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+ "page_snippet": "Jackson's first solo entry on the US Billboard Hot 100 songs chart was "Got to Be There", which peaked at number four in 1971. Jackson's first number-one hit on the chart was "Ben", in 1972. Jackson continued to release singles throughout the 1970s. The album Off the Wall (1979) contained five ...Jackson's first solo entry on the US Billboard Hot 100 songs chart was \"Got to Be There\", which peaked at number four in 1971. Jackson's first number-one hit on the chart was \"Ben\", in 1972. Jackson continued to release singles throughout the 1970s. The album Off the Wall (1979) contained five singles, including the chart-topping \"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough\" and \"Rock with You\". Jackson's first number-one hit on the chart was \"Ben\", in 1972. Jackson continued to release singles throughout the 1970s. The album Off the Wall (1979) contained five singles, including the chart-topping \"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough\" and \"Rock with You\". Both are certified multi-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States for sales in excess of 6 million copies. In 1983, Jackson again collaborated with McCartney and \"Say Say Say\" was released as the first single from McCartney's 1983 album Pipes of Peace. It was a number-one hit in the United States. Jackson's seventh studio album, Bad (1987), produced nine singles with seven charting in the United States. The album produced four top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100: \"Remember the Time\", \"In the Closet\", \"Will You Be There\" (produced and performed by Jackson as the theme for the film Free Willy) and the number-one hit \"Black or White\". In June 1995, Jackson released his ninth album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, a double album. In June 1995, Jackson released his ninth album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, a double album. The first disc, HIStory Begins, is a 15-track greatest hits album. The second disc, HIStory Continues, contains 13 original songs and two cover versions.",
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Jackson's first solo entry on the US Billboard Hot 100 songs chart was \"Got to Be There\", which peaked at number four in 1971.[4] Jackson's first number-one hit on the chart was \"Ben\", in 1972.[5] Jackson continued to release singles throughout the 1970s. The album Off the Wall (1979) contained five singles, including the chart-topping \"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough\" and \"Rock with You\".[5] Both are certified multi-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States for sales in excess of 6 million copies.[6] With the following singles \"Off the Wall\" and \"She's Out of My Life\" also reaching the US top 10, Jackson became the first solo artist to have four singles from the same album reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.[7]\n
In 1982, Jackson released his sixth studio album, Thriller. \"The Girl Is Mine\", a collaboration with Paul McCartney, was released as the first single from the album. The single peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.[8] \"Billie Jean\" was the album's second single. The single topped the charts in 13 countries, including the United States.[9] The single sold more than 10 million copies in the United States[10] and over 1.4 million in the United Kingdom.[11] \"Beat It\", released a month later, peaked at number one in nine countries and sold more than eight million copies in the US.[6] \"Thriller\" was released in November 1983 and peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. The single sold 10 million copies in the US alone, making it Jackson's best-selling single.[6] In 1983, Jackson again collaborated with McCartney and \"Say Say Say\" was released as the first single from McCartney's 1983 album Pipes of Peace. It was a number-one hit in the United States.[12] Jackson's seventh studio album, Bad (1987), produced nine singles with seven charting in the United States. Five of these singles (\"I Just Can't Stop Loving You\", \"Bad\", \"The Way You Make Me Feel\", \"Man in the Mirror\", and \"Dirty Diana\") reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, a record for most number-one Hot 100 singles from any one album.[13][14]\n
