CBS Records was well aware that there were no black records at all in the pop Top 20 the week they sent the debut single from “Thriller” to radio in October of 1982. Faced with the very real ...

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It’s probably a safe bet; Jackson is the best-selling solo artist of all time, with the best-selling album (“Thriller)” of all time to his credit. In “MJ: The Musical,” Michael Jackson ...

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris Jackson's nude dress from Fashion Week drew criticism, but she argued that too much importance is placed on the human body. Paris Jackson's sheer nude dress ...

Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley created this track for the 1991 album Dangerous. However, it did not appear on that record and was minimally altered before commercial release six years later. It is ...

Colin Jost and Michael Che had a lot of news to dig into from the week, but nothing elicited a greater reaction from the audience than the latter’s dig at Will Smith‘s first album in two decades.

A man who has accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing him when he was ten years old has spoken about processing the 'pain' of the alleged events after he had his own children. James Safechuck ...