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Thriller Album 25th Anniversary

Written by Mwabi Murdock | Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | 0 Comments

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The Thriller album sold one hundred and four million copies worldwide.

It spent 37 weeks at number 1.

It won 8 Grammys.

It produced seven Top 10 hits.

It remains one of the biggest selling albums 25 years later.

Pretty impressive gloved one.

To spice things up on the 25th anniversary release, Michael teamed up with Akon, Fergie, Will.i.am, and Kanye West.

Akon remakes “Wanna Be Starting Something”, Will.i.am takes on “The Girl is Mine” and “Pretty Young Thing”, Fergie goes with “Beat It”, and Kanye West reworks “Billie Jean.”

Old heads hate the end result and young people love the new energy brought to the album.

For old times, you gots to relive the Thriller video below……don’t front, you know you were right there asking your parents for a red leather jacket and silver glove back in the day….