In Memory: 15 Most Important Facts About Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson passed away, the music and entertainment industry lost a heavy-weight super star. He left so much for us to memorize. Wish him rest in piece. There must be millions of loyal fans accompanying him in the heaven.
No one could question Michael Jackson’s enormous success in his rather short life. Indeed, he is a rare legendary figure of the world, full of mysterious power. When the music starts, his rhythm can shake the earth. He earned with his talents the unreserved love from hundreds of millions of fans worldwide.
1. Michael Jackson is a genius of stage. Michael started his music career at age 5, with a song of “Climb Every Mountain”. He accumulated unmatchable performing experiences and skills in his 45-year long artist life.
2. Extraordinary strength and unbeatable charm are Michael Jackson’s most glorious achievements. His owns the world’s best selling album, “Thriller”. Thevolume of 104 million copies created the Guinness’s record in 2006.
3. Michael Jackson was the first singer from America and Europe to perform in Asia. His world tours had the largest scale and attracted the most number of audience in the history.
4. Michael Jackson’s successful music journey had lots to do with his parents. When he was five, his parents setup the famous band, Jackson 5. Michael and his four brothers were members of the band. The Jackson 5 played an important role in Michael Jackson’s early developments.
5. Michael Jackson’s two wives were also helped his career. Michael’s first wife, Lisa Marie Presley is Elvis Presley’s only daughter. His second wife, Debbie Rowe, was a nurse born in Germany.
6. Michael Jackson’s 10 most monumental musics: “You are Not Alone”, “Beat it”, “The Way You Love Me”, “Lost Children”, “Speechless”, “Remember the time”, “We are the World”, “Bad” and “Heal the World”.
7. Michael Jackson’s Guinness fate. Michael was awarded total 8 certificates of the world record by Guinness, including the best seller “Thriller”, the first artist who sold over 100 million albums outside the United States, the first artist who had an annual income over 100 million dollars and many others. All these achievements prompted the Guinness to award Michael Jackson a special certificate - world’s most successful artist.
8. Michael Jackson’s unique dance, Moon Walk, became a classic model. A huge number of artists have been trying to imitate the dance in their performance.
9. Michael Jackson had glorious Grammys records. “Thriller” was Album of the Year in the 26th annual awards. “We are the World” won “Song of the Year” in 1986. “Leave Me Alone” won “Best Music Video – Short Form”. Most importantly, Michael Jackson received Grammy’s “Living Legend Award” in the 35th Annual Awards.
10. Michael Jackson’s music spread to the largest territories in the world. By the end of 2006, total albums sold reached 750 millions.
11. Michael Jackson published only 9 albums in the entire life, started with “Off The Wall” and ended with “The Ultimate Collection”. This number is not that big, but each album had extremely impressive sales.
12. Michael Jackson has gone beyond a Superstar. Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Beatles are regarded as the greatest singers in the modern history of the Pop Music, Michael Jackson has shown greater achievements than other two. He successfully broke all the records maintained by Presley and Beatles, becoming an indisputable super giant.
13. Michael Jackson had been the center of scandals for a number of times. In addition to the widespread rumors about his skin colors and plastic surgeries, Michael Jackson was also involved in a child molestation case. The scandle had negatively affected his personal image for quite some time, but eventually he cam out clean in the case. His skin color once was a mystery. He was a black singer but had ultra white skins for many years. The media once suggested he had gone through skin whitening procedures. But the fact is, that was the symptom of a disease he had suffered for many years.
14. Michael Jackson maintained a Guinness record of charity. He supported 39 different charity organizations and foundations. He is the person who made the most donations in the world.
15. Michael Jackson had great influences even in the world class celebrity circle. Many celerities around the world are his die-hard fans.

June 27th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I will be back when I have more time
June 27th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
June 27th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
RIP? Michael Jackson (aka) King of Pop. We will never forget you!
June 28th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Good reading,thanks
June 28th, 2009 at 8:40 am
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June 30th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
amazing stuff thanx
June 30th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
The world was recently saddened by the sudden loss of pop icon Michael Jackson. In memoriam of this legendary and one-of-a-kind performer, Ztarlet Star Registry has dedicated an actual star in his memory – as a symbol of the bright light that Jackson brought to the music industry and his millions of loyal fans across the globe.
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July 6th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it..
August 4th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Thanks for putting this together.
I will always love you, The King of Pop, The King of Giving!
RIP, Michael!
August 7th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Little known fact Michael Jackson was also know as TJ to some of his closest friends which is short for ThrillieJean or ThrillyJean…… a reference to the Thriller/ Billie Jean era of his career.