All 147 Michael Jackson Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best

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All 147 Michael Jackson Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best By BILL WYMAN

https://www.vulture.com/2017/12/michael-jacksons-best-songs-ranked.html

BEST TO WORST

1. “Billie Jean,” Thriller (1982)
2. “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” Thriller (1982)
3. “Got to Be There,” Got to Be There (1972)
4. “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” Off the Wall (1979)
5. “Human Nature,” Thriller (1982)
6. “Ben,” Ben (1972)
7. “Scream,” History (1995)
8. “Girl Don’t Take Your Love From Me,” Got to Be There (1972)
9. “Smooth Criminal,” Bad (1987)
10. “Remember the Time,” Dangerous (1991)
11. “Off the Wall,” Off the Wall (1979)
12. “Leave Me Alone,” Bad (1987)
13. “Black or White,” Dangerous (1991)
14. “People Make the World Go ‘Round,” Ben (1972)
15. “Man in the Mirror,” Bad (1987)
16. “Rock With You,” Off the Wall (1979)
17. “Beat It,” Thriller (1982)
18. “She’s Out of My Life,” Off the Wall (1979)
19. “Ain’t No Sunshine,” Got to Be There (1972)
20. “I Can’t Help It,” Off the Wall (1979)
21. “Blood on the Dance Floor,” Blood on the Dance Floor (1997)
22. “Dirty Diana,” Bad (1987)
23. “Thriller,” Thriller (1982)
24. “Get on the Floor,” Off the Wall (1979)
25. “Stranger in Moscow,” History (1995)
26. “She Drives Me Wild,” Dangerous (1991)
27. “Morning Glow,” Music & Me (1973)
28. “Dangerous,” Dangerous (1991)
29. “Love Never Felt So Good,” Xscape (2014)
30. “We’ve Got Forever,” Forever, Michael (1975)
31. “Jam,” Dangerous (1991)
32. “In Our Small Way,” Got to Be There (1972)
33. “Is It Scary,” Blood on the Dance Floor (1997)
34. “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone,” Got to Be There (1972)
35. “Chicago,” Xscape (2014)
36. “Don’t Be Messin’ Round,” Bad outtake (1986)
37. “Behind the Mask,” Michael (2010)
38. “A Place With No Name,” Xscape (2014)
39. “2000 Watts,” Invincible (2001)
40. “Invincible,” Invincible (2001)
41. “Hold My Hand,” Michael (2010)
42. “Much Too Soon,” Michael (2010)
43. “The Way You Make Me Feel,” Bad (1987)
44. “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing),” Thriller (1982)
45. “Another Part of Me,” Bad (1987)
46. “Ghosts,” Blood on the Dance Floor (1997)
47. “Carousel,” Thriller outtake (1982)
48. “Why You Wanna Trip on Me,” Dangerous (1991)
49. “You Are My Life,” Invincible (2001)
50. “Workin’ Day and Night,” Off the Wall (1979)
51. “You Rock My World,” Invincible (2001)
52. “Doggin’ Around,” Music & Me (1973)
53. “This Is It,” This Is It (2009)
54. “I Wanna Be Where You Are,” Got to Be There (1972)
55. “Unbreakable,” Invincible (2001)
56. “Smile,” History (1995)
57. “Girlfriend,” Off the Wall (1979)
58. “You Can Cry on My Shoulder,” Ben (1971)
59. “Loving You,” Xscape (2014)
60. “Too Young,” Music & Me (1973)
61. “2 Bad,” History (1995)
62. “Tabloid Junkie,” History (1995)
63. “You Are Not Alone,” History (1995)
64. “Slave to the Rhythm,” Xscape (2014)
65. “Come Together,” History (1995)
66. “Money,” History (1995)
67. “This Time Around,” History (1995)
68. “Bad,” Bad (1987)
69. “Xscape,” Xscape (2014)
70. “Threatened,” Invincible (2001)
71. “Rockin’ Robin,” Got to Be There (1972)
