Beat It and Billie Jean are singles from which Michael Jackson album?
"U.S. It is called ""Thriller (Google Play Exclusive Version)"". It adds a tenth track to the original, ""Billie Jean (Home Demo from 1981)"". Notes Personnel as listed in the album's liner notes are: Bibliography Thriller (Michael Jackson album) Thriller is the sixth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on November 30, 1982, in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records. It explores genres similar to Jackson's previous album, ""Off the Wall,"" including pop, post-disco, rock and funk. Recording sessions took place from April to November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, with"
"fire, causing one to exclaim, ""This must be really good!"" ""Beat It"" was released on February 14, 1983, following the successful chart performances of ""The Girl Is Mine"" and ""Billie Jean"". Frank DiLeo, the vice president of Epic Records, convinced Jackson to release ""Beat It"" while ""Billie Jean"" was heading towards number one. Dileo, who later became Jackson's manager, predicted that both singles would remain in the Top 10 at the same time. ""Billie Jean"" remained atop the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for seven weeks, before being toppled by ""Come On Eileen"", which stayed at No. 1 for a single week,"
"before Jackson reclaimed the position with ""Beat It"". ""Billie Jean"" and ""Beat It"" occupied Top 5 positions at the same time, a feat matched by very few artists. The single remained at the top of the Hot 100 for a total of three weeks. The song also charted at No. 1 on the US R&B singles chart and No. 14 on the ""Billboard"" Top Tracks chart in the US. ""Billboard"" ranked it at the No. 5 song for 1983. ""Beat It"" also claimed the top spot in Spain and The Netherlands, reached No. 3 in the UK and the Top"
"first African American artist to have his music videos placed in heavy rotation on MTV, with his videos for the songs “Beat It,” and “Billie Jean” (additionally, Donna Summer placed the first two videos by an African American female artist with ""She Works Hard for the Money"" and ""Unconditional Love"", all in 1983). Jackson's ""Thriller"" album from 1982 is the best-selling album of all time, selling 25 million copies during the decade. His other album, 1987’s ""Bad"", has the honour of being the first album in history to have 5 number-one singles on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Its accompanying world"
"to raise their children, first in Gary, Indiana, then later dealing with The Jackson 5's early fame and its consequences. Part two of the film is based on the struggles of young Michael Jackson as he deals with his brothers marrying early into The Jackson 5 success, his problems with acne as a teenager, his eventual solo superstardom based on the success of his albums ""Off the Wall"" and ""Thriller"" and his legendary Motown 25 performance of ""Billie Jean"" as well as his difficult relationship with his father. Michael Jackson’s voice is heard on: ""Beat It,"" ""Human Nature,"" ""Billie Jean,"""
"the song was an ""uncharacteristic dalliance with the rock idiom"". The track also won praise from Jackson biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, who stated that the song was ""rambunctious"". ""Beat It"" has been recognized with several awards. At the 1984 Grammy Awards, the song earned Jackson two of a record-eight awards: Record of the Year and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. The track won the Billboard Music Award for favorite dance/disco 12"" LP in 1983. The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a few months after its release, for shipments of at least one million"
"of the album started in summer 2011, when John 5 released the first of 4 singles from the album on digital release only. The first being a cover of the Michael Jackson track Beat It. The track was released on August 29, 2011, on what would have been Jackson's 53rd birthday. There were three more single releases: Welcome to Violence, Noche Acosador and The Castle. On September 16, 2011, it was announced the cover for the album would feature a painting of John 5 by Rob Zombie. It was also announced that a DVD would accompany the final album release."
"No. 1 video, in both their critic's and reader's poll. The video was later inducted into the Music Video Producer's Hall of Fame. The music video of the song appears on the video albums: ""Video Greatest Hits – HIStory"", ""HIStory on Film, Volume II"", ""Number Ones"", on the bonus DVD of ""Thriller 25"" and ""Michael Jackson's Vision"". On July 14, 1984, Jackson performed ""Beat It"" live with his brothers during The Jacksons' Victory Tour. The brothers were joined on stage by Eddie Van Halen, who played the guitar in his solo spot. The song became one of Jackson's signature songs;"
"of ""This Is It"" were added to the album; the original and an orchestra version that is over one minute longer. The second disc consists of four unreleased versions of Michael Jackson's classic hits. The disc contains three demo versions of Michael Jackson's ""She's Out of My Life"" (1979), ""Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"" (1982) and ""Beat It"" (1982). The disc's fourth track is a spoken word poem by Jackson, entitled ""Planet Earth"", which was already published in the liner notes of Michael Jackson's 1991 album ""Dangerous"". Upon its release, ""This Is It"" received mixed to positive reviews from music critics."
