Michael Jackson Thriller Fun Facts:

1. Michael almost canceled the release of the album around the time it was supposed to be released.
   
2. Michael begged on his knees (literally) for ‘The Lady In My Life’ to be on the album, Quincy was refusing to put it on.
3. Michael wanted that album (specifically) to be the biggest selling album of all time.
4. Started making short films for the album because he felt bad kids had to watch boring music videos without actual storylines.
5. It only has 3 music videos.
6. He thought it was unbelievable that it was still the biggest selling album in 2008.
7. Stayed up until 3 AM most nights to perfect it.
8. ‘Wanna Be Starting Something’ was originally written for ‘Off The Wall’.
9. He paid the full price of the ‘Beat It’ and ‘Thriller’ music videos to be made, so he had 100% rights to the music videos.
10. The original name of the album was ‘Starlight’.