World Music Awards

The World Music Awards, which honor artists by international record sales, repeatedly singled out Michael Jackson as a global best-seller. Held in Monaco, the show recognized both his individual albums and the scale of his worldwide catalog, and it presented him with special honors reflecting his standing across markets far beyond the United States. For an artist whose fame was truly planetary, this ceremony offered a fitting stage, measuring success not by one country's charts but by how many people around the world were buying the music.