{"id":2392005,"date":"2026-04-27T21:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2392005"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:38:26","slug":"michael-jackson-streams-skyrocket-after-michael-biopic-opening-weekend-up-95-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michael-jackson-streams-skyrocket-after-michael-biopic-opening-weekend-up-95-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson streams skyrocket after ‘Michael’ biopic opening weekend, up 95% in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2013 Michael Jackson<\/a> once sang \u201cDon’t Stop \u2018Til You Get Enough.\u201d For fans of the King of Pop\u2019s music, it’s words to live by: Streams of his catalog jumped 95% in the U.S. over the weekend when compared with the same dates the previous weekend.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to Luminate, an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership.<\/p>\n

A blockbuster was the cause: \u201cMichael,\u201d the big-budget Michael Jackson biopic released Friday, earned $97 million<\/a> in U.S. and Canada theaters its opening weekend, according to studio estimates. A few weeks prior, estimates for \u201cMichael\u201d were closer to $50 million. Last week, the studio estimated closer to $70 million.<\/p>\n

As a result of the movie’s incredible popularity, Jackson received 31.7 million streams on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25 in the U.S. and 16.3 million streams the previous weekend, Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18. That’s a 95% increase.<\/p>\n

But before Michael Jackson was Michael Jackson, he was the youngest member of The Jackson 5.<\/a> The classic boy group also received a huge jump in streams. The group earned 2.4 million streams on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25 compared to 1.3 million streams the previous weekend, Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18. That\u2019s an 85% increase.<\/p>\n

Jackson also saw a boost in plays on Apple Music. According to the streaming giant, on Monday, Jackson had eight songs on Apple Music\u2019s Daily Top 100 Global Chart. \u201cBillie Jean\u201d led the pack at number 11. <\/p>\n

And Shazam found that Jackson streams were 140% higher in volume last weekend, April 24 through April 26, than the previous weekend. As a result, there are currently seven Jackson songs on Shazam\u2019s global top 200.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael\u201d is a box office smash despite negative reviews from critics. In his review, The Associated Press’ Jake Coyle awarded the film one-and-a-half stars out of four, describing it as<\/a> \u201ca kind of fantasy film, one that relives the extraordinary highs of Michael Jackson while turning a blind eye to the lows.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NEW YORK \u2013 Michael Jackson once sang \u201cDon’t Stop \u2018Til You Get Enough.\u201d For fans of the King of Pop\u2019s music, it’s words to live by: Streams of his catalog jumped 95% in the U.S. over the weekend when compared with the same dates the previous weekend. That\u2019s according to Luminate, an industry data and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2392006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[444089,21796,21741,396393,304696],"class_list":["post-2392005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-billie-jean","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-jake-coyle","tag-michael-jackson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Michael-Jackson-streams-skyrocket-after-Michael-biopic-opening-weekend-up.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392007,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392005\/revisions\/2392007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}