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This week in 1983, the Michael Jackson single “Billie Jean” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #57 (January 28)
The song from his mega-successful LP “Thriller” was written and composed by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones and co-produced by Jackson.
Michael Jackson said the lyrics were based on groupies' claims about his older brothers when he toured with them as the Jackson 5:
“There never was a real Billie Jean.
The girl in the song is a composite of people my brothers have been plagued with over the years. I could never understand how these girls could say they were carrying someone's child when it wasn't true.” - Michael Jackson, Moonwalk (1988)
According to Quincy Jones, Jackson "stole" notes from the Jon and Vangelis song "State of Independence"; Jones had produced Donna Summer's cover of the song, and Jackson had sung backing vocals.
According to Jon Anderson, "They took the riff and made it funky for 'Billie Jean' ... So that's kinda cool, that cross-pollination in music."
According to Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, Jackson told him he had taken the "Billie Jean" groove from their 1981 track "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)".
Hall told him "Oh Michael, what do I care? You did it very differently."
Michael Jackson said he felt "Billie Jean" would be a success as he was writing it:
“A musician knows hit material.
Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good.
That's how I felt about 'Billie Jean'. I knew it was going to be big when I was writing it."
There was some disagreement though, between Jones and Jackson over whether to include the song on the “Thriller” LP, but according to Jones, he conceded when Jackson said it made him want to dance:
“And when Michael Jackson tells you, 'That's what makes me want to dance', well, the rest of us just have to shut up!” he said.
Jones also wanted to change the title to "Not My Lover", as he believed that people would think the song referred to the tennis player Billie Jean King, but Jackson refused.
The song with the mesmerizing creeping bassline went all the way to #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium, #2 in New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden and Germany, #4 in the Netherlands, and #5 in Norway.
It’s Jackson's best-selling solo single, and is one of the best-selling digital singles of all-time.
Billie Jean" was named the greatest dance record of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners. In a list compiled by Rolling Stone and MTV in 2000, the song was ranked as the sixth greatest pop song since 1963.
Rolling Stone placed the song at #44 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2021.
“Billie Jean" was voted #2 in The Nation's Favourite Number 1 Single, a British TV program airing on ITV on 21 July 2012.
In a similar poll in 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's second favorite 1980s #1.
At the 1984 Grammy Awards the song earned Jackson two of a record eight awards; Best R&B Song and Best R&B Male Vocal Performance.
It won the Billboard Music Award for favorite dance/disco 12" LP, and the magazine's 1980's poll named "Billie Jean" as the "Black Single of the Decade".
The American Music Awards recognized the track as the Favorite Pop/Rock Single, while Cash Box honored the song with the awards for Top Pop Single and Top Black Single.
MTV initially refused to air the video for "Billie Jean", as the network's executives felt black music did not fit into "rock"-centered network.
Walter Yetnikoff, the president of Jackson's record company CBS Records, was enraged by their refusal to play the video in spite of Jackson's success as a musical artist.
Yetnikoff threatened to go public with MTV's stance on racial discrimination:
“I said to MTV, 'I'm pulling everything we have off the air, all our product.
I'm not going to give you any more videos.
And I'm going to go public and f***ing tell them about the fact you don't want to play music by a black guy.'"
MTV relented and the "Billie Jean" music video debuted on March 10, 1983.
After the video was aired in heavy rotation, Thriller went on to sell an additional 10 million copies.
It was one of the first videos by a black artist to be aired regularly by the channel.
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