In 1991, Jackson released his eighth studio album, Dangerous, co-produced with Teddy Riley. The album produced four top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100: \"Remember the Time\", \"In the Closet\", \"Will You Be There\" (produced and performed by Jackson as the theme for the film Free Willy) and the number-one hit \"Black or White\".[15] In June 1995, Jackson released his ninth album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, a double album. The first disc, HIStory Begins, is a 15-track greatest hits album. The second disc, HIStory Continues, contains 13 original songs and two cover versions.[16] The album features \"Scream\", a duet with Jackson's youngest sister Janet; \"Earth Song\"; \"They Don't Care About Us\"; and \"You Are Not Alone\".[17] \"You Are Not Alone\" holds the Guinness World Record for the first song ever to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[18][19] \"Earth Song\" was the third single released from HIStory, and it topped the UK Singles Chart for six weeks over Christmas 1995 and sold over 1.2 million copies, making it one of Jackson's most successful singles in the UK.[20] Jackson worked with collaborators including Teddy Riley and Rodney Jerkins to produce his tenth solo album, Invincible (2001). Invincible spawned three singles: \"You Rock My World\", \"Cry\", and \"Butterflies\".[21] Following Jackson's death in 2009, sales of his previous work soared and Jackson became the first act to sell more than 1 million song downloads in a week, with 2.6 million downloads.[22] Following the surge in sales, in March 2010, Sony Music signed a $250 million deal with the Jackson estate to extend their distribution rights to Jackson's back catalog until at least 2017.[23] As part of this deal, two posthumous albums of previously unreleased tracks were released.[24] In 2017, Sony renewed its deal for $250 million, which went into effect in January 2018.[25]\n
^Prior to November 1984, there were no reliable weekly charts from France. In 2000, Fabrice Ferment, in collaboration with SNEP, compiled monthly charts for the period's pre-SNEP charts based on retail sales of the time.\n
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^\"One Day in Your Life\" was the lead single on the eponymous 1981 compilation, having been a non-single track in its initial appearance on Forever, Michael in 1975.[40]\n
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^ ab\"Scream\"/\"Childhood\" was released as a double A-side single, with the songs listed together in most charts but separately in Canada.[52]\n
^Although it was never officially released as a single because of legal difficulties between Michael's label, Epic, and Jermaine's label, Arista, the song peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.[82]\n
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^\"This Is It\" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 18 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[93]\n
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^ abcOn August 23, 2018, it was reported that Sony had admitted in court that the vocals on the three Cascio tracks were not performed by Jackson and were instead recorded after his death by Jason Malachi, apparently missing the first part of Sony's counsel sentence \"[F]or purposes of the argument\" which is used in court not to be an admission, but rather a statement of \"even if the alleged action happened\".[94] However, the next day, Zia Modabber of Sony Music's law firm, Katten Muchin Rosenman, recanted these reports, stating that \"no one has conceded that Michael Jackson did not sing on the songs\".[95]\n
^ abcdPeak chart positions for singles charting on the Australian chart:\n
Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to June 19, 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970 \u2013 1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. pp. 151\u2013152. ISBN0-646-11917-6. N.B. the top 50 portion of the Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and June 19, 1988.
Top 100 (ARIA Chart) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988\u20132010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
\"Why\" and \"I Need You\" (with 3T) ARIA Chart peaks: \"3T \u2013 Australian Singles Chart\". australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
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^ abcdPeak chart positions for singles charting on the Canadian chart:\n
^ abcdPeak chart positions for singles charting on the New Zealand chart:\n
Scapolo, Dean (2007). The Complete New Zealand Music Charts, 1966\u20132006: Singles, Albums DVDs, Compilations. Maurienne House. ISBN978-1-877443-00-8.
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+ "page_snippet": "The Weeknd Ties Michael Jackson's Billboard Hot 100 Record: Shortly after his "Die For You (Remix)" hit No. 1.The Weeknd has officially tied a record set by Michael Jackson on the Billboard Hot 100. The news arrives shortly after The Weeknd and Ariana Grande\u2018s \u201cDie For You (Remix)\u201d jumped from No. 6 to No. 1 on this week\u2019s Hot 100 chart. The new version of the Starboy track gave The Weeknd and Grande their seventh No. 1 each and their second chart-topper together, following their remix of \u201cSave Your Tears\u201d in 2021.",
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According to reports, both artists are now the only male soloists in history to achieve several No. 1s from three different albums. The late King of Pop nabbed multiple No. 1 entries from 1979’s Off The Wall, 1982’s Thriller and 1987’s Bad, while the XO Records founder did the same thing from 2015’s Beauty Behind The Madness, 2016’s Starboy and 2020’s After Hours.