72. “The Girl Is Mine,” Thriller (1982)
73. “They Don’t Care About Us,” History (1995)
74. “Break of Dawn,” Invincible (2001)
75. “Heaven Can Wait,” Invincible (2001)
76. “(I Can’t Make It) Another Day,” Michael (2010)
77. “Someone in the Dark,” The E.T. Storybook (1982)
78. “For All Time,” Thriller outtake (1982)
79. “Heartbreaker,” Invincible (2001)
80. “Give In to Me,” Dangerous (1991)
81. “All the Things You Are,” Music & Me (1973)
82. “Can’t Let Her Get Away,” Dangerous (1991)
83. “Whatever Happens,” Invincible (2001)
84. “In the Closet,” Dangerous (1991)
85. “Who Is It,” Dangerous (1991)
86. “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” Bad (1987)
87. “Just Good Friends,” Bad (1987)
88. “Liberian Girl,” Bad (1987)
89. “I’m So Blue,” Bad outtake (1987)
90. “Superfly Sister,” Blood on the Dance Floor (1997)
91. “Take Me Back,” Forever, Michael (1975)
92. “The Lady in My Life,” Thriller (1982)
93. “Baby Be Mine,” Thriller (1982)
94. “It’s the Falling in Love,” Off the Wall (1979)
95. “Happy (Love Theme From Lady Sings the Blues),” Music & Me (1973)
96. “Will You Be There,” Dangerous (1991)
97. “Gone Too Soon,” Dangerous (1991)
98. “Burn This Disco Out,” Off the Wall (1979)
99. “Privacy,” Invincible (2001)
100. “Keep the Faith,” Dangerous (1991)
101. “The Lost Children,” Invincible (2001)
102. “Breaking News,” Michael (2010)
103. “History,” History (1995)
104. “Don’t Walk Away,” Invincible (2001)
105. “I’ll Come Home to You,” Forever, Michael (1975)
106. “Dear Michael,” Forever, Michael (1975)
107. “Just a Little Bit of You,” Forever, Michael (1975)
108. “Blue Gangsta,” Xscape (2014)
109. “Music and Me,” Music & Me (1973)
110. “Johnny Raven,” Music & Me (1973)
111. “Dapper-Dan,” Forever, Michael (1975)
112. “Up Again,” Music & Me (1973)
113. “Butterflies,” Invincible (2001)
114. “Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day,” Ben (1972)
115. “Little Susie,” History (1995)
116. “In Our Small Way,” Ben (1972)
117. “What Goes Around Comes Around,” Ben (1972)
118. “My Girl,” Ben (1972)
119. “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” Ben (1971)
120. “Earth Song,” History (1995)
121. “Cinderella Stay Awhile,” Forever, Michael (1975)
122. “We’ve Got a Good Thing Going,” Ben (1972)
123. “One Day in Your Life,” Forever, Michael (1975)
124. “D.S.,” History (1995)
125. “Euphoria,” Music & Me (1973)
126. “Cry,” Invincible (2001)
127. “Do You Know Where Your Children Are,” Xscape (2014)
128. “(I Like) the Way You Love Me,” Michael (2010)
129. “You Are There,” Forever, Michael (1975)
130. “Speed Demon,” Bad (1987)
131. “With a Child’s Heart,” Music & Me (1973)
132. “Greatest Show on Earth,” Ben (1972)
133. “Keep Your Head Up,” Michael (2010)
134. “You’ve Got a Friend,” Got to Be There (1972)
135. “Maria (You Were the Only One),” Got to Be There (1972)
136. “Hollywood Tonight,” Michael (2010)
137. “We’re Almost There,” Forever, Michael (1975)
138. “Morphine,” Blood on the Dance Floor (1997)
139. “Monster,” Michael (2010)
140. “Price of Fame,” Bad outtake (1987)
141. “Speechless,” Invincible (2001)
142. “Wings of My Love,” Got to Be There (1972)
143. “Childhood,” History (1995)
144. “Fly Away,” Bad 25 (1987)
145. “Best of Joy,” Michael (2010)
146. “Streetwalker,” Bad outtake (1983)
147. “Heal the World,” Dangerous (1991)
 
