THE GRAMMYS,WHAT TO WATCH FOR: MICHAEL JACKSON THRILLER

All you haters out there need not read this post because I want to talk about what was. I want to talk about what used to be. I want to talk about who was "the man" 25 years ago... Michael Jackson. This year celebrates 25 years since the release of the album THRILLER and it's string of number one hits including the song and landmark video by the same name. The big question, and I mean big as in huge, as in large, question is will the "gloved one" be performing at tomorrow nights Grammy Awards. Solid rumors abound as ...

it only makes since to have him there. Forget the plastic surgery and rare skin disease that all of you don't want to cut him some slack on. Forget the court cases and rumors of Michaels advances towards young boys, if you can. And I see no problem with him marrying Elvis's daughter or escorting Brooke Shields. Because I for one can't claim such conquest, can you? No let's go back 25 years when the record industry was in the doldrums. No one was buying music. Artists were loosing their contracts and if someone even approaching a million records sales was a big deal. Wait a minute, that sounds like the Dead On Arrival music industry we have been living through right now and for the last 5 years. Strange as it sounds we could use a dose of Michael Jackson right now.

You can go YOUTUBE and get all the retro Michael Jackson you want. For now let's have a smile with this Thrillicious Super Bowl Commercial staring hot super model Naomi Campbell.


Now check out these statistics on the album that single handedly rescued the music industry, catapulted MTV and video making, and got the people all over the world buying music once again:

The original Thriller spent an astounding 80 consecutive weeks in the American Top 10, 37 of those at #1. Seven of the album's original nine tracks became Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 while Individual singles from Thriller reached #1 chart positions in the US, the UK, France, Italy, Australia, Denmark, Belgium, South Africa, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand and Canada.

Thriller made history as the first and only record to be America's top-selling album two years running (1983 and 1984).

Thriller has been certified 27x platinum by the RIAA, giving it Double Diamond Award status in the US. In addition, the album has achieved Diamond or Multi-Platinum status in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. In 1985, the Guinness Book of
Records named Thriller the Best Selling Album of All Time, an achievement which remains unsurpassed to this day.

In February 1984, Michael Jackson held a record-breaking 12 Grammy nominations, going on to win eight, which stands as the record for most Grammy Awards to be won by anyone in a single year.

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