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The news arrives shortly after The Weeknd and Ariana Grande‘s “Die For You (Remix)” jumped from No. 6 to No. 1 on this week’s Hot 100 chart. The new version of the Starboy track gave The Weeknd and Grande their seventh No. 1 each and their second chart-topper together, following their remix of “Save Your Tears” in 2021.\n
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+ "page_snippet": "In honor of what would\u2019ve been Michael Jackson's 60th birthday on Aug. 29, revisit his 14 songs that reached No. 1, and judge for yourself which were the best.Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, has more No. 1 hits than most artists could ever dream of charting \u2013 combined. With 13 No. 1s \u2013 and one more to which he contributed vocals \u2013 Jackson leads the list of male artists with the most chart-topping hits. Co-written by Jackson and Lionel Richie, \"We Are the World\" may have raised more than $75 million for the USA for Africa organization, but it's less a real song than a star-studded and hopelessly overblown PSA and doesn't deserve to be counted as an official Michael Jackson No. 1. The first single from Jackson's \"Bad\" album is also its weakest one. There's nothing egregiously wrong with \"I Just Can't Stop Loving You\" \u2013 it's just that, when it comes to the many superior Jackson hits that missed the No. Like \"We Are the World,\" \"Ben\" is a Michael Jackson No. 1 single in name, but not in spirit. ... In a more just world, Jackson's final No. 1 hit wouldn't have been \u201cYou Are Not Alone,\u201d an overly sentimental ballad that\u2019s more the style of its songwriter, R. Kelly. 1 track with the Jackson 5's charts-topping hit \"I Want You Back,\" Jackson scored his first solo No. 1 with \"Ben\" two years later. \"Ben\" is an earnest ode to a pet rat, recorded for the 1972 horror movie of the same name and written by composer Walter Scharf of \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"-scoring fame. Like \"We Are the World,\" \"Ben\" is a Michael Jackson No.",
+ "page_result": "Ranking Michael Jackson's No. 1 hits, in honor of his 60th birthday
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, has more No. 1 hits than most artists could ever dream of charting \u2013 combined. With 13 No. 1s \u2013 and one more to which he contributed vocals \u2013 Jackson leads the list of male artists with the most chart-topping hits.
His catalog\u00a0has both legendary breadth and depth, considering Jackson was the first artist to score No. 1 hits in the 1970s, \u201980s and\u00a0\u201990s; and that during the \u201980s alone, at his creative peak, he earned 10 No. 1s \u2013\u00a0more than any other artist that decade.
Yet\u00a0for all his record-holding achievements, listeners may be surprised which of Jackson\u2019s singles hit No. 1\u00a0and which songs missed the top spot. Bona fide classics such as \u201cThriller,\u201d \"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin,\u2019 \u201d \"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing),\u201d \u201cGot to Be There,\u201d \u201cSmooth Criminal\u201d and his \u201cScream\u201d collaboration with sister Janet Jackson all failed to reach No. 1, while a good number of arguably lesser singles managed to reach the Billboard Hot 100\u2019s peak.
In honor of what would\u2019ve been Jackson\u2019s 60th birthday on Aug. 29, revisit Jackson\u2019s 14 songs that reached No. 1, and judge for yourself which were the best \u2013 and worst \u2013 of his most-popular songs.
14. \"We Are the World\" (1985)
Oy. Where to start with \"We Are the World,\" the biggest charity single of all time, which recruited 46 singers to contribute a few words each to raise funds to combat poverty in Africa. Co-written by Jackson and Lionel Richie, \"We Are the World\" may have raised\u00a0more than $75 million for the USA for Africa organization, but it's less a real song than a star-studded and hopelessly overblown PSA\u00a0and doesn't deserve to be counted as an official Michael Jackson No. 1.
The first single from Jackson's \"Bad\" album\u00a0is also its weakest one. There's nothing egregiously\u00a0wrong with \"I Just Can't Stop Loving You\" \u2013 it's just that, when it comes to the many superior Jackson hits that missed the No. 1 spot, the song's inclusion on this list feels like a fluke.\u00a0
12. \"Ben\" (1972)
After becoming the youngest artist to collaborate on a No. 1 track\u00a0with the Jackson 5's\u00a0charts-topping hit \"I Want You Back,\" Jackson scored his first solo No. 1 with \"Ben\" two years later. \"Ben\" is an earnest ode to a pet rat, recorded for the 1972 horror movie of the same name and written by composer Walter Scharf of \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"-scoring fame. Like \"We Are the World,\" \"Ben\" is a Michael Jackson No. 1 single in name, but not in spirit.\u00a0
11. \"You Are Not Alone\" (1995)
In a more just world, Jackson's final No. 1 hit wouldn't have been \u201cYou Are Not Alone,\u201d an overly sentimental\u00a0ballad that\u2019s more the style of its songwriter,\u00a0R. Kelly. Considering Jackson recently charted in the top 10 with his unreleased vocals in Drake\u2019s \"Don't Matter to Me,\" there\u2019s still a possibility that another posthumous Jackson feature will replace it as his last charts-topping hit.
