Sony Music and therefore the Estate of Michael Jackson today announced that it will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
It is the biggest selling album
of all time, with the November 18 release of Jackson Thriller 40, a double CD set
comprised of Michael’s original masterpiece Thriller and an exciting second
disc filled with surprises for fans
including never-released tracks which were slogged on by Michael for the
Thriller album. To date, the album has amassed in more
than 100 million in sales worldwide.
In the US, Walmart will have an exclusive version of the
first Thriller album with an alternate 40th anniversary
cover, while Target will have an exclusive version of the
first album with a commemorative Thriller 40 vinyl slip
mat. Both of those will also be available
outside the US from various retailers.
Mastered from the first analog master tapes,
Mobile Fidelity also will make
available the original Thriller album as a One-Step 180g 33RPM LP, pressed at
RTI and strictly limited to 40,000 numbered copies also as a hybrid SACD. (An UltraDisc
One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP set of Thriller are
going to be released at a future date.)
Several activations are planned
between now and therefore the end of the
year to honor Michael’s epic creation which won a record setting 8 Grammys,
smashed musical barriers and
altered the frontiers of pop music and videos forever.
Michael Jackson’s Thriller has spent quite 500
weeks on the Billboard album chart and has sold over 100 million albums since
its release on November 30, 1982. The primary such
activation is the first drop of new merchandise featuring the special Thriller
40 logo which is now available exclusively through the MichaelJackson.com web store.
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