In a career that spanned almost all 50 years of his life, Michael Jackson became a mainstay on the Billboard charts. It was his dominance on the weekly Billboard Hot , however, that entered him into the record books: As a solo artist, 13 of his singles went to No. Here, the top 50 Michael Jackson songs are ranked based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot , through the Sept. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted to account for different chart turnover rates over various periods.
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Michael Jackson , the greatest pop artist that ever lived, has a career that spans more than 40 of his 50 years. The de facto star of Motown's boundary-breaking Jackson 5, the sensitive solo singer behind Seventies hits, the vanguard of the MTV era and the timeless voice behind some of the only multi-million-selling Nineties records you could safely call "slept-on. Backed by Motown house band the Funk Brothers, Michael pushes himself to the top of his range, ripping into every word of Robinson's heartbroken lyrics. A "Dangerous"-era outtake, this was revived as the title track of Jackson's remix album. The ominously slinking song has a fittingly creepy origin story. Teddy Riley had blown off a party to work on it — and someone had been shot on the party's dance floor.
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To mark what would have been Michael Jackson 's 60th birthday, we've selected 30 of his greatest ever songs, released during his lifetime. Michael's album Invincible may have been overlooked over the years, but there were some genuinely great moments. The final single taken from his final album was co-written by British musician Marsha Ambrosius, one half of London soul act Floetry. She revealed how she had to take a while to calm down when first meeting Jackson. But as I got into it, I realized it was work, it was a job. I had to vocally conduct a legend. Later the same day, Jackson called writer co-writer Buz Kohan explaining he had wept while watching the performance. White died in April , shortly before he would have completed high school.
There was really something about Michael Jackson. He was so likable. You rooted for him, were happy for him. Jackson was the most sensational performer — the full package — of his era. From his voice to his image to his dancing, it was so easy to get swept up in his High Pop Art. Off the Wall , his first adult solo album, showed off an extraordinary young man with astonishing moves, and Thriller , well, Thriller was about something more than marketing; it was the work of a pop auteur of unparalleled gifts, as both a composer and importantly a celebrity as well. Then things got weird.
