Los Angeles, September 08: In 1982, the year in which Michael Jackson gave ‘Some One in the Dark’ to “E.T.- The Extra Terrestrial”, he bounced back with one of his greatest hit till date – ‘Thriller’ which als became the most commercially hit album of all time.
MJ’s lawyer John Branca briefed that he was the highest paid music celebrity in reference to royalty which is 2 dollars for every sold album.
Later in 1983, a documentary was produced by Jacko and John Landis- “The Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller” which was sponsored by MTV and sold over 350,000 copies worldwide within few weeks.
Moreover, in May, 1984 dolls of the legendary pop star gave a knock to the market which were sold for 12 dollars
Biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli writes that, “Thriller stopped selling like a leisure item — like a magazine, a toy, tickets to a hit movie — and started selling like a household staple.”
—Agencies