10. \"Bad\" (1987)
With \"Bad,\" Jackson became the first and only male artist to chart five No. 1 hits from one album. Its title track is a testament to how formidable\u00a0Jackson's singles catalog is: a perfectly strong track in its own right\u00a0but one that barely cracks the top 10 of his own No. 1s.\u00a0
9. \"Say Say Say\" feat. Paul McCartney\u00a0(1983)
\u201cSay Say Say\u201d deserves an apology \u2013 or at the very least, a second listen \u2013 from every listener who writes off Jackson\u2019s collaborations with McCartney as less than the sum of the two artists\u2019 parts. \u201cSay Say Say\u201d picks up the pace while splitting its verses in two, handing McCartney the earnest opening notes while letting Jackson wail away on his appropriately funky melodies.
8. \"Rock With You\" (1980)
A favorite from Jackson's fifth solo album, \u201cOff the Wall,\u201d the breezy \u201cRock With You\u201d only scratches the surface of Jackson and Quincy Jones\u2019 collaborations to come.
7. \"Black or White\" (1991)
Some parts of Jackson\u2019s racial-unity anthem hold up less than flawlessly in the current cultural climate, with lines like \u201cI\u2019m not going to spend my life being a color\u201d that are probably in need of some unpacking. Yet\u00a0\u201cBlack or White\u201d actually bangs, its undeniably great guitar line vaulting the song to the best of Jackson\u2019s \u201990s No. 1s.
6. \"The Way You Make Me Feel\" (1987)
Sandwiched in the \u201cBad\u201d album run of singles between the swaggering title track and the more profound \u201cMan in the Mirror,\u201d \u201cThe Way You Make Me Feel\u201d is proof that, even almost two decades into his career, Jackson could make an earnest love song as pure as his original Jackson 5 recordings.
5. \u201cDirty Diana\" (1988)
Neither about Princess Diana nor Diana Ross, Jackson's most sinister No. 1 single \u2013 also from \"Bad\" \u2013\u00a0 is also one of his best rock songs. The spiritual successor to \"Billie Jean\" as another groupie cautionary tale, \u201cDirty Diana\u201d is a reminder that Jackson, whose legacy isn\u2019t exactly one as a sex symbol, could channel carnal danger just like the rest of his male pop star peers.
4. \"Man in the Mirror\" (1988)
A career-defining Jackson hit for its statement of self, from an artist with a notoriously conflicted relationship with his own image, \u201cMan in the Mirror\u201d is tragic in the way it foreshadows Jackson\u2019s struggles to come \u2013\u00a0and triumphant as a pop achievement in its own right.
3. \"Beat It\" (1983)
From \"Weird Al\" Yankovic's immortal \"Eat It\" to Fall Out Boy's considerably less-immortal 2008 cover, there's a cartoonish aspect to \"Beat It\" that makes it prime for parody \u2013 or fools lesser artists into thinking they can appropriately do the track justice. Yet \"Beat It\" is a top-tier Jackson single because of how absurd, purposefully or otherwise, anyone else singing it sounds. Only Jackson can\u00a0spit out the track's catchphrase and finesse lyrics like \"Showin\u2019 how funky / And strong is your fight,\" all over a showy Eddie Van Halen guitar line\u00a0\u00a0and make it all sound like a pop classic instead of\u00a0an \u201980s fossil.\u00a0
2. \"Don't Stop \u2019Til You Get Enough\" (1979)
\"Don't Stop \u2019Til You Get Enough\" is Jackson's first No. 1 hit that's not about a pet rat, and famously, the first song he claimed he wrote as a whole. And it's a stunner, six minutes of perfect pop music that courses with electricity\u00a0from Jackson's opening howl.