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Wow! What a mess!
The fact that the author ranks ‘Earth Song’ at Nr. 117 is a crime. I mean, how can a song like ‘This Time Around’ rank at Nr.67 and ‘Earth Song’ at Nr.117?
Overall I hate it when critics rank his songs or albums because they tend be very unfair.
They always call ‘Off The Wall’ and ‘Thriller’ his best albums and never talk about anything that came after ‘Dangerous’ and that really annoys me.
Also, how unprofessional is this critic? He ranks ‘Black Or White’ at Nr.13 which is fine but then has this to say about the track:

“Jackson at his most Trumpian. By the time he was recording Dangerous, his production partners saw him bleaching his skin. His black features had been erased to the point where he looked white, and then something else. His masculinity was disappearing too.“

Are you reviewing his music or spreading tabloid rumors, my friend?
 
:wtf2

Seriously, don’t even click that link. It doesn’t deserve attention.
 
By the way, when you start a new thread in this subforum, it will be automatically posted to Twitter. Not sure if that’s the kind of post we want to represent this community:

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Tragic list.

Monster at #139, Keep Your Head Up at #133 & Breaking News at #102. How can these three fake songs be ahead of genuine Michael Jackson songs? They should be the bottom three.

How is Heal The World the worst Michael Jackson song?

How is Earth Song not in the top 30 at least?

Vulture are a bunch of clowns.
 
ScreenOrigami;4277758 said:
I stopped reading after “Childhood”. :gross:

These so called critics have ALWAYS critiqued Michael persona instead of his music. They don’t do any other artist that way. These jealous pieces of $#@& were never fair to him. I don’t consider them critics of music, just tabloid trash. Their reviews are biased and don’t mean crap.
 
somewhereinthedark;4277760 said:
These so called critics have ALWAYS critiqued Michael persona instead of his music. They don’t do any other artist that way. These jealous pieces of $#@& were never fair to him. I don’t consider them critics of music, just tabloid trash. Their reviews are biased and don’t mean crap.

This.

Critics who review Michael Jackson’ music are a bunch of morons. They shouldn’t even be called critics. Their job is to review the music, the songs, the albums. They should review a song by looking at how strong/weak the lyrics, the melody, instrumentation, vocal delivery are.

Instead, when reviewing MJ’s music, they review his personal life by giving their own opinions on the lies perpetuated by the media.

That’s why I don’t take critics seriously when it comes to Michael Jackson.
 
^ That reviewer is an idiot. Basically trashes three quarters of MJ's entire catalogue. You can tell this guy does not like him.
 
travis3000;4277764 said:
^ That reviewer is an idiot. Basically trashes three quarters of MJ's entire catalogue. You can tell this guy does not like him.

Most of these creeps are &#8220;rock&#8221; critics who arrogantly think that they are intelligent. When HIStory was released, I actually called one of these &#8220; critics&#8221; and asked him why he critiqued Michael instead of the album. Believe it or not he apologized profusely and said he was sorry. He explained that he loved &#8220;Stranger In Moscow&#8221; and thought it was brilliant. I asked him why couldn&#8217;t you just concentrate on Michael&#8217;s music and not him or his personal life. He couldn&#8217;t really give me a reason. The bottomline is that this &#8220;critic&#8221; was a different person on the phone than what is review was in the newspaper. I think a lot of these critics think they HAVE to tear down Micharl in order to appear cool to their fellow critics. What a bunch of cowards! Btw, this critic had no idea when he answered the phone that I was going to DISAGREE with his review. I guess he thought that I was one of those flunkies who couldn&#8217;t think for myself and was easily manipulated.FTR, he was actually much nicer than I thought he would be and listened to my disagreement with him.
The bottomline is why didn&#8217;t he have courage to put in his written review what he told me about Michael&#8217;s music?
 
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This critic has some inaccuracies, and some false and contradictory information in his review.

For example, about &#8216;Black Or White&#8217;, he writes:

&#8220;The rap in the middle features a black guy singing the lines, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to spend my life being a color,&#8221; which strikes me as demonstrating a pretty significant lack of understanding about the effects of racism&#8221;

But the guy who sings these rap lines is Bill Bottrell who is white, not black.

Or, what he writes about &#8216;Liberian Girl':

&#8220;He suffered from a condition called vitiligo, which gave him patches of lighter skin; that was his excuse for bleaching the rest of his skin&#8221;

That was not really an excuse here.

Michael Jackson&#8217;s lighter skin parts began from a certain time to multiply significantly on his entire body to the point where it would be medically more advisable for him to start lightening his remaining fewer and not yet affected by the vitiligo darker parts of his skin, rather than trying to darken the lighter parts of his skin (affected by vitiligo) that were more in number and also larger in size.

Or, contradictory information like this one (about &#8216;Black Or White&#8217;, again):

"Then came this song. "It don&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re black or white,&#8221; he sang. Odd - it sure seemed like it mattered to him&#8221;

What the critic writes here (&#8220;it sure seemed like it mattered to him&#8221;) contradicts him because the critic already showed that he is aware of Michael Jackson&#8217;s vitiligo disease which lightens the colour of the skin.
 
