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- <title>
- Dec. 09, 1991: Business Notes:Entertainment
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 09, 1991 One Nation, Under God
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- ENTERTAINMENT
- Will Michael Call the Tune?
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- <p> He was Bad. Now he's Dangerous. But what the recession-racked
- record industry most hopes Michael Jackson will be is popular--and wildly so. The singer's new album, his first in four years,
- went on sale last week in the midst of the industry's worst
- slump in a decade.
- </p>
- <p> Dangerous is an instant multiplatinum hit, with an initial
- pressing of 8 million copies. What remains to be seen is whether
- it can come even close to Jackson's 1982 Thriller, which sold
- 48 million copies worldwide. His label, Sony's Epic division,
- is coaxing customers with a huge promotional effort. Twin Peaks
- director David Lynch filmed a trailer playing in movie theaters
- and on TV. K Mart outlets are pushing the album in half a dozen
- locations in each store. Working against the hoopla: mixed
- reviews like Daily Variety's downbeat verdict that "this album
- won't be the economic miracle the industry is waiting for."
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- </body></article>
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