1. \"Billie Jean\" (1983)
This ranking was, really, a race for No. 2, because no Jackson single can legitimately hold the No. 1 spot other than \"Billie Jean.\" From its iconic opening drumbeats, the song marches in lockstep deeper into the paranoia-seized psyche of its young star. Not a single one of Quincy Jones' production flourishes is out of place, spanning rock and funk and disco and all anchored by a tortured performance by a 24-year-old Jackson that would remain his all-time career best.\u00a0
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+ "page_snippet": "Michael Jackson died almost ten years ago, at the age of 50, leaving behind an incredible legacy of music that played out and discovered by new generations today. Not including his work with the Jackson 5 and Jacksons, Michael's solo career has seen him land 55 Top 40s on the Official Singles ...Michael Jackson died almost ten years ago, at the age of 50, leaving behind an incredible legacy of music that played out and discovered by new generations today. Not including his work with the Jackson 5 and Jacksons, Michael's solo career has seen him land 55 Top 40s on the Official Singles Chart, seven of which have reached Number 1. View Michael Jackson's Official Chart history in full. After the King Of Pop\u2019s untimely death in summer 2009, six Michael Jackson albums hit the Official Albums Top 40 (including a greatest hits at Number 1), while five singles hit the Official Singles Chart Top 40, with Man In The Mirror leading the way. Since then, Jackson has scored 3 posthumous Number 1 albums \u2013 two hits sets and Xscape. Since then, Jackson has scored 3 posthumous Number 1 albums \u2013 two hits sets and Xscape. ... Two years later, Michael released his debut solo single Got To Be There, a ballad that reached Number 5 on the Official Chart and ranks as his 47th biggest single with combined sales of 174,000. It would take nearly a decade for Michael to land his first UK Number 1 single with Motown ballad One Day In Your Life. Released after classics such as Rock With You (399k) and Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (812k), the song spent two weeks at the summit in June 1981. It's not remembered as fondly as some of his other hits, but still places at Number 5 on his all-time chart with 790,000 combined sales.",
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Michael Jackson died almost ten years ago, at the age of 50, leaving behind an incredible legacy of music that played out and discovered by new generations today.\u00a0
Not including his work with the Jackson 5 and Jacksons, Michael's solo career has seen him land 55 Top 40s on the Official Singles Chart, seven of which have reached Number 1. View Michael Jackson's Official Chart history in full.
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As the lead singer of the Jackson 5 aged just 11, Michael helped to land 12 Top 40s on the Official Singles Chart. Their biggest single in the UK is their 1970 debut, I Want You Back, which places at Number 3 on Michael's all-time chart with combined sales of 918,000. 44% of its overall figure comes from streaming, proving the track remains as popular as ever today.\u00a0
After the King Of Pop\u2019s untimely death in summer 2009, six\u00a0Michael Jackson\u00a0albums hit the\u00a0Official Albums Top 40 (including a greatest hits at Number 1), while five singles hit the Official Singles Chart Top 40, with Man In The Mirror leading the way. Since then, Jackson has scored 3 posthumous Number 1 albums \u2013 two hits sets and Xscape.
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Two years later, Michael released his debut solo single Got To Be There, a ballad that reached Number 5 on the Official Chart and ranks as his 47th biggest single with combined sales of 174,000.\u00a0
It would take nearly a decade for Michael to land his first UK Number 1 single with Motown ballad One Day In Your Life. Released after classics such as Rock With You (399k) and Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (812k), the song spent two weeks at the summit in June 1981. It's not remembered as fondly as some of his other hits, but still places at Number 5 on his all-time chart with 790,000 combined sales. 93% of that figure is made up of physical singles, showing how popular it was at the time.\u00a0
From then, Michael was a regular at the top end of the charts, and his '80s singles make up the bulk of his all-time Top 20. 1987 chart-topper I Just Can't Stop Loving You featuring Siedah Garrett is at 20 (464k); follow-up single Bad is at 16 (491k); Smooth Criminal ranks at 12 (614k) and The Way You Make Me Feel places at 11 (645k).\u00a0
Two very different Michael Jackson songs feature at the very top end of the Top 60. 1995's Earth Song is at Number 2 with 1.27 million combined sales (82% of which are physical sales), while 1983's Billie Jean is his biggest single in the UK with 1.44 million combined sales. Released as the second single from his Thriller album in 1983, it was the song that took Michael to a new level and kick started what was to become one of the best-selling albums of all time. With a roughly even split between physical (44%), downloads (29%) and streaming (28%), Billie Jean is one of Michael's tracks that has weathered the dramatic changes in how we consume music and truly stood the test of time.
