Thirty-nine years ago today, Epic Records shipped an album that would spend six weeks at number one and, in the process, quietly rewrite what a single release could do to the Billboard Hot 100. Bad ...

Michael Jackson’s Bad reaches a four-year chart milestone as six of his albums appear on U.K. rankings, including three top 40 hits.

One of pop music’s biggest releases arrived 39 years ago today. Michael Jackson released his seventh studio album, Bad, on Aug. 31, 1987. The record followed Thriller, which had become the ...