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"Michael Jackson's online popularity continues to soar: we reported previously that 2.6 million Michael Jackson songs were downloaded this week;  Nielsen SoundScan says that no artist has ever sold more than 1 million downloads in a single week.\nBut Jackson is dominating in online video, too.  Visible Measures, which goes beyond YouTube views and instead aggregates views from 150+ video sites, reports today that videos of Thriller have been viewed almost 28 million times since Thursday.  The count includes tributes to the original, like the prison inmates' performance below.\nWhat's more, the viewership has been accelerating, with 8.5 million total views this weekend and more than 19 million additional views on Monday and Tuesday.  Jackson, it seems, is getting more popular by the day.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbove: Prison inmates in the Philippines perform Thriller\nRelated: Michael Jackson: A Video Tribute"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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