The album chart that came out yesterday was
filled with Grammy-feted albums, but there was one notable omission from it: The new, Akon-studded version of Michael Jackson's
Thriller, which sold 166,000 copies but was relegated to
Billboard's catalog charts. According to the
New York Daily News, execs at Sony are calling
Billboard's decision "unfathomable... Michael expected it to be on the Top 200 chart." But the mag claims that other reissues with even
more deluxe material than
Thriller 25 have also been placed on the catalog chart, and that Wal-Mart and Best Buy concurred with its decision.
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