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The King of Pop, Michael Jackson dropped ‘Bad’ 37 years ago today!!

Michael Jackson made billboard history with ‘Bad’ 📈

Today in 1987, @michaeljackson released his seventh studio album, ‘Bad’ 🕺🏾💿

The project made history as the first album to spawn five consecutive no. 1 singles on the billboard hot 100 📈

▪️ “i just can’t stop loving you”
▪️ “bad”
▪️ “the way you make me feel”
▪️ “man in the mirror”
▪️ “dirty diana”

‘Bad’ went on to sell estimated 35–45 million copies worldwide!

•  Jackson wrote nine of the album’s eleven tracks and co-produced every song, proving his immense capability as a songwriter and producer following his work on Thriller. 
• Perception vs. Reality: Despite selling tens of millions of copies, some contemporary media framed it as a “disappointment” simply because it did not match the astronomical, unprecedented 70+ million sales of Thriller. History views it as one of the defining pop masterworks of the 1980s

Michael Jackson began work on what would become the Bad album in 1985. Three years had lapsed since the release of Thriller, and fans were waiting anxiously for the sequel. Following up the most successful record in the history of the music industry, however, was not an enviable task.
 
The Bad album started out its life as, Smooth Criminal, after the title of its tenth track. The song traces its history back to “Chicago 1945,” a song Michael wrote in 1985 and recorded 1986. Elements of “Chicago 1945” made their way on to a subsequent track titled “Al Capone.” As Greg Phillinganes remembers: “By the time we were working on Bad, Mike’s ideas became stronger and clearer. Songs like ‘Al Capone,’ titles like that, even as working titles, show that Mike had a tremendous cinematic approach to the making of his music.” Eventually, the song was rewritten as “Smooth Criminal” and restructured into its final form.