| Michael Jackson stormed the world of music and | | | | Universally, it is the third best selling music album |
| tasted international worldwide fame with the | | | | of Michael Jackson behind Thriller and Dangerous. |
| album-Off The Wall. On July 28, 1979, the first | | | | It was the only album with five songs of the |
| single 'Don't stop till you get enough" was released. | | | | album attaining number one status. The songs |
| It peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 and achieved | | | | that achieved cult status included -The Way You |
| number 3 status in the UK. The other three | | | | Make Me Feel, Liberian Girl, Dirty Diana, Smooth |
| numbers "She's out of My Life", "Rock with You" | | | | Criminal, I just Can't Stop Loving You and of |
| and "Off the Wall" also reached Billboard Hot 100 | | | | course, Bad. |
| charts, and Off the Album was the first album by | | | | Dangerous: Dangerous (November 26, 1991) was |
| a solo artist to attain 4 US top 10 hits. | | | | the second most successful album of Michael |
| In 1980, Jackson won three awards at the | | | | Jackson's career. Dangerous debuted at number 1 |
| American Music Awards for his solo efforts: | | | | on the Billboard 200 Album Charts with 326,500 |
| Favorite Soul/R&B Album, Favorite Male Soul | | | | copies sold in one week of release. In the year |
| R&B Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B | | | | 1993, Michael Jackson won the Grammy Legend |
| Single for "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough". In the | | | | Award for his outstanding contribution to music |
| same year, he also won Billboard Music Awards | | | | and the album sales skyrocketed. Dangerous |
| for Top Black Artist and Top Black Album and a | | | | stayed in the Billboard countdown for 117 weeks, |
| Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal | | | | a good thirty weeks over Bad. |
| Performance (for his hit single 'Don't Stop Till You | | | | The US and UK gave a terrific reception to |
| Get Enough") | | | | Dangerous with more than 48 percent sales |
| Thriller: Michael Jackson became household name | | | | coming from these two places. Asia and Australia |
| after the release of Thriller (November 30,1982). | | | | were sold to Dangerous and its videos like Black |
| Thriller exceeded the expectations set by Off | | | | or White, Remember the Time, In the Closet, |
| The Wall. The first single "The Girl is Mine" made | | | | Heal the World, Who is it and Will You Be There |
| people think that Thriller was not going to really | | | | became cult successes. Black or White also won a |
| rule the roost, but "Billie Jean" had the worst of | | | | Grammy for Outstanding Music Video. |
| critics eating a humble pie. The video had Michael | | | | History: History Past, Present and Future (1995) |
| Jackson 'moonwalking' to fame. Thriller was one | | | | was Michael Jackson's ninth album, released in the |
| of the first music albums to incorporate videos as | | | | form of a double disc. It is the best-selling multiple |
| promotional material. Thriller, Billie Jean and Beat It | | | | disc album ever released, with worldwide sales of |
| are to date, the most watched videos in the | | | | 20 million..The album received five Grammy |
| world. In the span of a year, Thriller won eight | | | | nominations and won one for for the Best Music |
| Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammys, including | | | | Video, Short Form-Scream. Scream is featured in |
| awards in three different genres-pop, R&B | | | | the Guinness Book of Records as the "Most |
| and rock. It currently remains the best selling | | | | Expensive Music Video Ever Made" at a cost of |
| album of all time. Not many people know that the | | | | $7 million. |
| album 'Thriller' was first called 'Midnight Man' but | | | | Invincible: The last album of Michael |
| they finally decided to keep the album name | | | | Jackson-Invincible (2001 didn't get the sort of |
| 'Thriller' for marketing reasons. Thriller went on to | | | | reception and it was declared as the least |
| win Michael Jackson, seven Grammy awards in | | | | impressive of all his albums because of the length |
| 1984, including Album of the Year. He also won 8 | | | | of the album and ballads. Rolling Stone believed |
| American Music Awards, Three MTV video music | | | | that "every song is full of grandiose desperation. |
| award and the Special Award of Merit. | | | | It's an excruciatingly self-referential place, |
| Bad: Bad released on August 31, 1987 was the | | | | worsened further by its namesake's unmatched |
| biggest selling album of Michael Jackson in the UK. | | | | controversies and weirdnesses. |