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12th September 1987 The Bad album enters straight in at no. 1 on the UK album chart. It will stay on the UK album chart for 125 weeks and subsequently return on and off over the next two decades. Bad sells over 350,000 copies in the UK in the first 5 days of release out selling the second highest album by a ratio of 10-1. Bad’s sales are higher than the rest of the Top 40 put together. 40,000 copies are sold on CD where the bonus track Leave Me Alone is acknowledged as a popular factor. Michael’s first ever-solo tour begins in Japan at the Korakuen Stadium, Yokohama. Only I Just Can’t Stop Loving You and Bad make the play list, as Michael is still rehearing the new songs. 19th September 1987 I Just Can’t Stop Loving You tops the American Hot 100 & R&B Billboard singles chart staying there for 1 week on both. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You will spend 14 weeks on the American Hot 100 Billboard singles chart While on the R&B chart it will stay for 11 weeks. That same week, Michael’s follow up single Bad, the title track from his new album enters the American Hot 10 Billboard Singles chart at no. 40. 21st September 1987 The title track from Bad is released in the UK. 26th September 1987 Michael Jackson Bad album tops both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B album charts holding for 1 week on each. Just like his previous two Epic solo albums the first single release goes to No. 1 on the R&B chart. Bad enters the UK Singles chart at no.5. A Bad Special Cassette Gift Pack is released with a Combined Pen & Highlighter, 1989 Calendar and Note Pad. BAD UNRELEASED MATERIAL (INCLUDING THOSE NOW ISSUED) Quincy Jones as been quoted as saying that Michael had around 66 songs prepared for Bad in some sort of shape or form. This was then whittled down to about 33 songs. Here we try and pierce together what the remainder of those songs may have been and include others that have now been issued. UNRELEASED BAD SONG: Al Capone Buffalo Bill (Originally intended for The Jacksons Victory Album) Bumper Snippet – 2 versions) Chicago 1945 (re-done as Smooth Criminal) Crack Kills (With Run DMC) Groove Of Midnight Hot Fever – (Became Way You Make Me Feel) Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous – (French version of I Just Can’t Stop Loving You) Mystery Price Of Fame, The Pyramid Song (Became Liberian Girl) Tom Boy What You Do To Me Tracks from Bad issued on other compilations. Cheater Fly Away Streetwalker Scared Of The Moon Someone Put Your Hand Out We Are Here To Change The World |
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Reply #4 posted 08/31/07 6:33pm
bboy87 | 1st March 1988 Michael attends a Pepsi press conference where they will preview a new set of innovative commercials that will pierce together as one making a story. The full commercial will last 4 and a half minutes but will also be shown individual titled: The Magic Begins, The Chase, The Chopper, The Musuem and the Finale. Lyrics for this commercial, based on his Bad hit, where written in 1986 and registered in March 1987. Michael disappointed the waiting pres by only uttering a 15 word speech. |
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