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About Thriller
Fast Facts
- Released November 30, 1982
- Spawed seven Top 10 singles
- Only "Baby Be Mine" and "The Lady in My Life" weren't singles
- Has sold at least 65 million copies; some estimates say 100 million.
- Won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
- In the Library of Congress as a "culturally significant recording."
- Ranked #20 on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time"
- Re-released as "Thriller: Special Edition" in October, 2001...
- And again as "Thriller 25" in February, 2008.
Track listing
- Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
- Baby Be Mine
- The Girl is Mine
- Thriller
- Beat It
- Billie Jean
- Human Nature
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- The Lady in My Life
Thriller: Special Edition
Original track listing, plus "Someone in the Dark," "Carousel" and the original demo of "Billie Jean." Also included audio interviews with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton.Thriller 25
Original tracks, plus...- Vincent Price's Thriller (song) voice-over session
- The Girl Is Mine 2008 (with will.i.am)
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008 (with will.i.am)
- Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008 (with Akon)
- Beat It 2008 (with Fergie)
- Billie Jean 2008 (with Kanye West)
- For All Time
- Got the Hots*
(*Japan only)
Thriller 25: Deluxe Edition
Included all the above, plus additional interviews (Jones/Temperton), "Billie Jean (Underground Remix)," an instrumental of "Thriller," and DVD featuring the Billie Jean, Beat It and Thriller short films/music videos and Michael's historic Motown 25 performance of Billie Jean.CREDIT: Some information gleaned from various Wikipedia pages
