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Decades after its release, Michael Jackson’s Bad, his Thriller follow-up, rises to a new peak on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart. BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, BRUNEI – JULY, 1996: American singer, songwriter, and dancer Michael Jackson (1958-2009) performs on stage during a concert for the 50th birthday of Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei circa July, 1996 at the Jerudong Park Amphitheatre in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. (Photo by Bill Nation\/Sygma via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Some legacy musical acts perform well on the Billboard charts thanks to continued plays on streaming sites like Spotify. There are many albums and songs that remain on the lists week after week due to millions \u2013 sometimes tens of millions \u2013 of streams that count toward Billboard’s rankings. <\/p>\n

Michael Jackson<\/a> certainly brings in a large number of plays every day on streaming sites, but he is the rare artist whose music has been entertaining the masses for decades who still manages to sell well. Multiple collections by the King of Pop appear on Billboard’s Top Album Sales tally at the moment, and one even manages to climb to a new peak position nearly 40 years after its initial release.<\/p>\n

Michael Jackson\u2019s Bad Hits a New Sales Chart Peak<\/p>\n

Jackson’s Bad<\/a> leaps from No. 21 to No. 13 on the current edition of the Top Album Sales chart<\/a>. The Billboard list looks only at purchases of full-lengths and EPs, with digital copies, CD, cassette and vinyl all fueling a title\u2019s rise, fall or debut. <\/p>\n

Bad reaches its new all-time high on the Top Album Sales rundown almost 15 years after it first landed on the roster. Bad debuted on the Top Album Sales register in December 2009, and since then, it has spent 55 weeks as a bestseller in America.<\/p>\n

Michael Jackson Has Charted 10 Top 10s<\/p>\n

Jackson has racked up 23 appearances on the Top Album Sales chart. 10 of those projects have found their way into the top 10, and four \u2013 Dangerous, Invincible, Michael Jackson’s This Is It and HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I \u2013 have all spent at least one frame ruling. <\/p>\n

Bad is one of two sets by Jackson that have missed out on breaking into the top 10 by only a few spaces. Scream<\/a> peaked at No. 11, its all-time high, in October 2017. Every other release by the superstar has yet to rise into the top 20. <\/p>\n

Here are all of Michael Jackson’s top 10s on the Top Album Sales chart.<\/p>\n