"Do It Again Medley with Billie Jean ""Do It Again Medley with Billie Jean"" is a song by the Italian music project Club House, released in 1983. The song combines elements of two hits made famous by other artists: ""Do It Again"", a 1973 top-ten hit by Steely Dan and Michael Jackson's number-one song from earlier in the year, ""Billie Jean"". Songwriting credit on the track is given to Jackson as well as the primary members of Steely Dan, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The song reached the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at number 75, but was a much bigger hit"
"fact you don't want to play music by a black guy."" His position persuaded MTV to begin airing ""Billie Jean"" and later ""Beat It"", (along with Prince's ""Little Red Corvette"") which led to a long partnership and later helped other black music artists to gain mainstream recognition. MTV denies claims of racism in their broadcasting. The popularity of his videos, such as ""Beat It"" and ""Billie Jean"", helped to place the young channel ""on the map"" and MTV's focus shifted in favor of pop and R&B. Jackson transformed the medium of music video into an art form and promotional tool"
"The Beat Goes On (Cash Cash album) The Beat Goes On is the third full-length album by electronic music group Cash Cash. The full-length version was only licensed in Japan and the EP version was self-released worldwide on Cash Cash Music. Both formats contained the two songs ""Michael Jackson (The Beat Goes On)"" and ""I Like It Loud,"" which were also soon after released as singles by Dutch independent dance label Spinnin' Records. Lyric videos were released for both singles on Spinnin' Records with the song ""Michael Jackson (The Beat Goes On)"" paying tribute to American singer Michael Jackson. The"
"""Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008"" reached number three in Sweden, four in New Zealand, eight in Australia, ten in France and thirty-two in Canada, but had disappointing sales in America. These were Jackson's first singles since ""One More Chance"" in 2003. The album track ""Beat It 2008"" also began charting in European countries, reaching number 26 in Switzerland, 31 in Denmark, 43 in Sweden, 60 in Japan, 74 in Germany, 75 in Austria, and 77 in Canada. as did ""Billie Jean 2008"", reaching 91 in Germany. Critics reacted positively to the album, much like their review on the original. All"
"many of Michael Jackson's hits, such as ""Bad"", ""Thriller"", ""Beat It"", ""Billie Jean"", ""Smooth Criminal"", ""Black or White"", ""The Way You Make Me Feel"", etc. Initial launches of the game included a limited edition replica of Jackson's sequined glove. It was later released for the Nintendo 3DS, iOS and PlayStation Vita. It was announced that the game would be released on Mac OS X, Wii U and iPad 2. The game sold 2 million units in two months, not including Japanese sales, making it one of the best-selling Wii title games. The Wii, PS3, and Kinect versions of the game"
"Song"" during the HIStory World Tour) after performing Thriller. Another live version of the song is available on the DVD ""Live at Wembley July 16, 1988"". The song would have also been performed as part of the This Is It concerts which were canceled due to Jackson's death. Jackson's ""Beat It"" has been cited as one of the most successful, recognized, awarded and celebrated songs in the history of pop music; both the song and video had a large impact on pop culture. The song is said to be a ""pioneer"" in black rock music, and is considered one of"
"Immortal Megamix ""Immortal Megamix: Can You Feel It/Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough/Billie Jean/Black or White (Immortal Version)"", often shortened to just ""Immortal Megamix"", is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 1, 2011 as the first single from the posthumous soundtrack remix album ""Immortal"". In October 2011, Sony Music Entertainment announced that the soundtrack to Cirque du Soleil's show """" entitled ""Immortal"". ""Immortal Megamix"" became the debut track from this album, which was composed of four of Michael's greatest hits - ""Can You Feel It,"" ""Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough,"" ""Billie Jean,"""
"and Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male, as its artist. ""Thriller"" also won another Grammy for Best Engineered Recording – Non Classical in 1984, awarding Bruce Swedien for his work on the album. The AMA Awards for 1984 provided Jackson with an Award of Merit and AMAs for Favorite Male Artist, Soul/R&B, and Favorite Male Artist, Pop/Rock. ""Beat It"" won Jackson AMAs for Favorite Video, Soul/R&B, Favorite Video, Pop/Rock, and Favorite Single, Pop/Rock. ""Thriller"" won him AMAs for Favorite Album, Soul/R&B, and Favorite Album, Pop/Rock. In addition to the album, Jackson released ""Thriller"", a 14-minute music video directed by John Landis,"
