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Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on August 10, 1979, by Epic Records. It was Jackson's first album released through Epic Records, and the first produced by Quincy Jones , whom he met while working on the 1978 film The Wiz .
Off The Wall made Jackson the first solo artist to have four singles from the same album peak in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. [14] The album was certified 9× Platinum by the RIAA and has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.
Many officially unreleased songs had been scheduled, at one point, for release, through ways such as his six solo studio albums with music label Epic Records: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory (1995) and Invincible (2001) and the remix album Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997). For ...
"Off the Wall" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson, from his fifth album of the same name (1979). It was written by English songwriter Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones , and released by Epic Records as the album's second single in the UK on November 16, 1979 [ 1 ] and as the third single in the US on January 31, 1980.
“Off the Wall” is an extremely cohesive album. All of the songs come from the genre of disco. This album is perhaps the greatest distillation of what disco is.
It was, perhaps, an accident of birth: Ben is named after "Ben," Jackson's Golden Globe-winning 1972 title track for the movie of the same name. By the time Ben started listening to music, in the early 1990s, the King of Pop reigned supreme, and Ben acquired quite the collection of Jackson albums: "Off the Wall," "Bad" and of course, "Thriller."
Thriller is the sixth studio album by the American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released on November 29, 1982, by Epic Records. [4] [5] It was produced by Quincy Jones, who previously worked with Jackson on his album Off the Wall (1979).
HIStory was Jackson's first studio album since his 1991 album Dangerous and his first new material after being accused of child sexual abuse. [16] The album comprises two discs. The first, HIStory Begins, is a compilation of songs from Jackson's albums Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987) and Dangerous (1991).