Michael Jackson may have left the stage sixteen years ago, but the King of Pop is still breaking records like it’s 1983.
On Monday, November 10, Billboard confirmed that Jackson's legendary hit “Thriller” is back in the Top 10 of the Hot 100, officially making him the first artist ever to score Top 10 hits in six different decades. That’s the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, 2000s, 2010s — and now the 2020s. The feat breaks a record long held by the late Andy Williams, who scored Top 10 hits in five different decades.
Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" returns to the top 10 on the Hot 100 for the first time since its original run in 1984 (#10).It previously peaked at #4. pic.twitter.com/3BSexF2Enp
— chart data (@chartdata) November 10, 2025Like Williams’ Christmas anthem — “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” — that climbs back into rotation every December, “Thriller” does the same thing every Halloween. This year, the surge was massive. Billboard reported that the spooky pop staple racked up about 14 million official U.S. streams between October 31 and November 6, up 57 percent from the week before. Add in roughly 9 million in radio airplay, and that wave was enough to push it straight into the Top 10.
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During a 2007 interview with Ebony, Jackson reflected on the mindset that fueled his biggest album. Coming off the success of Off the Wall, he wanted his next project to be flawless. “If you take an album like Nutcracker Suite, every song is a killer, every one,” he said at the time. “That was my purpose for the next album.” That “next album” became Thriller — the record that shattered every expectation and rewrote music history.
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Released in 1982, it went on to win eight Grammy Awards in 1984, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year for “Beat It,” and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for “Thriller.” Jackson also took home eight American Music Awards the same year, breaking another record.
The album spent 37 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s chart, sold an estimated 70 million copies worldwide, and remains the best-selling album of all time according to Guinness World Records. In 2009, the “Thriller” short film became the first music video ever inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry for its cultural and artistic impact.
Of course, Thriller isn’t Jackson’s only gem. In fact, his 1987 follow-up, Bad, made history as the first album ever to produce five No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 — “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Bad,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “Man in the Mirror,” and “Dirty Diana.”
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