{"id":2086689,"date":"2025-10-13T00:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2086689"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:39:17","slug":"michael-jackson-climbs-the-charts-yet-again-as-fans-celebrate-the-spooky-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michael-jackson-climbs-the-charts-yet-again-as-fans-celebrate-the-spooky-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Climbs the Charts Yet Again as Fans Celebrate the Spooky Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>&#8220;Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As expected, a certain spooky track by <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> is making its annual climb on the music charts as Halloween fast approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The King of Pop, who died in 2009 at age 50, released &#8220;Thriller&#8221; way back in 1982, and fans have cherished the chart-topping song ever since \u2014 especially during the month of October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In fact, Jackson&#8217;s relentlessly addictive track has already reappeared on two <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Billboard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Billboard<\/a> charts in the U.S. this week, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hughmcintyre\/2025\/10\/12\/michael-jacksons-annual-chart-comeback-has-already-begun\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Forbes reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>Forbes<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Thriller&#8221; has returned highest \u2014 and inside the top 10 \u2014 on the R&amp;B Digital Song Sales ranking, where it lands at No. 6, Forbes noted, while also soaring back onto the R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales ranking, where it has nearly become a top-10 success again, starting off this year at No. 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, the iconic album of the same name currently lives on five Billboard charts in the U.S. <em>Thriller<\/em> is nearing the top 10 on the Top R&amp;B Albums chart, <em>Forbes<\/em> noted, and also lives inside the top 40 on both the Top R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Album Sales rosters, improving to Nos. 27 and 38, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jackson released <em>Thriller<\/em> in November 1982, and it went right to No. 1, with many in the music biz regarding it as one of the greatest albums of all time. It has gone platinum a whopping 34 times, and that&#8217;s just in the U.S. Other songs from the LP that were promoted as singles were:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cP.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Late last month, <strong>Lionel Richie<\/strong> released a memoir that detailed his longtime friendship with Jackson. <em>Truly<\/em>, which hit the shelves on Sept. 30, even <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/lionel-richie-spills-quincy-jones-233255140.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:included a funny anecdote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">included a funny anecdote<\/a> about a unique nickname the late <strong>Quincy Jones<\/strong> once gave Jackson, according to Richie, 76. Since Jackson was always on the road and had limited access to fresh clothes, Jones started calling him &#8220;Smelly.&#8221; Oof!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>This story was originally reported by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\/michael-jackson-thriller-climbing-music-charts-halloween-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Parade;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Parade<\/a> on Oct 12, 2025, where it first appeared in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=parade.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart&#8230;&#8221; As expected, a certain spooky track by Michael Jackson is making its annual climb on the music charts as Halloween fast approaches. The King of Pop, who died in 2009 at age 50, released &#8220;Thriller&#8221; way back in 1982, and fans have cherished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2086690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[345275,304696,350760,393037],"class_list":["post-2086689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-billboard-charts","tag-michael-jackson","tag-music-charts","tag-thriller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Michael-Jackson-Climbs-the-Charts-Yet-Again-as-Fans-Celebrate.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086691,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086689\/revisions\/2086691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}