Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
"Billie Jean" is American song released on 03 October 2009 in the official channel of the record label - "michaeljacksonVEVO". Discover exclusive information about "Billie Jean". Explore Billie Jean lyrics, translations, and song facts. Earnings and Net Worth accumulated by sponsorships and other sources according to information found in the internet. How many times the American song appeared in music charts compiled by Popnable? "Billie Jean " is well-known music video that took placements in popular top charts, such as Top 100 USA Music Chart , Top 40 American Songs Chart, and more.
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"Billie Jean" Facts
"Billie Jean" has reached
1.8B total views,
12.3M likes,
and 0 dislikes on YouTube.
The song has been submitted on
03/10/2009
and spent 232 weeks on the charts.
The original name of the music video "Billie Jean" is "MICHAEL JACKSON - BILLIE JEAN (OFFICIAL VIDEO)".
"Billie Jean" has been published on Youtube at 03/10/2009 07:44:09
"Billie Jean" Lyrics, Composers, Record Label
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""Billie Jean"" was the first short film made for 'Thriller,' the biggest-selling album of all
;The short film for this
;1 single, directed by Steve Barron, made history as the first video by a black artist to receive heavy rotation on MTV, and was later ranked by the network as one of the 100 greatest music videos of all time.
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Written & Composed by Michael Jackson
Produced by Quincy Jones for Quincy Jones Productions
Co-Produced by Michael Jackson for MJJ Productions, Inc.
From the album Thriller, released November 30, 1982
Released as a single January 2, 1983
THE SHORT FILM
Director: Steve Barron
Primary Production Location: Los Angeles, California
Michael Jackson's short film for ""Billie Jean"" was the first of three short films produced for recordings from Thriller, which continues its reign as the biggest selling album of all time with worldwide sales in excess of 105 million as of June 1, 2016 and in December, 2015 became the first ever album to be awarded triple diamond status by the RIAA for US sales
;The ""Billie Jean"" single reached
;1 in 10 countries in the spring of 1983, including seven consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 - becoming the second-highest selling single in America that same year.
""Billie Jean"" was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on April 4, 1983, and Platinum on February 4,
;The song won two Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance - Male, as well as an American Music Award for Favorite Single - Pop/Rock and was also named the Single of the Year on The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll in 1983.
The short film featured a paparazzo attempting to photograph Jackson as he danced through an urban
;A specially created set featured steps and sidewalk tiles that lit up underneath Michael's
;It is here that fans first saw some of Michael's best-known dance moves, such as spinning and landing on his
;Many of Michael's steps and mannerisms in the video would become forever associated with The King of Pop.
""[W]hen the chorus
;sprung into this dance that was unlike anything I'd ever seen,"" director Steve Barron recounted of Jackson's choreography in the
;""It was just extraordinary,
;He pulled it all together and turned it into what we
;camera literally steamed up, the eyepiece steamed up, because of my heat from what I was seeing."" Barron also recalled the crew breaking into spontaneous applause after Michael finished dancing.
The ""Billie Jean"" short film made history as the first video by a black artist to be played in heavy rotation on MTV, then in its second
;In 1992, the short film was inducted into the Music Video Producers Hall of
;MTV ranked ""Billie Jean"" as the 35th greatest music video of all time in 1999, one of three entries of Jackson's on the chart alongside ""Thriller"" and ""Beat It.""
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