4. La Toya Jackson, March 1989 – 8,000,000 copies sold
The March 1989 issues’ sales figures were nothing short of a phenomenon. Here’s why. The cover model was La Toya Jackson, one of the survivors of the Jackson family. Remember, the Jacksons were the Kardashians before there were Kardashians. Just look at the similarities. The entire family is in the public eye, their parents are crazy people, and there’s innocent children in the mix who will pay their future therapists a fortune to undo this mess. Putting one of them in a magazine like Playboy can be risky because controversy constantly surrounds them.
Also, she looks just like Michael Jackson. It may be hard for Playboy’s target audience (heterosexual men over 35) to fantasize about La Toya without seeing Michael’s face. The fact the magazine sold 8,000,000 copies either says that people ignored this… or they liked it (shudder). No matter what, March of ‘89 was a good month.
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