Michael Jackson's Top 60 singles on the Official Chart*
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TITLE
ARTIST
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YEAR
1
Michael Jackson
Billie Jean
1
Jan-83
2
Michael Jackson
Earth Song
1
Dec-95
3
Jackson 5
I Want You Back
2
Jan-70
4
Michael Jackson
Beat It
3
Apr-83
5
Michael Jackson
One Day In Your Life
1
May-81
6
Michael Jackson
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
3
Sep-79
7
Michael Jackson
Black Or White (& 1992 Remix)
1
Nov-91
8
Michael Jackson
Man In The Mirror
2
Feb-88
9
Michael Jackson
Thriller
10
Nov-83
10
Michael Jackson
You Are Not Alone
1
Sep-95
11
Michael Jackson
The Way You Make Me Feel
3
Dec-87
12
Michael Jackson
Smooth Criminal
8
Nov-88
13
Michael Jackson
Heal The World
2
Dec-92
14
Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
Say Say Say
2
Oct-83
15
Michael Jackson
Love Never Felt So Good
8
Apr-14
16
Michael Jackson
Bad
3
Sep-87
17
Jackson 5
ABC
8
May-70
18
Jacksons
Show You The Way To Go
1
Jun-77
19
Michael Jackson
She's Out Of My Life
3
May-80
20
Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
1
Aug-87
21
Jacksons
Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)
4
Mar-79
22
Jacksons
Blame It On The Boogie
8
Sep-78
23
Michael Jackson
They Don't Care About Us
4
Apr-96
24
Michael Jackson
Dirty Diana
4
Jul-88
25
Michael Jackson
Remember The Time / Come Together
3
Feb-92
26
Michael Jackson
Rock With You
7
Feb-80
27
Jacksons
Can You Feel It
6
Feb-81
28
Michael Jackson
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
11
Mar-84
29
Michael Jackson
Leave Me Alone
2
Feb-89
30
Michael Jackson
Rockin' Robin
3
May-72
31
Michael Jackson
You Rock My World
2
Oct-01
32
Michael Jackson
Wanna Be Startin' Something
8
Jun-83
33
Jackson 5
I'll Be There
4
Nov-70
34
Michael Jackson
Off The Wall
7
Nov-79
35
Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson
Scream
3
Jun-95
36
Michael Jackson
Give In To Me
2
Feb-93
37
Michael Jackson
Ben
7
Nov-72
38
Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney
The Girl Is Mine
8
Nov-82
39
Michael Jackson
Blood On The Dancefloor
1
May-97
40
Michael Jackson
Stranger In Moscow
4
Nov-96
41
Michael Jackson featuring AKON
Hold My Hand
10
Nov-10
42
Michael Jackson
Farewell My Summer Love
7
Jun-84
43
Michael Jackson
History / Ghosts
5
Jul-97
44
Jacksons
Walk Right Now
7
Jul-81
45
3T featuring Michael Jackson
Why
2
Aug-96
46
Michael Jackson
Will You Be There
9
Jul-93
47
Michael Jackson
Got To Be There
5
Feb-72
48
Michael Jackson
In The Closet
8
May-92
49
Jackson 5
Who's Lovin' You
36
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Michael Jackson
Ain't No Sunshine
8
Aug-72
51
Michael Jackson
Liberian Girl
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The Love You Save
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Michael Jackson
Human Nature
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Jul-09
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Michael Jackson
Who Is It
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Jul-92
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Michael Jackson
Another Part Of Me
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Michael Jackson
Jam
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State Of Shock
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Jul-84
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Doctor My Eyes
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60
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Lookin' Through The Windows
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Nov-72
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This chart is based on combined physical singles, digital downloads and audio streams up to June 2018.
Can anyone give me an indication where \"Don't Matter To Me\" is/would be on this list?
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I expected Thriller to be at #4 on the list... it was certified silver on 01/01/1984 for shipments of 250,000 units... it was then certified platinum on 16/02/2018 for additional sales of 600,000... this totals 850,000... can the OCC explain the large discrepancy? Seems to me that Beat It should be #9 and Thriller #4...
