This Week in Music History: June 24 - 30 Michael Jackson Died, Pearl Jam Fans Killed, Beyonce Solo'd + Wham! Went-Went

Posted on Jun 27th 2012 1:00PM by Aaron Brophy
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The King of Pop Michael Jackson made over $1 billion dollars in 2009.

It was helped by the fact the "Beat It" and "Thriller" singer had an unprecedented year of sales success. That year Jackson sold 8.2 million albums throughout his catalog in the U.S. alone, which was more than any other artist. He also had four separate albums amongst the Top 20 in sales for the year, the first time anyone had ever done that.

Unfortunately, Jackson wasn't around to enjoy this success.

To find out why -- and to also learn about Beyoncé, Chris Isaak and KISS -- just click to launch the gallery below and see what they did to make history this week.

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