There are numbers. Michael Jackson“Thriller” jumped from 32nd to 10th place in the ratings Billboard Entering the Hot 100 after Halloween, the King of Pop posthumously made chart history.
On Monday, Jackson became the first artist to crack the top 10 in six different decades, including the '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s, '10s and now the '20s. “Thriller” was released in 1984 in the United States and at that time rose to fourth position.
As a solo artist, Jackson scored his first Hot 100 top 10 hit with 1971's “Got to Be There” and went on to score 30 top 10 hits, including 13 number one hits, throughout his storied career with blockbuster songs like “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” “Bad,” “Man in the Mirror” and many more from his massive catalog. How Billboard As highlighted, the last time Jackson cracked the top 10 was Drake's 2018 track “Don't Matter to Me.”
Jackson surpassed Andy Williams, who died in 2012, to enter the top 10 in five decades.
News of Jackson's return to the Hot 100 came after release of the first trailer For Antoine Fuquabiographical film, Michaelwhich takes a strangely optimistic look at the singer's childhood, despite Jackson himself describing his time in the Jackson 5 as filled with physical abuse from his father and unhappiness.
Although the film wrapped production in May 2024, the Jackson estate has reportedly discovered that the completed version violated a years-long legal settlement with the family of Jordan Chandler, who accused Jackson of molesting him in 1993 when he was 13 and later received a $20 million settlement. Washer reported that the original script focused on Chandler's case in the third act, breaking the agreement that Chandler's story and personality could not be dramatized in a Jackson film.
The singer, who died in 2009 aged 50, was never convicted of any sex-related offences, but was prosecuted in 2005.
Although the biopic was originally scheduled for an April 2025 release date, extensive reshoots pushed it back to October 2025 and then to October 2025. April 2026.