"he performed it on all of his world tours: Bad, Dangerous and HIStory. The October 1, 1992 Dangerous Tour performance of ""Beat It"" was included in the ""Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection"" box set. The DVD was later repackaged as """". Jackson also performed the song on the """", a concert celebrating the musician's thirtieth year as a solo performer. The performance featured Slash as the song's guest guitarist. A highlight of Jackson's solo concert tour performances of the song is that would he would begin the song on a cherry picker (which he would also later use with ""Earth"
"beginning of Michael's solo career in earnest with 1979's ""Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"" and the massive hit ""Billie Jean,"" released four years later. Though it's not as comprehensive as 1995's 21-track Ultimate Collection, The Jacksons Story holds together well and still offers a decent selection of the band's career highlights. The Jacksons Story The Jacksons Story, an album released on Hip-O Select/UTV Records on July 20, 2004 and later re-released on August 28, 2007, covers fourteen years of hit singles scored by the R&B group Jacksons between 1969 and 1982. It not only covers the quintet's (or sextet's)"
"Michael Jackson's This Is It (album) Michael Jackson's This Is It (or simply This Is It) is a posthumous two-disc soundtrack album by American singer Michael Jackson. Released by MJJ Music on October 26, 2009, ""This Is It"" features previously released music, as well as six previously unreleased recordings by Michael Jackson. ""This Is It"" was released to coincide with the theatrical release of ""Michael Jackson's This Is It"", a concert film documenting Michael Jackson's rehearsals for the This Is It concert series at the O2 Arena in London. ""This Is It"" is the sixth album to be released by"
"Jackson and Paul McCartney recording ""The Girl Is Mine""; it was completed on the final day of mixing, November 8, 1982. Several members of the band Toto were involved in the album's recording and production. Jackson wrote four songs for the record: ""Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"", ""The Girl Is Mine"", ""Beat It"" and ""Billie Jean"". Unlike many artists, Jackson did not write these songs on paper. Instead, he dictated into a sound recorder; when recording he would sing from memory. The relationship between Jackson and Jones became strained during the recording. Jackson spent much of his time rehearsing dance steps"
"the fifth single from ""Dangerous"" on August 31, 1992, by Jackson's record label, Epic Records. The lyrics of the song tell of a man who is left in despair when his lover suddenly leaves him. He learns that she was unfaithful to him and wants to know with whom she cheated. Several music critics compared ""Who Is It"" to Jackson's 1983 single ""Billie Jean"". Jon Pareles, a writer for ""The New York Times"", described ""Who Is It"" as an ""imitation"" of ""Billie Jean"". Chris Willman of the ""Los Angeles Times"" claimed that the track ""recaptures some of the slinky, insinuating"
"Midnight Runners, The Go-Go's, Elvis Costello, Men at Work and Soft Cell, mixed in with the usual AOR fare. WPLJ's ratings ended up being better than those of WAPP after WAPP started playing commercials in the Fall of 1982. In early 1983, the station added ""Billie Jean"" by Michael Jackson, playing it several times a day (note that many AOR stations, including WNEW-FM, added that song and it did chart on the rock tracks chart). In March, WPLJ added Jackson's other hit ""Beat It"", which received very positive reaction. While Jackson was not a typical AOR artist, that cut was"
"Girl Is Mine"". The song reached number one on ""Billboard""'s Hot 100 chart, where it remained for seven weeks. After seven weeks at number one, the song fell to number 5, and stayed in the top ten for 11 weeks. ""Billboard"" ranked it at the No. 2 song for 1983. ""Billie Jean"" topped the R&B chart within three weeks, and became Jackson's fastest-rising number one single since ""ABC"", ""The Love You Save"" and ""I'll Be There"" in 1970, which he recorded as a member of The Jackson 5. It remained at number one for nine weeks on the R&B chart,"
"Jackson seem masculine for once, and only in the context of Fergie's tough-by-way-of-""Kids Incorporated"" interpretation of the tune"". Tom Ewing of ""Pitchfork"" observed that Fergie's ""nervous reverence is a waste of time"". American rock band Fall Out Boy covered ""Beat It"". The studio version was digitally released on March 25, 2008 by Island Records as the only single from the band's first live album, ""Live in Phoenix"" (2008). The song features a guitar solo by John Mayer, which was performed by Eddie Van Halen in the original song. In the United States, the song peaked at No. 19 on the"
