Anyone who watched MTV in December 1983 remembers the red jacket and the zombies. More than four decades later, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” has climbed higher on the British singles chart than it ever did during its original run.
The song jumped 12 places to No. 5 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart this week, according to the Official Charts Company, landing a brand-new peak 43 years after its release. It is the first time “Thriller” has ever reached the UK Top 5. Its previous best, No. 9, came only last year, and this week’s climb arrived with a 74% increase in consumption over the week before.
The Halloween surge reached American charts too. On the Billboard Hot 100 dated Nov. 7, which blends streaming, radio airplay and sales, “Thriller” returned at No. 20 after its streams rose 49% to 9.3 million in the tracking week, Billboard reported. A year ago the song reached No. 10 on the same chart, which made Jackson the first artist in history with top 10 hits in six different decades.
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The renewed attention has been building all year. After the biopic Michael opened in theaters on April 24, the Thriller album climbed back to No. 5 on the Billboard 200, joining the greatest-hits set Number Ones in the top 10.
The track was the seventh and final single from Jackson’s 1982 album of the same name. Written by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones, it was released in Britain in November 1983 and in the United States on Jan. 23, 1984, where it peaked at No. 4. The album has since sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and remains the best-selling album of all time.
Much of the song’s staying power can be credited back to its creepy and cool video. Directed by John Landis, the short film premiered on MTV on Dec. 2, 1983. Michael Peters choreographed the zombie dance, and both the dance and Jackson’s red jacket left a lasting mark on pop culture. In 2009, “Thriller” became the first music video ever inducted into the National Film Registry, which preserves works judged culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.
That routine still fills streets every October. In New York, the Village Halloween Parade has featured 100 dancers performing it along the route, and cities including Lexington, Kentucky, stage full re-enactments with hundreds of costumed zombies.
The song’s chart life now follows the calendar. Each fall, seasonal playlists and organized fan campaigns send “Thriller” back up the rankings, a pattern that has returned it to the Hot 100 year after year. This season’s numbers pushed it past a ceiling it had never broken in Britain, giving a 1983 single its strongest UK chart week yet.
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