Michael Jackson's Thriller Reaches 33x Plat

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

"Thriller" had 9 songs and released 7 singles. All singles charted inside the Top 10 including 2 #1's. It spent 37 Weeks at #1. It's the first album to sell over a million copies in one week. It won a record 8 Grammy Awards in 1984. He's probably the most marketable artist in the history of music. Sing, Dance, Been in the spotlight before he was ten. He transition to adult star from child star flawless. He's the GOAT.

MJ got 8 Grammys in 84, but I do believe 1 was for the E.T. Soundtrack

This was back when artists put their all into albums. You could only fit like 40 minutes of music into a record, so their wasn't any room for filler. 9 songs were all that could fit, but if there was room for like 14 it would have been even more fire
The book Making Michael takes you inside the recording process for all his solo albums...dope read. Talks about how the original master of Thriller was too long and and had too much for what could fit on an LP, so when they first played it for the company the sound quality was so bad it was looked at as a disaster and MJ cried. They went back and cut stuff out and remastered it

 

[Rapmastermind]

In One Night. That album cover is Classic too it was like he had the glow, energy was all around him. I always remember seeing the Vinyl my Dad had growing up.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Greatest Billboard 200 Albums & Artists of All Time: Adele's '21' & The Beatles Are Tops

Greatest of All Time Billboard 200 Albums : Page 1

#1. 21
#2. Sound of Music Soundtrack
#3. Thriller


"21" had a great run, "Thriller" had a revolutionary, game changing, never see it again in history run.

 

[brick james]

Pedo excellence

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

"21" had nowhere near the impact that Thriller had. Neither did the Sound of Music Soundtrack

this iw what's pissing me off. thirller touched everyone, across generations, in some way. i can ask a shyt ton of black folks or folks outside of white western countries about sound of music and get :swaggywhat: faces back. gtfoh with sound of music being bigger

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

 

[blizzard man]

if he gets a few more plat, he will finally be caught up to big souljah

 

[L@CaT]

there'll never be another MJ...lost him too soon.

fukking definition of timeless music

We didn't lose him too soon imo. By the time he died he went bat shyt crazy. Arguable child molester. Musically not the same. The whiter he became the worse the music got.

He would have just died the same way eventually. Mike was so lost in his identity. I don't think Michael ever found his true self. Which is the real tragedy here.

 

[NigerianDonDada]

 

[NYtymes]

The goat

 

[MufasaChoppa]

him and quincy made thriller and the e.t album in just 3 months

 

[MufasaChoppa]

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

To put things into perspective, that's in the US alone. By 1995 or so (whenever HIStory came out) it was publically noted that Thriller had become well over 100 million sold worldwide.

 

[ILLMMORTAL]

TO THE GREATEST ENTERTAINER OF ALL TIME!