I can't take a list seriously when it includes the 3 Cascio tracks from ''Michael''
 
This list is just weird, but the comments about each song is even weirder... I didn't read all of it, only some at the top, middle and bottom, but not a single explenation made much sense or had much relevance to the music.
 
I didn't even click the link. everyone has their opinions and taste on what song they like do not like. there are some songs i do not like from Michael. now i can understand if they never even listen to the song and say it not good etc. but at the end of the day we have our own likes and dislikes. i don't think that's hating on MJ at all. you don't have to like all MJ songs. and some fans need to understand that. i'm not a fan of History and Dangerous eras. so i'm gonna get look down on because i'm not a fan of these eras? come on guys grow up. Michael didn't care what his fans like and didn't like about him as long they liked him as an human.
 
NatureCriminal7896;4279280 said:
I didn't even click the link. everyone has their opinions and taste on what song they like do not like. there are some songs i do not like from Michael. now i can understand if they never even listen to the song and say it not good etc. but at the end of the day we have our own likes and dislikes. i don't think that's hating on MJ at all. you don't have to like all MJ songs. and some fans need to understand that. i'm not a fan of History and Dangerous eras. so i'm gonna get look down on because i'm not a fan of these eras? come on guys grow up. Michael didn't care what his fans like and didn't like about him as long they liked him as an human.

Well, if you didn't even open the link then you obviously don't know what is being said in the article, so you can't say that the guy is not hating on Michael. In truth....he is and I'll give you some examples:

-He basically calls him a child molester while ''reviewing'' 'Childhood'. He also says that he ''ruined other kids' childhoods''.

-Calls him a pedophile once again while reviewing 'Do You Know Where Your Children Are'. Here is the quote:
''It’s amazing to me that his estate and someone like Timbaland were so tone-deaf as to release a song with this title given the credible child sexual-abuse allegations against Jackson.''

-Talks about the R. Kelly controversy while reviewing 'Cry':
'' Right around the time he was working on this song with Jackson, Kelly was allegedly filming himself urinating on a 13-year-old girl.''
Why did he feel the need to talk about that while reviewing a song?

-Says the emotion in 'Earth Song' is fake:
''Jackson starts choking up with an utterly false emotion in the second verse, two-and-a-half minutes in, and there are four minutes to go.''

....and I could go on but I think this is enough.

So, how is this not hating on him? Apart from all the rumours he is talking about...he also trashes pretty much all of the songs that are not in the top 30.
The guy who wrote the article is just plain ignorant in my opinion. As Michael would say:'' Ignorant Fool!''
 
dethorro;4279336 said:
Well, if you didn't even open the link then you obviously don't know what is being said in the article, so you can't say that the guy is not hating on Michael. In truth....he is and I'll give you some examples:

-He basically calls him a child molester while ''reviewing'' 'Childhood'. He also says that he ''ruined other kids' childhoods''.

-Calls him a pedophile once again while reviewing 'Do You Know Where Your Children Are'. Here is the quote:
''It&#8217;s amazing to me that his estate and someone like Timbaland were so tone-deaf as to release a song with this title given the credible child sexual-abuse allegations against Jackson.''

-Talks about the R. Kelly controversy while reviewing 'Cry':
'' Right around the time he was working on this song with Jackson, Kelly was allegedly filming himself urinating on a 13-year-old girl.''
Why did he feel the need to talk about that while reviewing a song?

-Says the emotion in 'Earth Song' is fake:
''Jackson starts choking up with an utterly false emotion in the second verse, two-and-a-half minutes in, and there are four minutes to go.''

....and I could go on but I think this is enough.

So, how is this not hating on him? Apart from all the rumours he is talking about...he also trashes pretty much all of the songs that are not in the top 30.
The guy who wrote the article is just plain ignorant in my opinion. As Michael would say:'' Ignorant Fool!''

