(Not to diminish MJ’s accomplishment, ‘cause I’m certainly a die-hard MJ fan, it is my understanding that Cher was the first artist to have Top 10 hits in six different decades. Maybe Mr. Jackson’s is the first “male” artist to reach that achievement. ~ Barb | From Wikipedia: One of the best-selling music artists in history, Cher has sold over 100 million records and is the only solo artist with number-one singles on the US Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades (1960s–2020s). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher)
By Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone
The numbers are in. As Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” jumps from Number 32 to Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 following Halloween, the King of Pop has posthumously made chart history.
On Monday, Jackson became the first artist to reach the Top 10 in six different decades including the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, 2000s, ‘10s and now ‘20s. “Thriller” released in 1984 in the United States and, at the time, surged to Number Four.
As a solo artist, Jackson first reached the Hot 100’s Top 10 with 1971’s “Got to Be There,” and would go on to achieve 30 Top 10s — including 13 Number One hits — throughout his storied career thanks to blockbuster songs such as “Beat It”, “Billie Jean,” “Bad,” “Man in the Mirror,” and more among his massive catalog. As Billboard highlighted, Jackson last rose to the Top 10 as a feature on Drake’s 2018 track “Don’t Matter to Me.”
Jackson surpassed Andy Williams, who died in 2012, and ranked in the Top 10 across five decades.
News of the Jackson’s return to the Hot 100 arrives after the release of the first trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s biopic, Michael, which featured an oddly upbeat take on the singer’s childhood, despite Jackson himself describing his time in the Jackson 5 as filled with physical abuse by his father and unhappiness.
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