With extensive media coverage of Michael Jackson's funeral and memorial service staged last Tuesday (July 7), he continues to dominate the charts. Although Florence & The Machine's Lungs album was able to sneak ahead in the first midweek sales flashes, it finished in second place, on sales of 63,020 copies, and is the only album in the top five NOT to feature Jackson

The Essential, which debuted and previously peaked at number two four years ago this week, ironically had ...