I'm making this thread, because for the simple fact, if people are gonna keep posting about this release, why not make one thread and save the mods a big headache?


All info, news, and updates will posted in this thread


AND PLEASE- None of the negative crap that kills alot of the MJ threads on the Org(Ya'll know what I'm talking about )

When is this coming out now?

thekidsgirl said:

February 12th

The back cover:


The official tracklisting:
Disc 1:
1.Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
2.Baby Be Mine
3.The Girl Is Mine
4.Thriller
5.Beat It
6.Billie Jean
7.Human Nature
8.P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)
9.The Lady In My Life
10.Vincent Price Voiceover
11.The Girl Is Mine 2008
12.P.Y.T 2008
13.Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008
14.Beat It 2008
15.Billie Jean 2008
16.For All Time
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'(Dance Mix)(Circuit City exlusive)
Got The Hots(Outtake from Thriller)(Japanese Bonus Track)

Disc 2-The DVD:
Billie Jean
Beat It
Thriller
Billie Jean (Motown 25th Anniversary Performance)

OMG the back cover is amazing.
I love that picture of him!

WBSS Dance remix thing?
Thats new.

Does the Deluxe Edition have the Zombie cover? Or does it come with two different covers? I want the Zombie cover Delxue Edition, but am not sure if I should order it from amazon.com because I am afraid it will send me the album with the original cover.

Does anyone know?

Another magazine cover:

Michael featured on the cover of japanese magazine BMR

roughly translated into English
Released February 9th bmr (RIVUYU Black Music);
+ Michael Jackson on the cover featured a large opening 14 P! ! (2008.2.5)



BEST HIT USA 2008 "Thriller 25th anniversary performances" from the valuable footage on the air! (2008.2.5)

Michael Jackson "Thriller 25th anniversary performances" from Billie Jean live footage on the air!
BEST HIT USA 2008
February 26 (Tuesday) at 23:00 to 23:55 BS Asahi
Feb. 28 (Thursday) 27:10 to 28:05 TV Asahi (EX)
February 29 (Friday) until midnight to 24:55 BS Asahi (Repeat)
Do not miss out! !



Released the same day [2 / 20] ★ "to ZANYU for" masterpieces ARAIVU

Michael Jackson's Thriller album, the 25th anniversary commemoration of the Week! (2008.2.5)

Michael Jackson's Thriller album, the 25th anniversary commemoration of the Week!
Precious footage on the air live!

February 20 (Wednesday) 4:00 to 5:25
Fuji Television "for ZANYU to" masterpieces in ARAIVU

Source:http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/International/Arch/ES/MichaelJackson/m_info.html

01.02.2008 : Odeon to screen exclusive Thriller video
We're delighted to announce that Odeon cinemas are showing the enhanced version of the full length Thriller short film for FREE at selected screens as a major UK first on the Friday and Saturday before release (8th & 9th February)

The exclusive screenings will be held at Odeon cinemas in the following places. Please contact your local Odeon for more information.

Covent Garden - 8th & 9th Feb
Hatfield - 8th & 9th Feb
Kingston - 8th & 9th Feb
Leicester - 8th & 9th Feb
Manchester - 8th & 9th Feb
Southampton - 8th & 9th Feb
Guildford - 9th Feb only

http://de.click2music.co....jthriller/

are there any reviews of wanne be startin something or the girl is mine 08?

motownlover said:

Tons of people on iTunes reviewed it. Reviews are good for both.

Also, bboy - where can we cop the Japanese editition with "Got The Hots"
On Amazon, the Jap edition looks to have the same tracklisting as the USA release.

Oh yeah and "The Girl Is Mine 2008" is my new calltone. Be jealous people.

bboy87 said:

hatfield have sorted themselves out they have no idea how they are gonna do the tickets and are suggesting people just turn up on the day

Vanilli said:

You can get the Japanese edition on Amazon(they just haven't updated the info)
CD Japan, HMV Japan, and Sony Japan's online store has it.

My biggest issue is the cost. I'm not trying to spend $40

Can the mods make this one a sticky?

Rodya24 said:

Anyone?

Rodya24 said:

01.02.2008 : Thriller 25th Anniversary Edition
Thriller 25 is out February 11th and is available for pre-order now. All formats include the original album plus groundbreaking videos, the superstar remixes AND an unreleased track from the Thriller sessions.

