Original sentence: In fact, the recording sold over 800,000 copies in Japan by June of 1964 and held the record for best-selling album and single until it was finally dethroned by Michael Jackson's Thriller 19 years later
Edited sentence: In fact, the recording sold over 800,000 copies in Japan by June 1964 and held the record for best-selling album and single until it was finally dethroned by Michael Jackson's Thriller 19 years later