Bad
It's from 1987, before you were born.
- Artist
- Michael Jackson
- Genre
- Pop
- Released
- 1987
- Note
- follow-up to Thriller
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About
As of 2026, it's 39 years old.
Bad had the impossible job of following Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, and Michael Jackson responded the only way he knew how — by making a record that produced five consecutive number-one singles, a feat no album had ever achieved. When your 'disappointing' follow-up does that, you're in a category of one.
'Smooth Criminal,' 'The Way You Make Me Feel,' and the title track kept Jackson firmly at the top and gave MTV more iconic videos.
Slick, ambitious, and record-breaking in its own right, Bad is the album that proved following the biggest record ever was only impossible for everyone except Michael Jackson.