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+ "page_snippet": "In honor of what would\u2019ve been Michael Jackson's 60th birthday on Aug. 29, revisit his 14 songs that reached No. 1, and judge for yourself which were the best.Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, has more No. 1 hits than most artists could ever dream of charting \u2013 combined. With 13 No. 1s \u2013 and one more to which he contributed vocals \u2013 Jackson leads the list of male artists with the most chart-topping hits. Co-written by Jackson and Lionel Richie, \"We Are the World\" may have raised more than $75 million for the USA for Africa organization, but it's less a real song than a star-studded and hopelessly overblown PSA and doesn't deserve to be counted as an official Michael Jackson No. 1. The first single from Jackson's \"Bad\" album is also its weakest one. There's nothing egregiously wrong with \"I Just Can't Stop Loving You\" \u2013 it's just that, when it comes to the many superior Jackson hits that missed the No. Like \"We Are the World,\" \"Ben\" is a Michael Jackson No. 1 single in name, but not in spirit. ... In a more just world, Jackson's final No. 1 hit wouldn't have been \u201cYou Are Not Alone,\u201d an overly sentimental ballad that\u2019s more the style of its songwriter, R. Kelly. 1 track with the Jackson 5's charts-topping hit \"I Want You Back,\" Jackson scored his first solo No. 1 with \"Ben\" two years later. \"Ben\" is an earnest ode to a pet rat, recorded for the 1972 horror movie of the same name and written by composer Walter Scharf of \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"-scoring fame. Like \"We Are the World,\" \"Ben\" is a Michael Jackson No.",
+ "page_result": "Ranking Michael Jackson's No. 1 hits, in honor of his 60th birthday
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, has more No. 1 hits than most artists could ever dream of charting \u2013 combined. With 13 No. 1s \u2013 and one more to which he contributed vocals \u2013 Jackson leads the list of male artists with the most chart-topping hits.
His catalog\u00a0has both legendary breadth and depth, considering Jackson was the first artist to score No. 1 hits in the 1970s, \u201980s and\u00a0\u201990s; and that during the \u201980s alone, at his creative peak, he earned 10 No. 1s \u2013\u00a0more than any other artist that decade.
Yet\u00a0for all his record-holding achievements, listeners may be surprised which of Jackson\u2019s singles hit No. 1\u00a0and which songs missed the top spot. Bona fide classics such as \u201cThriller,\u201d \"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin,\u2019 \u201d \"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing),\u201d \u201cGot to Be There,\u201d \u201cSmooth Criminal\u201d and his \u201cScream\u201d collaboration with sister Janet Jackson all failed to reach No. 1, while a good number of arguably lesser singles managed to reach the Billboard Hot 100\u2019s peak.
In honor of what would\u2019ve been Jackson\u2019s 60th birthday on Aug. 29, revisit Jackson\u2019s 14 songs that reached No. 1, and judge for yourself which were the best \u2013 and worst \u2013 of his most-popular songs.
14. \"We Are the World\" (1985)
Oy. Where to start with \"We Are the World,\" the biggest charity single of all time, which recruited 46 singers to contribute a few words each to raise funds to combat poverty in Africa. Co-written by Jackson and Lionel Richie, \"We Are the World\" may have raised\u00a0more than $75 million for the USA for Africa organization, but it's less a real song than a star-studded and hopelessly overblown PSA\u00a0and doesn't deserve to be counted as an official Michael Jackson No. 1.
The first single from Jackson's \"Bad\" album\u00a0is also its weakest one. There's nothing egregiously\u00a0wrong with \"I Just Can't Stop Loving You\" \u2013 it's just that, when it comes to the many superior Jackson hits that missed the No. 1 spot, the song's inclusion on this list feels like a fluke.\u00a0
12. \"Ben\" (1972)
After becoming the youngest artist to collaborate on a No. 1 track\u00a0with the Jackson 5's\u00a0charts-topping hit \"I Want You Back,\" Jackson scored his first solo No. 1 with \"Ben\" two years later. \"Ben\" is an earnest ode to a pet rat, recorded for the 1972 horror movie of the same name and written by composer Walter Scharf of \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"-scoring fame. Like \"We Are the World,\" \"Ben\" is a Michael Jackson No. 1 single in name, but not in spirit.\u00a0
11. \"You Are Not Alone\" (1995)
In a more just world, Jackson's final No. 1 hit wouldn't have been \u201cYou Are Not Alone,\u201d an overly sentimental\u00a0ballad that\u2019s more the style of its songwriter,\u00a0R. Kelly. Considering Jackson recently charted in the top 10 with his unreleased vocals in Drake\u2019s \"Don't Matter to Me,\" there\u2019s still a possibility that another posthumous Jackson feature will replace it as his last charts-topping hit.
