Chart Performance: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson has an impressive 31 top 10 hits in the US.  He's one of the few artists who has a top 10 hit for the last five decades - starting from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00's, and 10's!  He also has 15 number one songs!

Below is the list of all his US top 10 hits!

1971 - Got to Be There (#4)
1972 - Rockin' Robin (#2)
1972 - Ben (#1)
1979 - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (#1)
1979 - Rock With You (#1)
1979 - Off the Wall (#10)
1982 - The Girl is Mine (with Paul McCartney) (#2)
1982 - Muscles (with Diana Ross) (#10)
1983 - Say Say Say (with Paul McCartney) (#1)
1983 - Billie Jean (#1)
1983 - Beat It (#1)
1983 - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (#5)
1984 - Somebody's Watching Me (with Rockwell and Jermaine Jackson) (#2)
1984 - Human Nature (#7)
1984 - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Things) (#10)
1984 - Thriller (#4)
1985 - We Are the World (with USA For Africa) (#1)
1987 - I Just Can't Stop Loving You (with Siedah Garrett) (#1)
1987 - Bad (#1)
1987 - The Way You Make Me Feel (#1)
1988 - Man in the Mirror (#1)
1988 - Dirty Diana (#1)
1988 - Smooth Criminal (#7)
1991 - Black or White (#1)
1992 - Remember the Time (#3)
1992 - In the Closet (#6)
1993 - Will You Be There (#7)
1995 - Scream (with Janet Jackson) / Childhood (#1)
1995 - You Are Not Alone (#1)
2001 - You Rock My World (#10)
2014 - Love Never Felt So Good (with Justin Timberlake) (#9)

Michael Jackson's lucky thirteenth UK Top 10 album, Michael, a collection of unreleased singles, slips from #4 to #5 this week.  Below are his other Top 10 albums in the UK -

1979 - Off The Wall (#3)
1982 - Thriller (#1)
1983 - 18 Greatest Hits (#1)
1984 - Farewell My Summer Love (#9)
1987 - Bad (#1)
1991 - Dangerous (#1)
1995 - HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book 1 (#1)
1997 - The Best of Michael Jackson & the Jackson 5ive (#5)
2003 - Number Ones (#1)
2005 - The Essential Michael Jackson (#1)
2007 - Les 50 Plus Belles Chansons (#4)
2008 - King Of Pop (#3)
2010 - Michael (#4)
2001 - Invincible (#1)

In the US, the same album debuts at #3.  That was his ninth Top 10 album in the US.  Below are his Top 10 albums in the US -

1972 - Ben (#5)
1979 - Off The Wall (#3)
1982 - Thriller (#1)
1987 - Bad (#1)
1991 - Dangerous (#1)
1995 - HIStory:  Past, Present and Future (#1)
2001 - Invincible (#1)
2009 - Michael Jackson's This Is It (#1)
2010 - Michael (#3)

Also, he gets his first posthumous Top 10 hit in the UK singles chart this week, as Hold My Hand, his collaboration with Akon, enters at #10.  This is also his forty-second Top 10 hit in the UK!  This brings his chart span in the UK Top 10 singles chart to forty years from his first Top 10 hit in 1971 to this year.  That is an impressive statistic!  Here are the Top 10 songs of Michael Jackson in the UK -

1971 - Got To Be There (#5)
1972 - Rockin' Robin (#3)
1972 - Ain't No Sunshine (#8)
1972 - Ben (#7)
1979 - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (#3)
1979 - Rock With You (#7)
1979 - Off the Wall (#7)
1980 - She's Out of My Life (#3)
1981 - One Day in Your Life (#1)
1982 - The Girl Is Mind (#8)
1982 - Billie Jean (#1)
1983 - Beat It (#3)
1983 - Say, Say, Say (with Paul McCartney) (#2)
1984 - Thriller (#10)
1984 - Farewell My Summer Love (#7)
1984 - Somebody's Watching Me (with Rockwell and Jermaine Jackson) (#6)
1985 - We Are the World (with USA For Africa) (#1)
1987 - I Just Can't Stop Loving You (#1)
1987 - Bad (#3)
1987 - The Way You Make Me Feel (#3)
1988 - Man In the Mirror (#3)
1988 - I Want You Back (with the Jackson 5) (#8)
1988 - Dirty Diana (#4)
1988 - Smooth Criminal (#8)
1989 - Leave Me Alone (#2)
1990 - Do the Bartman (with the Simpsons) (#1)
1991 - Black or White (#1)
1992 - Remember the Time (#3)
1992 - In the Closet (#8)
1992 - Who Is It (#10)
1992 - Heal the World (#2)
1993 - Give In to Me (#2)
1993 - Will You Be There (#9)
1995 - Scream (with Janet Jackson) (#3)
1995 - You Are Not Alone (#1)
1995 - The Earth Song (#1)
1996 - Why (with 3T) (#2)
1996 - I Need You (with 3T) (#3)
1997 - HIStory/Ghosts (#5)
2001 - You Rock My World (#2)
2003 - One More Chance (#5)
2010 - Hold My Hand (with Akon) (#10)