Well, despite the fact that it shot into the charts over here, it's not doing too well in America. Michael Jackson's recently released new greatest hits compilation, 'The Essential Michael Jackson', sold only 8000 copies in the US in its first week on release. Perhaps the majority of the American public already own one of those other greatest hits compilations, 'HIStory', 'Number Ones' or 'The Ultimate Collection'.
Or, of course, they may just not like him any more after those recent allegations and revelations and that's what PR-to-the-tabloid-stars Max Clifford thinks. He apparently said: "He came to me a month ago and I turned him down. It would be the hardest job in PR after Saddam Hussein and I would be astounded if he could turn things around. People were extremely offended by even some of the things he admitted in court. The final judgement is with the record buying public and they have made their verdict clear."