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Michael Jackson's best selling studio albums
We look at the albums which made Michael Jackson a critical and commercial success, ranked in order of global album sales, from Invincible to Thriller.
: the only album in music history to have sold over 100 million copies, Thriller was a commercial and critical success for Jackson. The album won an unprecedented eight Grammys and, according to Time magazine, at the height of Thriller's popularity Epic Records was selling more than a million copies a week worldwide.
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: Jackson's eigth studio album was a slickly produced affair, not only winning a 1992 Grammy for Best Engineered Non-Classical Album, but it was also supported by lavish music videos featuring child actor Macaulay Culkin, basketball star Michael Jordan, comedian and actor Eddie Murphy and model Naomi Campbell.
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: almost five years after Thriller, the album was launched with an 18 minute long short film of the lead single, Bad, written by Richard Price, directed by Martin Scorsese and featured an early screen performance by Wesley Snipes.
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: this double album from 1995 contained a selection of Jackson's previous hits on one disc together with new material, some of which clearly referenced the media frenzy and legal scandals surrounding the artist.
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: released in August 1979, Off the Wall was Jackson's fifth studio album and a conscious move away from his Motown work. Collaborating with Quincy Jones and Paul McCartney, amongst others, and writing a number of the tracks himself, including the hit single Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough, the album was a major breakthrough for Jackson.
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: Jackson's tenth and last studio album, which enjoyed a lacklustre critical reception, still managed to sell more than 10 million copies worlwide and reached pole position in the US Billboard 200 and UK album charts.
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