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| Discussion: 30th anniversary of Best Selling album ever-"Thriller" Nov 30th 2012, 10:59   Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' at 30: How One Album Changed the World On November 30, 1982 Michael Jackson's" Thriller "Album was released to the public and 30 years later to date, still remains to be "The Greatest Selling Album of All Time" "Thriller" conquered racial divides and evolving platforms at MTV, radio Quote:
"Thriller" was released on November 30th, 1982. Since then, it has sold over estimated 100 million copies worldwide and it sparked Michael Jackson's rise from superstar to legend.
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Thriller, his second album since Off the Wall, Jackson became bigger than Elvis, bigger than The Beatles, bigger than any recording artist. His success redefined the very meaning of "success".
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Thriller enabled Jackson to break down racial barriers via his appearances on MTV and meeting with President of the United States Ronald Reagan at the White House. The album was one of the first to use music videos as successful promotional tools—the videos for "Thriller", "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" all received regular rotation on MTV.
His position persuaded MTV to begin airing "Billie Jean" and later "Beat It", which led to a long partnership and later helped other black music artists to gain mainstream recognition.
The popularity of his videos, such as "Beat It" and "Billie Jean", helped to place the young channel "on the map".Jackson transformed the medium of music video into an art form and promotional tool through the use of complex story lines, dance routines, special effects and cameo appearances by well known personalities .
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Originally posted by [B Thriller's" legacy goes far beyond its own sales and awards accomplishments. Once MTV found success with Michael Jackson, videos by other black performers quickly appeared on the playlist. This development single-handedly forced pop radio to reintroduce black music into its mix: After all, pop fans, now accustomed to seeing black artists and white artists on the same video channel, came to expect the same mix of music on pop radio. It was impossible to keep the various fragments of the audience isolated from one another any longer. Mass-appeal Top 40 radio itself made a big comeback due to this seismic shift.In the age of "Thriller," black music made a resounding comeback on the pop charts. If 1982 was the genre's low point in terms of pop success.in a way few historians appreciate, the Michael Jackson/MTV team proved itself a remarkably progressive force, helping to reintegrate a fragmented popular culture at the dawn of the Reagan era. Black music was back at the center at the mainstream, and to this day it has never again been pushed from the spotlight.Time magazine reported that the music industry, at the time, was floundering among the "ruins of punk and the chic regions of synthesiser pop". It needed a messiah.
And Thriller it was.
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The album's choice of sonic imagination raised the bar in a way not done since. Thriller banked on Jackson's capacity for rhythm and melody, and boldly blended the synthetic elasticity of pop, heavy rock and syncopated thrust of rhythm and blues.
Thriller boasted grassy orchestrations, chorals, world music beats and harmonised structures of jazz that made the album the "last blast of the smiley face of pop music". Throw in the then novel entry of music video, and you understand why the album was unstoppable.
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Jackson wrote four of the album's nine songs himself : "Wanna be starting something","Billie Jean","Beat it",and The Girl is mine
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Tied with Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) by the Eagles as the best-selling album in the United States
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The album won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammys.
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In the world of pop music, there is Michael Jackson and there is everybody else". Jackson changed the way the industry functioned: both as an artistic persona, and as a financial, profitable entity.
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The album spawned "Billie Jean",for many the greatest recorded pop song of all time,the song is considered to be one of the most revolutionary songs in history.Originally disliked by Quincy Jones, the track was almost removed from the album after he and Jackson had disagreements regarding it.The song was mixed 91 times by audio engineer Bruce Swedien before it was finalized.It was written and composed by Michael Jackson and produced by him and Quincy Jones.
The song was promoted with a short film that broke down MTV's racial barrier as the first video by a black artist to be aired in heavy rotation. Jackson premiered his "moonwalk" for the first time with the legendary Motown 25 performance.It was watched by 50 million people.one of the most important pop culture moments in history.
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"Thriller",the video,is still to this date the most influential,most iconic,and most successful music video of all time
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The album was listed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers at number three in its Definitive 200 Albums of All Time. The Thriller album was included in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry of culturally significant recordings, and the Thriller video was included in the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films"
| and many more of this :deadbanana2: the album that ******* on everyone :worship2: |  |
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