"Cure (""Wailing Wall""), Sailor (""Glass of Champagne""), Aneka (""Japanese Boy""), and Eiffel 65 (""Blue"") were covered in the album in typical Bates style. Amongst The Bates' commercially most successful singles was their cover version of Michael Jackson's ""Billie Jean"" (1995), which reached No. 10 in the Swiss charts, and No. 67 in the UK Singles Chart, gaining them the highest charts entries of their career. Some other well-received songs were the Shakespears Sister cover ""Hello (Turn Your Radio On)"" (1994), ""A Real Cool Time"" (1995), ""It's Getting Dark"" (1996), and ""Independent Love Song"" (1997). Fan favourites were ""It's Getting Dark"","
"and soul"". MTV, VH1, FOX, and Jackson's record label began marketing Jackson as the ""King of Pop"" to coincide with the release of ""Dangerous"" and the music video for ""Black or White"", the album's first single. On November 11, the Argentinian version of the compilation was released. It contains 2 bonustracks: the song ""Come Together"" (that is featured in Moonwalker and also the album, released in 1995) and a radio edit of the Megamix of the Thriller album. 2 tracks on the album, ""Billie Jean"" and ""Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"" were named incorrectly as ""Billy Jean"" and ""Don't"
"Michael Jackson singles discography American singer Michael Jackson has released 72 singles (including eight as a featured artist). His first entry on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 was ""Got to Be There"" (1971), which peaked at number four. Jackson's first number-one hit was ""Ben"" (1972). Jackson continued to release singles through the 1970s. The album ""Off the Wall"" spawned five singles, including the chart-topping ""Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"" (1979) and ""Rock with You"" (1979). Both are certified platinum by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) sales in excess of 4 million and 2 million copies respectively. Jackson's first"
"Association of New Zealand for the sales of over 30,000 units in New Zealand. It was the third best-selling album of 2009 based on worldwide sales. The title track, ""This Is It"", earned Michael Jackson a Grammy Nomination in 2011 for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. Michael Jackson's This Is It (album) Michael Jackson's This Is It (or simply This Is It) is a posthumous two-disc soundtrack album by American singer Michael Jackson. Released by MJJ Music on October 26, 2009, ""This Is It"" features previously released music, as well as six previously unreleased"
"a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Triumph (The Jacksons album) Triumph is the fourteenth studio album by the Jacksons, released in 1980 on Epic Records. It was certified platinum in the U.S. and peaked at No. 10 on the ""Billboard"" 200. The ""Triumph"" album sold three million copies in its original run. Hit singles from the album were ""Lovely One"", ""Heartbreak Hotel"" (which was renamed ""This Place Hotel"" to avoid confusion with the Elvis Presley song of the same name) and ""Can You Feel It"". The Jacksons shared lead vocals and solo spots on some songs, but Michael Jackson, who"
"Bad tour. This track has been sampled on at least 20 different hip-hop, R&B and gospel songs, including most notably: These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of ""This Place Hotel"" (previously ""Heartbreak Hotel""). This Place Hotel ""This Place Hotel"" (originally named ""Heartbreak Hotel"") was a hit recording by the Jacksons released in 1980. Written and composed by Michael, the song would precede Jackson's own hit, ""Billie Jean"". While his brothers did not sing background vocals, they were credited with playing percussion on the album while brother Tito contributed a guitar solo. The song has a"
"type song that was a good vehicle for the band approach we wanted to cultivate. I had fun slurring the chorus: [the lyric] 'Blame It on the Boogie' could be sung in one breath without putting my lips together."" Despite the Mick Jackson original reaching a #61 peak on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in September 1978, Epic Records that month released the Jacksons' version of ""Blame It on the Boogie"" as the advance single from the ""Destiny"" album. Although ""Blame It on the Boogie"" returned the Jacksons to the Hot 100 after five flop singles, it was not the single"
"to effect a major comeback for the Jacksons, peaking at #54; it would be the follow-up, ""Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)"", which would briefly restore the Jacksons' Top Ten fortunes. However, ""Blame It on the Boogie"" did reach #3 R&B and would be coupled with ""Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)"" on an extended club play single which would reach #20 on the dance charts in 1979. In the UK, both the Mick Jackson version and the Jacksons' were released within a few days of each other in September 1978. The UK music press, struck by the"