This. This article is trashing Michael and disguises itself as some kind of song ranking. It&#8217;s disgusting. I couldn&#8217;t finish reading it, and I still don&#8217;t understand why someone would post it here without any comment, knowing that any new thread in this subforum is posted to Twitter. Is this how we want this forum represented on social media?
 
somewhereinthedark;4277772 said:
Most of these creeps are “rock” critics who arrogantly think that they are intelligent. When HIStory was released, I actually called one of these “ critics” and asked him why he critiqued Michael instead of the album. Believe it or not he apologized profusely and said he was sorry. He explained that he loved “Stranger In Moscow” and thought it was brilliant. I asked him why couldn’t you just concentrate on Michael’s music and not him or his personal life. He couldn’t really give me a reason. The bottomline is that this “critic” was a different person on the phone than what is review was in the newspaper. I think a lot of these critics think they HAVE to tear down Micharl in order to appear cool to their fellow critics. What a bunch of cowards! Btw, this critic had no idea when he answered the phone that I was going to DISAGREE with his review. I guess he thought that I was one of those flunkies who couldn’t think for myself and was easily manipulated.FTR, he was actually much nicer than I thought he would be and listened to my disagreement with him.
The bottomline is why didn’t he have courage to put in his written review what he told me about Michael’s music?

His boss probably would have fired him if he did
 
As someone who didn't click the link. oh now i get it. yeah this person pretty much hating on MJ by using his songs. it's best to ignore or report it.
 
Many of the music critics are white rocker men from the old boys club. Do you notice their reviews are all the same:

Off The Wall was genius, so amazing, then Thriller was epic and unreal then everything from Bad to Invincible is garbage. They basically rate his albums based on his popularity in the media. As MJ became more controversial, they ripped his music apart. It's a huge flaw in the system as critics should be judging the music....not the personal life. But unfortunately with Michael that's what they did.
 
Do you notice their reviews are all the same:

Off The Wall was genius, so amazing, then Thriller was epic and unreal then everything from Bad to Invincible is garbage. They basically rate his albums based on his popularity in the media. As MJ became more controversial, they ripped his music apart. It's a huge flaw in the system as critics should be judging the music....not the personal life. But unfortunately with Michael that's what they did.

You nailed it! That's exactly what they do.
There are still some critics who say that 'Bad' is one of his ''classic albums'' but most of them hate it.
But let's be honest...critics started hating on 'Bad' before it got released and before they had a chance to hear it.
It was mostly because of the immense success of 'Thriller' of course.
 
Say Say Say and One More Chance are not included on Bill Wyman's Vulture Jackson list. They should have been!!


 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_My_Summer_Love

None of the songs from Farewell My Summer Love are on Bill Wyman's list

1. "Don't Let It Get You Down"
2. "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
3. "Melodie"
4. "Touch the One You Love"
5. "Girl You're So Together"
6. "Farewell My Summer Love"
7. "Call on Me"
8. "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)"
9. "To Make My Father Proud"
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_My_Summer_Love

None of the songs from Farewell My Summer Love are on Bill Wyman's list

1. "Don't Let It Get You Down"
2. "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
3. "Melodie"
4. "Touch the One You Love"
5. "Girl You're So Together"
6. "Farewell My Summer Love"
7. "Call on Me"
8. "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)"
9. "To Make My Father Proud"

It doesn't matter, believe me. The list and the whole article is trash!
 
Not sure why fans are saying that the idiot bill wyman missed out a few songs from his trash list. He is an idiotic hater and his list shouldn't matter.
 
Possibly the worst MJ article I’ve ever read. Such trash and downright offensive.
 
Hold on &#8211; THE Bill Wyman? Of the Rolling Stones? :eek:
I didn&#8217;t pay attention to the author&#8217;s name back when this was first posted. Or is this a different Bill Wyman?
 
ScreenOrigami;4291673 said:
Hold on &#8211; THE Bill Wyman? Of the Rolling Stones? :eek:
I didn&#8217;t pay attention to the author&#8217;s name back when this was first posted. Or is this a different Bill Wyman?

No, not the same person.
 
Elton-Cetera;4291685 said:
No, not the same person.

*phew* That&#8217;s a relief. Thank you! :D

I would have a really hard time to believe that he wrote something like &#8211; that.
 
People we need to get a grip, its one list and one opinion - no critic has any more a valid opinion than us.

Of course I checked out when I noticed that The Way you make me feel is not Top 20 - but let us save our anger for other things.

Chamone!
 
People we need to get a grip, its one list and one opinion - no critic has any more a valid opinion than us.

Of course I checked out when I noticed that The Way you make me feel is not Top 20 - but let us save our anger for other things.

Chamone!

Well no, he's a dickhead.

I remember he wrote an article after he died saying he was only a self proclaimed king of pop and he was nobody's victim.

Whatever your opinion on Michael Jackson, he was the king of pop and while he was naive many times and made a rod for his own back on a few occasions, he was a victim of quite a lot of things
 
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