Analyzing Thriller's Music Career

Thriller as an album and its singles proved Jackson was a pioneer on the dance floor, in the studio, and for black artists. It founded the importance of choreography, showing the importance of having the "total package" as a music artist. The songs all aided in Thriller’s immeasurable success by contributing innovative lyrics, choreography, and music videos. Thriller currently remains the best-selling album of all time, selling between 75 and 110 million copies worldwide.

In Jacksons later years he continued to dominate charts and be a figurehead in culture. In the years after the release of Thriller he released 4 more albums all leading to achieving considerable success in their own right. Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory (1995) and Invincible

Even before Jackson's solo career, with the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons, tours grossed over a million dollars and spread across the whole of the USA. Yet after touring with his brothers Jackson began his first solo world tour on September 12, 1987, in Tokyo, Japan. Attracting over 4 million people, including royalty, the Bad tour proved to be successful, becoming the most-highly attended and highest-earning tour of all time. The follow-up concert series—the Dangerous World Tour of 1992–1993—was also attended by millions. In 1996, Jackson returned with the HIStory World Tour, an 82 run of concerts that concluded the following year. The tour was attended by more than 4.5 million fans. The statistics alone show the triumph of Jackson's tours, another indication of his

Attempts at resuscitating Jackson were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead. Jackson's death triggered a global outpouring of grief.[299], which showed the immense effect he had on people over the course of his life. The commercial renaissance after his death can be witnessed in almost everything-the physical and online retail outlets, the Billboard charts, radios, TV shows, internet and the like. As the digital music listeners fell back to CDs, over 422,000 copies of his albums were sold in the second week after his death, 40 times higher than the first one (Deprez, 2009). As per online, he notes, the shares of Apple, Amazon and eBay rose more than 2%, 1.3% and 0.64% respectively and expected to be long lasting. According to Silvio Pietroluongo , the Billboard director of charts, 'the level of dominance by Michael Jackson on the top pop catalogue albums chart is unlike anything one has ever seen on any Billboard chart, regardless if it occurred pre or post death' (Smith, 2009). As Barker (2009) puts it, his commemorative products and memorabilia are like the stimulus package 3 in the midst of global recession. In the contemporary capitalistic world, death of a few popular celebrities has always transformed into brilliant business opportunities (Porter, 2009). However, in the case of Michael Jackson, the opportunities in generating sale in death as in life