With 32 million copies sold worldwide by the end of 1983, Thriller became the best-selling album of all time, and was ratified by Guinness World Records on February 7, 1984. The "Thriller" music video was premiered to great anticipation in December 1983 and played regularly on MTV, which also increased the sales. Following Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean" in the Motown 25 television special, where he debuted his signature moonwalk dance, the sales of the album significantly increased, selling one million copies worldwide per week. They all reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, setting a record for the most top 10 singles from an album, with "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" reaching number one. Seven singles were released: "The Girl Is Mine", " Billie Jean", " Beat It", " Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' ", " Human Nature", " P.Y.T. Thriller became Jackson's first number-one album on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart, where it spent a record 37 non-consecutive weeks at number one, from February 26, 1983, to April 14, 1984. Recording took place from April to November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, with a budget of $750,000. Paul McCartney appears on " The Girl Is Mine", the first credited appearance of a featured artist on a Michael Jackson album. Thriller foreshadows the contradictory themes of Jackson's personal life, as he began using a motif of paranoia and darker themes. With the ongoing backlash against disco music at the time, he moved in a new musical direction, resulting in a mix of pop, post-disco, rock, funk, and R&B sounds. Jackson wanted to create an album where "every song was a killer". It was produced by Quincy Jones, who had previously worked with Jackson on his 1979 album Off the Wall. All Rights Reserved.Thriller is the sixth studio album by the American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released on November 29, 1982, by Epic Records. Copyright© 2023 The Canadian Real Estate Association. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. The prohibited uses include commercial use, “screen scraping”, “database scraping”, and any other activity intended to collect, store, reorganize or manipulate data on the pages produced by or displayed on this website. Any other reproduction, distribution or use of the content, in whole or in part, is specifically forbidden. The listing content on this website is protected by copyright and other laws, and is intended solely for the private, non-commercial use by individuals. CREA reproduces and distributes this information as a service for its members and assumes no responsibility for its accuracy. The information contained on this site is based in whole or in part on information that is provided by members of The Canadian Real Estate Association, who are responsible for its accuracy. The MLS® trademark and the MLS® logo are owned by CREA and identify the quality of services provided by real estate professionals who are members of CREA. These certification marks identify real estate professionals who are members of CREA and who must abide by CREA’s By-Laws, Rules, and the REALTOR® Code. and licensed exclusively to The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). REALTOR®, REALTORS®, and the REALTOR® logo are certification marks that are owned by REALTOR® Canada Inc. This listing content provided by remax.ca has been licensed by REALTOR® members of Canadian Real Estate Association. Any consumers interested in out of province listings must contact a person who is licensed to trade in real estate in that province. The out of province listing content on this website is not intended to solicit a trade in real estate. I am a broker licensed to trade in residential and commercial real estate in NB.
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