There are 4 physical formats:

Classic cover
Zombie cover
Special Edition Hardback cover with expanded booklet
2 x LP

There are also digital editions and iTunes exclusive tracks

http://de.click2music.co....jthriller/

#1 International release: classic cover, 20 p. booklet, contains only For All Time

#2 International release: holographic zombie cover, 20 p. booklet, contains only For All Time

#3 International release: holographic zombie cover, 48 p. booklet, contains only For All Time

#4 Japanese release: classic cover, 20 p. booklet, contain For All Time and Got The Hots

#5 Japanese release: holographic zombie cover, 20 p. booklet, contain For All Time and Got The Hots

#6 Japanese release: holographic zombie cover, 48 p. booklet, contain For All Time and Got The Hots

http://www.sunherald.com/...51682.html


Michael Jackson's Thriller 25 is Rocking the Planet!
International Anticipation For Thriller 25, The New Edition Of The World's Biggest Selling Album Of All Time, Reaches Fever Pitch With New Hit Singles, An All-Star 40-Episode 'ThrillerCast' Podcast Event, The 'Thrillicious' Sobe Life Water Ad Campaign Lau
By Legacy Recordings


NEW YORK, Feb. 6 --

Global anticipation for the release of Thriller 25, the newly expanded deluxe 25th anniversary edition of Michael Jackson's Thriller, the world's top-selling album of all-time, is already reaching a fever pitch across the planet with surprise hit singles, an ongoing 40-episode "ThrillerCast" podcast event, the premiere of the "Thrillicious" Sobe Life Water ad campaign at the Super Bowl, the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Michael Jackson at the NRJ Music Awards at Cannes and a host of upcoming events and surprises. Thriller 25 will be available stateside on Tuesday, February 12 and available around the world the week of February 11. The album debuts seven bonus tracks including new collaborations with Akon, Fergie, will.i.am and a Kanye West remix of "Billie Jean 2008."
The Michael Jackson Thriller 25th anniversary celebration runs throughout 2008 with a multi-faceted global marketing campaign featuring high-profile television, radio and online events around the world and the major re-launch of Michael's official website, www.michaeljackson.com
The first single from Thriller 25, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008" featuring Akon, is a surprise smash hit impacting Pop, Rhythm and Urban radio stations across America with the single becoming the #1 On Demand song online for all Clear Channel Radio station web sites since its release on January 18.
One of the best-received commercial highlights of Super Bowl XLII was the premiere of "Thrillicious," PepsiCo Inc.'s Sobe Life Water spot starring supermodel Naomi Campbell and a cast of animated lizards busting out a series of fiercely choreographed dance moves to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
Michael Jackson was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious NRJ Music Awards ceremony at the opening of MIDEM in Cannes, France. Following a video tribute to the artist, Michael Jackson delivered a personal message via satellite to NRJ attendees and a television audience of more than 7 million viewers.
A recent Thriller 25 promotion in London featured professional dancers re- enacting the iconic "Thriller" zombie choreography on the London Underground, Trafalgar Square and other unusual locations. A competition has been launched for UK Michael fans to submit their own versions of the "Thriller" dance to YouTube.
"Thrillercast," a groundbreaking 40-episode podcast event, launches on February 12th and will be updated weekly throughout 2008. The series features icons of music, screen and culture including hip-hop legend Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, superstars Nick Cannon and Chris Brown, choreographers Shane Sparks and Mia Michaels from the hit show "So You Think You Can Dance," and dozens of other special guests. Each episode takes us behind the scenes into their lives to explore their own personal experiences with Thriller and its influence on them, both personally and professionally. "Thrillercast" will be available for free through iTunes, Zune, and all major podcast providers, as well as directly through www.michaeljackson.com.

