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1. Michael Jackson’s
Farewell Trends
Research Report
By Trendsspotting.com

2. Akamai: 20% surge in traffic to leading
online news sites
Source : Akamai

3. Google search spiked for Michael Jackson
Source : Google Blog

4. And this is what Google thought..
Source : Google Blog

5. Twitter buzz peaked up to 5000
tweets per minute
Source : Twist

6. MJ dominates US TV news
Source : Snap Stream

7. Facebook’s fan page crossed over
6 Million new fans
Source : Inside Facebook

8. Last.fm: Tracks played per hour after
announcement of his death
Source : Last.fm

9. Bloggers join the mourn
Source : BlogPulse

10. The death of Jackson resulted in a global
media event of the first order
Mainstream Global Media Internet, Blogs & Social Media
Rank Story Year Rank Story Year
1 Obama 2008 1 Obama 2008
Hurricane
2 2005 2 Michael Jackson 2009
Katrina
Financial
3 2008 3 Iraq War 2003
Tsunami
4 Iraq War 2003 4 Beijing Olympics 2008
9/11 Terrorist
5 2001 5 Financial Tsunami 2008
Attacks
6 Beijing Olympics 2008 6 Hurricane Katrina 2005
7 Pope John Paul II 2005 7 Pope Joh Paul II 2005
8 S.Asian Tsunami 2005 8 9/11 Terrorist Attacks 2001
9 Michael Jackson 2009 9 S.Asian Tsunami 2005
Source : The Global Language Monitor

11. Out of stock
Around the time of Jackson’s death, only one of his albums
ranked in the top 100 on iTunes in the US.
By Friday morning, 8 of the top 10 albums were
Jackson’s.
5 of Jackson’s singles made it to iTunes’ list of most-
purchased tracks.
As Amazon sold out all Jackson CDs - customers were
buying Jackson’s music in digital formats!
Jackson related videos on Amazon (mostly DVDs) are
currently out of stock.

12. KING
of
POP
R.I.P.

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