Thriller (album)
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| Thriller | ||
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| Missing image Thriller_album_cover.jpg Album cover (Regular) Original release | ||
| Missing image Music_album_record_thriller.jpg Album cover (Special Edition) Special Edition release | ||
| Album by Michael Jackson | ||
| Released | December 1, 1982 | |
| Recorded | April - November 1982 | |
| Genre | R&B /Pop | |
| Length | 42 mins 19 s | |
| Label | Epic | |
| Producer | Quincy Jones | |
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| Michael Jackson Chronology | ||
| Off The Wall (1979) | Thriller (1982) | Bad (1987) |
Thriller (1982) is an album by pop star Michael Jackson, and produced by Quincy Jones. The title track, "Thriller", track 4 on the album, features a spoken interlude by Vincent Price and was also made into a very popular music video directed by John Landis. Track 5, "Beat It", features a guitar solo by Eddie van Halen.
Thriller is currently the best selling album of all-original material of all time in the United States. The Eagles' Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) is currently the best-selling album overall in the United States, with Thriller in second place, although the albums have traded position a number of times over the past few years. In 2003, the TV network VH1 named it the 23rd greatest album of all time, and in 2005 a poll on British TV station Channel 4 found Thriller to be the 4th greatest album of all time.
Track listing
- "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" (Jackson)
- "Baby Be Mine" (Temperton)
- "The Girl is Mine" (with Paul McCartney) (Jackson)
- "Thriller" (Temperton)
- "Beat It" (Jackson)
- "Billie Jean" (Jackson)
- "Human Nature" (Porcaro/Bettis)
- "P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)" (Ingram/Jones)
- "The Lady In My Life" (Temperton)
Singles
- "The Girl Is Mine" #2 Pop
- "Billie Jean" #1 Pop
- "Beat It" #1 Pop
- "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" #5 Pop
- "Human Nature" #7 Pop
- "P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)" #10 Pop
- "Thriller" #4 Pop
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