Thriller 25 includes all nine of Thriller's original performances as well as seven bonus tracks including five mind-blowing 21st century homages to Thriller featuring some of the hottest performers in contemporary pop and soul music:
Thriller 25's first single, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008," produced by Michael Jackson and Akon, is a brand new version of Thriller's opening cut showcasing newly recorded 2008 vocals by Michael Jackson and Akon.
Previously unreleased in any form, "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008" by Michael Jackson with will.i.am is Michael's original pre-album demo remixed by Michael and will.i.am with newly added vocals and production from will.i.am.
"The Girl Is Mine 2008" is another Michael Jackson with will.i.am collaboration based on a demo predating Michael's duet with Paul McCartney. This is a new, previously unreleased track, newly produced and mixed by Michael and will.i.am featuring a will.i.am rap. "The Girl Is Mine 2008" is being introduced as the album's first single in numerous international territories and is already charting in Brazil, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, the UK and Japan, where it entered the Top 10 at #5.
"Billie Jean 2008" features the original tracks of Michael's watershed signature hit, newly remixed by Kanye West.
"Beat It 2008" is both a remix and a new track featuring Michael's vocals and many instrumental tracks from the Thriller original coupled with seductive new vocals by Fergie with new band tracks and production by Michael Jackson and will.i.am.
Thriller 25 closes with "For All Time," a nascent classic recorded by Michael during the original Thriller sessions in 1982 but never completed or released until now. Michael has added new vocals and band tracks to his original recording. Mixed by Mick Guzawski and newly-produced by Michael Jackson, "For All Time" provides a sublime and fitting close to this new, definitive edition of Thriller, the top-selling album of all time.
As an added bonus for fans, Thriller 25 includes a DVD featuring Michael Jackson's groundbreaking short films from Thriller ("Thriller," "Beat It," and "Billie Jean") and the artist's Emmy-nominated breakout performance of "Billie Jean" from the legendary "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" television special (first broadcast on NBC on May 16, 1983).
The Thriller 25 CD/DVD set will be available in three collectible editions: a standard version with the album's original cover art; a standard version with a new "Zombie" cover; and a deluxe edition in a hard-bound casebook format with a 48-page booklet. Both standard versions contain the CD and bonus DVD in a brilliant box with a rainbow holographic O-card and a 20- page booklet. Thriller 25 will also be available as a Platinum MusicPass Album Card, a digital album card which will enable consumers to download Thriller 25, and special bonus content in the form of high-quality MP3 files.

Originally released in the US 25 years ago on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records, Thriller, Michael Jackson's sixth solo album and second with producer Quincy Jones, rocketed the former child-star lead singer for the Jackson 5 into the stratosphere of international superstardom. Introducing the "robot" and the "moonwalk" into the international lexicon of clubland dance moves via the pulsing sounds of Thriller, Michael Jackson revolutionized all aspects of mainstream pop culture -- from radio airwaves to the newly emerging art form of music videos -- becoming the world's most popular entertainer in the process.
The original Thriller spent an astounding 80 consecutive weeks in the American Top 10, 37 of those at #1. Seven of the album's original nine tracks became Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 while Individual singles from Thriller reached #1 chart positions in the US, the UK, France, Italy, Australia, Denmark, Belgium, South Africa, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand and Canada.
Thriller made history as the first and only record to be America's top- selling album two years running (1983 and 1984).
Thriller has been certified 27x platinum by the RIAA, giving it Double Diamond Award status in the US. In addition, the album has achieved Diamond or Multi-Platinum status in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. In 1985, the Guinness Book of Records named Thriller the Best Selling Album of All Time, an achievement which remains unsurpassed to this day.
In February 1984, Michael Jackson held a record-breaking 12 Grammy nominations, going on to win eight, which stands as the record for most Grammy Awards to be won by anyone in a single year. Seven of Michael's Grammys that year were for Thriller: Album of the Year; Record of the Year ("Beat It"); Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Thriller"); Best Engineered Recording, Non- Classical (Thriller); Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("Beat It"); Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ("Billie Jean"); Best R&B Song ("Billie Jean"). (Michael's eighth Grammy that year was in the Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken category for "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial"). That same year, Michael Jackson took home eight American Music Awards and three MTV Video Music Awards. The following year, "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller" took home the Best Video Album trophy at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards.

Named the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time" by the Guinness World Records, Michael Jackson is among the most highly acclaimed and influential artists in pop culture. He was named the World Music Award's Best-Selling Pop Male Artist of the Millennium and received the American Music Award's Artist of the Century Award. He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice: in 1997 as a member of the Jackson 5 and as a solo artist in 2001.
_____

Clear Channel has the full album online:
http://www.1023kissfm.com...index.html

I'm gonna order the japanese edition!

where do u order the japanese version from?

kash said:

Amazon.com.

According to bboy87 the tracklist for the Japanese edition has not been updated, but it includes both For All Time and Got The Hots.

Rodya24 said:

thanks rodya

what do the japanese have that we don't have them?

We gave them an atom bomb....and why now sweet unreleased mj tunes...

