Born in 1958, Michael Jackson began his career very young, at the age of 6. He performs with his brothers in the Jackson Five and despite the success of the family group, the artist embarked on a solo career in the 80s
After 4 discs with unequal success, Michael Jackson leaves Motown to record “Off The Wall” at Epic, the first album on which he collaborates with legendary producer Quincy Joness. The album is a critical and commercial success, but not enough for Michael who regrets winning only one Grammy award, what he wants is to become the biggest planetary star.
Pop music has found its king!
For “Thriller”, the singer finds Quincy Jones and only wants tubes… More than 300 songs will be proposed to the artist to end up with only 9 titles on the final tracklist. Seven of the nine songs on the album became singles that rose to the top of the charts, such as “The girl is mine”, “Beat it”, “Billie Jean”, “Human nature” and of course “Thriller”.
Michael Jackson, who aims for perfection, surrounds himself with a few renowned collaboratorsincluding Paul McCartney (who performed as a duo The Girl Is Mine), Eddie Van Halen (who signed the guitar solo of Beat It) and the actor Vincent Price who lent his voice to the narrative part of the title track of Thriller of which the groundbreaking music video captured the imagination of an entire generation!
November 30, 1982. A planetary tidal wave fell on the world of music, “Thriller” is the best-selling album in the history of music with more than 100 million copies sold worldwide. world ! Certified 34 times platinum in the United States, Thriller made history upon its release with 7 singles in the American Top 10 and 8 Grammy Awards with 12 nominations. He was the first to be certified triple diamond by the RIAA (equivalent to SNEP in France).
In a few weeks, “Thriller” climbed to the top of the American charts to stay there for 255 days number one, from February 26, 1983 to April 20, 1984. The same phenomenon in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Australia, Denmark, in Belgium, South Africa, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada…