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MFoy t1_iy88fp3 wrote

Reply to comment by BroMan-Z in Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Returns To Billboard Top 10 After 38 Years by lightblue_sky

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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