Thanks to spooky-season smash "Thriller", it looks like Michael "King of Pop" Jackson has achieved a historic first.
With "Thriller" rising from spot 32 to 10 on the November 15th Billboard Hot 100, Jackson has officially scored top 10 hits in six decades: the '70s, '80s, '90s, aughts, '10s, and '20s. For the trivia nerds out there, Jackson's decade-spanning feat began with his November 1971 song "Got to Be There". The last time Jackson had a stake in the top 10 was in 2018, as a posthumous feature on Drake's "Don't Matter to Me". (Jackson died in 2009.)
The "Billie Jean" singer has overtaken Andy Williams, who had top 10 hits in five decades, thanks to "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" getting some heavy rotation since 2018 and thus augmenting his '50s-'70s dominance.
"Thriller" racked up 14 million streams, 9.3 million instances of radio airplay, and sold 3,000 times in the week from Halloween to November 6th. "Thriller" has also become Jackson's longest-charting Hot 100 hit, at 26 weeks.
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