There are music legends, and then there is the artist who is still breaking records long after he is gone.

More than forty years after its release, Michael Jackson’s Thriller is not just a classic album. It is a chart machine that refuses to slow down.

This year, the late pop icon became the first artist ever to reach the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 in six different decades. Seventies, eighties, nineties, 2000s, 2010s, and now the 2020s all have his name written across them. All of it tied back to one song that refuses to age. Thriller.

During Halloween 2025, that familiar beat returned to the charts again, jumping into the top 10 with millions of streams and radio plays. A song released in 1982 was once again standing next to brand new hits from today.

Remember, this is from the same album that swept the Grammys, turned music videos into events, and sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Thriller did not just change Michael Jackson’s life.

How many artists can say they owned every era they touched?

Michael Jackson’s Thriller: The Greatest Album of All Time

The official 4K video is not a normal performance clip. It is a 14 minute mini movie, directed by horror filmmaker John Landis, where Michael turns into a monster, then leads the most famous “zombie dance” in pop culture. The red jacket, the fog, the graveyard, the final twist at the end. This is the visual experience that keeps fans returning every Halloween and pulls new listeners into the song all over again.

Michael Jackson – Thriller (Official 4K Video)

Thriller may be the album that changed everything, but Beat It is the moment you feel the risk he took. This is the record that carried home Grammy gold for Record of the Year and Best Rock Vocal Performance, powered by Eddie Van Halen’s blazing guitar solo and a message that stood against empty tough talk. The 4K video captures Michael walking into a real street world, turning a potential fight into a dance.