed by The Beatles, Madonna and Whitney Houston each one have three.

22. Jackson is the Highest-Paid Commercial Spokesperson ever; Pepsi Co. paid Jackson $12 million for did 4 TV commercials in 1988.

23. the BAD World add two new entries in the Guinness Book of World Records for calculating largest travel history by spanned 16 months, visited 4 continents, included 123 concerts across 15 countries. and the tour with the biggest attendances with to 4.4 million fans.

24. Jackson's Thriller and Bad are the 8th- and 9th-highest-selling albums in UK history. Besides Jackson, only Queen, with the 1st- and 7th-best-selling albums, has multiple entries in the top twenty.

25. Jackson has the two best-selling VHS music videos ever released: "Moonwalker" (1988), and "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller (1984).

26. Michael was an honorary officer of peace in canada.

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27. 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.

28. Michael Jackson is the artist with the highest number of Guinness records worldwide (31).

29. the manuscript of we are the world was sold for $ 270.ooo.

30. the white suit of the cover of thriller was auctioned in 2001 for $ 25,000.

31. Hours before the press conference of this is it, promotional posters were displayed around London. The promotion occupy an entire commercial break on ITV London during Dancing on Ice, the first time that this has happened for a musical artist. The ad, which cost £ 1 million, was seen by 11 million people.

32. In July 11, 2009, three of Jackson's albums (Number Ones, The Essential Michael Jackson and Thriller) claimed positions, 1-3 respectively, on Top Pop Catalog Albums and Top Comprehensive Albums in the week following Jackson's death, marking the first time any catalog album outsold the number album on the Billboard 200. Additionally, eight of the top nine positions on Top Pop Catalog Albums were owned by Jackson, with a ninth held by a Jackson 5 hits collection.

33. Jackson had 29 top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, equalling The Beatles, and trailing Elvis Presley (36) and Madonna (37).

34. he's the only artist to grace the top 40 in 5 different decades: the '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s and '10s.

35. Michael Jackson and his attorneys, headed by John Branca, fought a long competition for ATV rights against large corporations: Virgin Records, CBS records, the Coca-Cola company , EMI music, real estate tycoon Samuel J. Lefrak, financier Charles Knapp and the Entertainment Co.

36. The King of Pop once occupied the stage alongside the King of Reggae: In 1975, Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 trip to Jamaica, Bob Marley and the wailers directly hires the Jackson Five for the inauguration of his new tour "Natty Dread".

The Jackson 5 and The Wailers hang out on a fallen mango tree at 56 Hope Road with promoter Chester McCullough and some close friends.

37. In 2015 Thriller became the first album in RIAA Gold & Platinum Program history to be certified 30X multi-Platinum for U.S. sales.

38. In 2016 Michael Jackson earn more than any musician in history ($ 800 millions) for sell his 50% stake in Sony/ATVmusic publishing.