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Wot_Gorilla_2112 t1_iy55f9q wrote

It is the 40th anniversary of the album in just two days after all. (11/30/82).

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CrazyWhite t1_iy6at3o wrote

Which means that 40 years ago right now only a very small handful of human beings had ever heard Thriller, Beat It, or Billie Jean.

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DigitalPriest t1_iy6xwip wrote

Na man, we'd heard Beat It. Just a shameless parody of Weird Al's Eat it. That no talent clown had to go and make Al's fly jacket into a 'Michael Jackson Jacket' and things have just never been the same since.

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MFoy t1_iy88hxp wrote

Thriller wouldn't be released as a single for another 13 months, it was the seventh single from the album.

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GolgiApparatus1 t1_iy8b5y7 wrote

And an even smaller amount got a thrill beating it to Billie Jean King

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5degreenegativerake t1_iy7w6z5 wrote

40 years ago the album had not been released. Chill.

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merelyadoptedthedark t1_iy819a7 wrote

Singles came out before the album is released. That's how people knew they need to rush out the first day it's available to buy it.

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TheBeardedDen t1_iy7w8pq wrote

Instead of bot posting for upvotes. Use your brain just a bit more in life. Be useful instead of ignorant.

40 years ago is before the album ever released. So yes, only a handful of people ever heard those songs.

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SFCanman t1_iy7wl88 wrote

its from the weird al bio pic... which is a parody of biopics. very funny highly recommend.

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BroMan-Z t1_iy7zvbu wrote

The song came out that long after Halloween?

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MFoy t1_iy88fp3 wrote

The song Thriller wasn't a generational hit at the time. It did quite well, climbing up to #4 on the billboard charts, but it was the SEVENTH single released from the album, it wasn't released as a single until January 1984, more than a year after the album Thriller came out. People were getting kind of sick of Jackson at that point, because the album was churning out hit after hit.

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ethan-bubblegum-tate t1_iy912ox wrote

It was the video that did it.

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repowers t1_iy96jg7 wrote

The video release was an event. Like, nobody had made a feature-length music video before. It was news.

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It_is_not_me t1_iy7z62b wrote

No way had this been released in current times would they have waited until after Halloween.

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