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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By Andrew Unterberger Listen to the 67 Grammy winners for album of the year, and they’ll tell the story of the last six-and-two-thirds decades of popular music. Except, well, not really ...

Nearly three years after its release, her critically acclaimed sophomore album, SOS, has officially surpassed Michael Jackson’s Thriller as the longest-running Top 10 album by a Black artist in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sources are telling us that Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson ... When you think of Jackson’s life — from Gary, IN, to the Jackson 5, Off the Wall to Thriller, and to his undoing ...