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 ...
Part of why Michael Jackson‘s “Man in the ... It was No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for six weeks. Aside from Thriller, none of Jackson’s albums were No. 1 on the charts for a longer period ...