It wasn't until 21 years later, after Michael’s death in June, 2009 that it became a much bigger hit, reaching Number 2 in July 2009.ġ0, With six Top 5 singles, Bad is the only studio album, that has spawned so many Official Singles Chart Top 5 hits. The title track peaked at Number 3 the following month.ĩ, Man In The Mirror, which was released as a single in February 1988, was the only track from Bad not to go Top 20 in the UK’s Official Singles Chart it peaked at Number 21. Contrary to popular belief, the title track did not reach Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart Bad’s Number 1 single came from I Just Can’t Stop Loving You which hit the top spot in August, 1987. Michael Jackson in the photo that was used for the Bad album cover in 1987. The horns sound strong and transparent, with NO sibilance, even on inner groove tracks like track A5 Just Good Friends.
At the same time, the treble is clear as a bell. At that point, Great Britain was the only country in the world where Bad outsold Thriller.ĥ, Bad is now the UK’s ninth biggest selling album of all time, while Thriller has surged ahead into sixth place.Ħ, Bad, the track, was intended to be a duet with Prince, although scheduling conflicts meant that The King Of Pop and The Artist Formally Known As A Symbol never got to record it together.ħ, Bad had no less than nine of its eleven tracks released as singles.Ĩ, Excluding 1995's HIStory, Michael Jackson has never had more than one Number 1 single from any of his studio albums. After a wet clean, the vinyl is dead quiet with thunderous bass. It was also the first album in history to spend. Thriller was released in 1982 and spent nearly 2 1/2 years on the Billboard album chart with 37 weeks at No. Bad’s predecessor, Thriller, was the UK’s third biggest selling album of the 1980s. Michael Jackson’s Thriller is the biggest album of all time, with more than 30 million sales alone in the States and an estimated 100 million worldwide. And, as it continued to sell in vast quantities long into the following year (980,000 copies), it became the third biggest selling album of 1989, too.Ĥ, For the rest of the 1980s, Bad was the UK’s second biggest selling album (behind Dire Straits’ 1985 album, Brothers In Arms). When released ‘Bad’ became the fastest selling album ever in the UK. At one point it ranked as the world second biggest selling album of all time, behind ‘Thriller.’. To celebrate, looks back at one of the most iconic albums of all time with 10 Official Chart Facts!ġ, Bad debuted at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart on September 13, 1987, and stayed at the top for five weeks.Ģ, In its first week on sale, Bad sold over 350,000 copies here in the UK, which, at that point, made it the fastest selling album in Official Charts history (it is now the eleventh).ģ, After shifting 1.6 million copies in under four months, Bad became the biggest selling album of 1987 in the UK. ‘Bad’ was Michael’s last album recorded with Quincy Jones and is his second biggest selling album with sales of over 32 million copies sold. ‘And the whole world has to answer right now, Just to tell you once again, Who’s bad!’Ģ5 years ago this month, Michael Jackson’s seminal 1987 album, Bad, topped the Official Albums Chart.