10. \"Bad\" (1987)
With \"Bad,\" Jackson became the first and only male artist to chart five No. 1 hits from one album. Its title track is a testament to how formidable\u00a0Jackson's singles catalog is: a perfectly strong track in its own right\u00a0but one that barely cracks the top 10 of his own No. 1s.\u00a0
9. \"Say Say Say\" feat. Paul McCartney\u00a0(1983)
\u201cSay Say Say\u201d deserves an apology \u2013 or at the very least, a second listen \u2013 from every listener who writes off Jackson\u2019s collaborations with McCartney as less than the sum of the two artists\u2019 parts. \u201cSay Say Say\u201d picks up the pace while splitting its verses in two, handing McCartney the earnest opening notes while letting Jackson wail away on his appropriately funky melodies.
8. \"Rock With You\" (1980)
A favorite from Jackson's fifth solo album, \u201cOff the Wall,\u201d the breezy \u201cRock With You\u201d only scratches the surface of Jackson and Quincy Jones\u2019 collaborations to come.
7. \"Black or White\" (1991)
Some parts of Jackson\u2019s racial-unity anthem hold up less than flawlessly in the current cultural climate, with lines like \u201cI\u2019m not going to spend my life being a color\u201d that are probably in need of some unpacking. Yet\u00a0\u201cBlack or White\u201d actually bangs, its undeniably great guitar line vaulting the song to the best of Jackson\u2019s \u201990s No. 1s.
6. \"The Way You Make Me Feel\" (1987)
Sandwiched in the \u201cBad\u201d album run of singles between the swaggering title track and the more profound \u201cMan in the Mirror,\u201d \u201cThe Way You Make Me Feel\u201d is proof that, even almost two decades into his career, Jackson could make an earnest love song as pure as his original Jackson 5 recordings.
5. \u201cDirty Diana\" (1988)
Neither about Princess Diana nor Diana Ross, Jackson's most sinister No. 1 single \u2013 also from \"Bad\" \u2013\u00a0 is also one of his best rock songs. The spiritual successor to \"Billie Jean\" as another groupie cautionary tale, \u201cDirty Diana\u201d is a reminder that Jackson, whose legacy isn\u2019t exactly one as a sex symbol, could channel carnal danger just like the rest of his male pop star peers.
4. \"Man in the Mirror\" (1988)
A career-defining Jackson hit for its statement of self, from an artist with a notoriously conflicted relationship with his own image, \u201cMan in the Mirror\u201d is tragic in the way it foreshadows Jackson\u2019s struggles to come \u2013\u00a0and triumphant as a pop achievement in its own right.
3. \"Beat It\" (1983)
From \"Weird Al\" Yankovic's immortal \"Eat It\" to Fall Out Boy's considerably less-immortal 2008 cover, there's a cartoonish aspect to \"Beat It\" that makes it prime for parody \u2013 or fools lesser artists into thinking they can appropriately do the track justice. Yet \"Beat It\" is a top-tier Jackson single because of how absurd, purposefully or otherwise, anyone else singing it sounds. Only Jackson can\u00a0spit out the track's catchphrase and finesse lyrics like \"Showin\u2019 how funky / And strong is your fight,\" all over a showy Eddie Van Halen guitar line\u00a0\u00a0and make it all sound like a pop classic instead of\u00a0an \u201980s fossil.\u00a0
2. \"Don't Stop \u2019Til You Get Enough\" (1979)
\"Don't Stop \u2019Til You Get Enough\" is Jackson's first No. 1 hit that's not about a pet rat, and famously, the first song he claimed he wrote as a whole. And it's a stunner, six minutes of perfect pop music that courses with electricity\u00a0from Jackson's opening howl.
1. \"Billie Jean\" (1983)
This ranking was, really, a race for No. 2, because no Jackson single can legitimately hold the No. 1 spot other than \"Billie Jean.\" From its iconic opening drumbeats, the song marches in lockstep deeper into the paranoia-seized psyche of its young star. Not a single one of Quincy Jones' production flourishes is out of place, spanning rock and funk and disco and all anchored by a tortured performance by a 24-year-old Jackson that would remain his all-time career best.\u00a0
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