Radio airplay is up 1,735% from the previous week according to Nielsen and Heart Radio Network has reported that their stations within Heart are airing Billy Jean between 13-15 times each day across the network.

Music retailer HMV has reported a 500% rise in sales of Jackson’s classics such as Thriller and Bad and after Michael Jackson’s death was announced, all CDs by Michael Jackson 5 on Amazon.com had sold out within minutes.

The Essential Michael Jackson alone was downloaded roughly 70,000 times and there have been 27,776,356 viewings of the Jackson’s Thriller video on YouTube.

Google hits for Michael Jackson have soared to over one billion since his death last week and have been rising at 100,000 every 30 minutes.

Last week PRS for Music launched an online Condolence Book to pay tribute to Michael Jackson and celebrate his career and huge contribution to music. Hundreds of moving tributes continue to be uploaded including those from memorable a diversity of songwriters including jazz singer Carol Kidd MBE, Carol Decker from T’Pau and members from the Raggamuffin band.

Tributes can be sent via www.prsformusic.com/michaeljackson