{"id":128904,"date":"2025-11-11T03:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128904\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:16:12","slug":"michael-jackson-first-act-in-hot-100-top-10-in-six-different-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128904\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson First Act in Hot 100 Top 10 in Six Different Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael Jackson<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThriller\u201d strikes like a beast, rising from No. 32 to No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> dated Nov. 15, granting the late King of Pop a new chart longevity record.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the song, which hit No. 4 on the Hot 100 in 1984, Jackson, who died in 2009, becomes the first artist ever to rank in the top 10 in six distinct decades (the 1970s, \u201880s, \u201890s, 2000s, \u201810s and now \u201820s).<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson surpasses Andy Williams, who died in 2012 and whose history includes placements in the top 10 in five decades (\u201850s, \u201960s, \u201970s, \u201810s and \u201920s, extended since 2018 thanks to \u201cIt\u2019s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson first reached the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 as a soloist in November 1971 with his debut on his own, \u201cGot To Be There.\u201d He boasts 30 top 10s, including 13 No. 1s. Until this week, he last ranked in the top 10 as featured on Drake\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Matter to Me\u201d in 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, with Jackson, then just 11 years old, as a member, the Jackson 5 spent their first week in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 on the last chart of the \u201860s, dated Dec. 27, 1969, with their breakthrough hit, \u201cI Want You Back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Halloween kicking off the Oct. 31-Nov. 6 tracking week, \u201cThriller\u201d drew 14 million official streams (up 57% week-over-week) and 9.3 million in radio airplay audience (up 124%), while selling 3,000 (up 1%) in the United States, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, \u201cThriller\u201d is now Jackson\u2019s sole longest-charting Hot 100 hit: 26 weeks. It one-ups two other classics from his Thriller album, as \u201cBillie Jean\u201d and \u201cBeat It\u201d each spent 25 weeks on the chart beginning in 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cThriller\u201d strikes like a beast, rising from No. 32 to No. 10 on the Billboard Hot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[11579,156,3295,157,3296,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-128904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-chart-beat","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}