'Jacko mania' rocks the world
Updated on 28 June 2009
Across the world there is no let up in 'Jacko mania' as fans and fellow celebrities continue to pay tribute to the King of Pop. Keme Nzerem reports.
Six years after Michael Jackson's last number one hit, he topped the album chart with his greatest hits album, Number Ones.
The Number Ones album raced up the charts from 121 to reach number one. The same album earned Jackson his last number one hit when it was released in 2003.
Four of his other hit albums also made a reappearance in the top 20 today.
A total of 11 Michael Jackson or Jackson Five albums are in this week's Top 200 and 43 out of the Top 200 singles feature the singer, the Official Charts Company said.
The tributes to Michael Jackson continued to flow and there's now talk of a tribute concert by fellow stars. At the world's biggest music festival, Glastonbury, came the tributes both subtle and personal.
Lily Allen wore a simple sequinned glove, while Spinal Tap members said their band would not have existed without Michael Jackson and R&B producer Pharrell Williams spoke of how songs he'd written for Michael Jackson helped make Justin Timberlake.
While in the Philippines, more than 1500 prisoners reprised their prison dance based on Michael Jackson's Thriller which was made famous through YouTube.
Thriller, the biggest selling album of all time and released in 1982, is set to return to number one tonight.
