Jackson’s smashing of the network’s racial barriers was only one aspect of Thriller’s unprecedented crossover. Seven of its nine songs were Top 10 hits, it earned eight Grammy awards, and topped the Billboard charts for 37 weeks, matching its American success internationally to become the biggest-selling album of all time, earning 32 platinum certifications in the US and moving over 100 million albums worldwide. Such a phenomenal triumph pushed Jackson into the stratosphere and Bad - the eagerly-anticipated 1987 sequel to Thriller, co-produced once again with Quincy Jones - kept him there, generating five number one singles on the Billboard charts and selling 30 million copies internationally, two thirds of which were outside of the US.
Jackson parted ways with Jones for 1991’s Dangerous, another global blockbuster. Each follow-up album was first compared to Thriller before being accepted as its own work, and albums such as Bad, Dangerous, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, the subsequent Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, and finally Invincible all have defining moments that will continue to thrill future generations as Jackson is rediscovered by new audiences.HIStory, a 1995 double-disc set that paired a disc of hits with a new album, produced a couple of international number one singles. The follow-up album, Thriller, more than proved that point, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time. From the irresistible grooves of “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough,” it was apparent that Jackson’s magic had modern, lasting potential. With producer Quincy Jones, young Jackson resculpted his music to be among pop's most innovative and exciting. After all, it was Off the Wall-Jackson’s fifth studio album-that signaled a new era had arrived for MJ.
The Indispensable Collection features every Michael Jackson studio album from 1979’s Off the Wall until his 2009 death, with the addition of Live at Wembley July 16, 1988.
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