12:18am Friday 26th June 2009
Here is a guide to Jackson's life and career in numbers: :: 37 - The number of weeks Jackson's album Thriller spent at number one in the US Billboard chart.
:: 7 - The number of chart-topping singles he has had in the UK.
:: 8 - The number of Grammys he won in 1984 - the highest amount ever won by one person in a single year.
:: 5 - The age at which Michael gave his first public performance singing Climb Every Mountain.
:: 8 - The number of brothers and sisters Michael has.
:: 19 - The number of months his marriage to Lisa-Marie Presley lasted.
:: 1978 - The year he appeared as The Scarecrow in The Wiz - a film based on The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz featuring an all African-American cast.
:: 47 million - the amount Jackson paid in US dollars for the publishing rights to the Beatles back catalogue in 1985.
:: 95 million - the amount he was paid in US dollars when he sold a share of the rights to Sony in 1995.
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