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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).
In 1982, Temperton wrote three songs, including the title track, [1] [2] for Jackson's next LP, Thriller, which became the biggest-selling album of all time in the United States, selling 32 million copies. [2] Temperton also wrote the spoken word section of the song for the actor Vincent Price. [13]
The album Thriller was released in November 1982 on Epic Records and spent months at the top of the Billboard 200. [15] "Thriller" was not initially planned for release as a single, as Epic saw it as a novelty song. [16] The Epic executive Walter Yetnikoff asked: "Who wants a single about monsters?" [15] By mid-1983, sales of the album had ...
Thriller spent 37 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, and set the record for most top 10 singles from an album, with seven. It has since sold over 60 million copies around the world.
Thriller. Jones recalled that working on the 1982 album as a whole was tiring, even though the album-titled track became a phenomenon. "When we were finishing 'Beat It,' we had three studios going ...
"Billie Jean" is a song by the American singer Michael Jackson, released by Epic Records on January 3, 1983, as the second single from his sixth studio album, Thriller (1982). It was written and composed by Jackson, produced by Quincy Jones, and co-produced by Jackson.
The album earned Jackson seven Grammys [10] and eight American Music Awards. [11] Thriller was the first album to have seven Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles, including "Billie Jean", "Beat It", and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'". [12] Jackson's seventh album Bad (1987) produced nine
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” is the best-selling album of all time, having sold a reported 70 million copies. Sarasota mystery writer Don Bruns would be happy with a fraction of that success ...