MikeMatronik said:

Rolling Stone's review:
Michael Jackson

Thriller 25 Deluxe Edition
5/5

Thriller is the sound of Michael Jackson in 1982, when he was the coolest, slinkiest, prettiest pop star alive. He was Boy George times Rick James and beat both of them at their games, although he did nothing but make the competition sound even better. He taught Boy George fans and Rick James fans to hear each other's music, just as he taught Van Halen, Lionel Richie, ZZ Top, Stevie Nicks and Bruce Springsteen to play to this grand new pop-thrills audience he'd called to the floor. After this, nobody claimed disco sucked again. "Billie Jean" was the hit, with MJ's voice aching with erotic longing and dread, and nearly five minutes of creepy strings and seductive bass and breathy gasps, though there wasn't a station on the dial that faded the song out early. "Beat It" was the one designed to get on rock radio — but "Billie Jean" got there first, since the rock stations played it, along with the rest of the world. They couldn't resist that bass. Who could?

Thriller has been the world's favorite pop album ever since, and this deluxe expanded edition shows why, even with six lame new remixes from artists like Fergie, Akon and Kanye West, as well as the mediocre ballad "For All Time," a rerecorded outtake from the original sessions, tacked on. The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition is like the I'm Not There soundtrack: All the new artists sound cowed by the originals, and they know nobody will ever play their versions twice. Even Kanye can tell he's in over his head, so he sends "Billie Jean" out there without the bass line, which is like putting Bobby Orr on the ice without a hockey stick. And in an early fast-track contender for the year's most pointless musical moment, there's Fergie's "Beat It 2008." How funky and strong is her fight?

Akon's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" is actually kind of great — he slows it down into a piano ballad, lingering over the easily obscured lyrics. Paul McCartney doesn't show for "The Girl Is Mine 2008," but that would be a sore subject anyway. (What can it mean that the music on "The Girl Is Mine" was played by the guys from Toto, who had that song about Rosanna Arquette — who has recently been linked to McCartney?) Instead we get Will.i.am, whose idea of production is dumb-thug bluster and trying to hide the goofy "doggone" hook, which is the whole point of the song, dude. "The Girl Is Mine" without "doggone" is like "Same Girl" without the Waffle House. Note: Though MJ's original vocals are on here, Jackson himself doesn't participate much in the new versions, showing previously well-hidden instincts of self-preservation.

So that leaves the original Thriller, which hasn't lost any of its fizz. One of the funny things about the album is that even though it's as close as you can get to timeless, it really only could have happened in 1982. That was a watershed year for pop music, with New Wave synth pop and disco feeding into each other, the year of Madonna's "Everybody" and George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" and the Human League's "Don't You Want Me" and Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing." Jackson got this whole era grooving a few years earlier with Off the Wall, but at the end of 1982, right when everybody was still reeling from Prince's 1999, he dropped Thriller and shocked everyone. Madonna made her own version of "Billie Jean," retitled "Like a Virgin." Stevie Nicks called her version "Stand Back," Pat Benatar called hers "Love Is a Battlefield." Bob Dylan called his "Tight Connection to My Heart." Yet none of them could touch the original.

Thriller has MJ at his breathiest and most salacious ("PYT"), and his most beautifully fragile ("Human Nature," so open and brave it makes "She's Out of My Life" seem phony). The one hit that sounds tired now is "Thriller," killed off by the video, with its bid for middlebrow respectability. ("Billie Jean" and "Beat It" are great videos — "Thriller" is just a crap John Landis movie.) But the wiggly bass that kicks off the album in "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' " feels like the sound of MJ's soul, and you can hear it all over his voice. (A big hand for bassist Louis Johnson, please, who also played on "Billie Jean.") By the time he came back with Bad, the wiggle was gone from his bass and his voice. Yet the weirdest thing about Michael Jackson will always be that he gave the world this work of genius.

http://www.rollingstone.c...xe_edition

Hope it flops.

MattyJam said:

I have to admit, I do like Got The Hots

In "Thriller" news, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' '08" dropped eleven spots to No. 92 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its sales on iTunes have dropped as has radio airplay decreased.

Timmy84 said:

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I TOLD YA'LL WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN!!!

I knew that shit was gonna flop the moment I heard it


But honestly, The Girl Is Mine 2008 or PYT 2008 should've been the USA's single.

bboy87 said:

Agreed. But you know the odd thing about it was Epic thought Akon would be guaranteed 'cause usually his songs do make the top 40/10 and shit but I guess he couldn't do it this time.

The Girl Is Mine '08 would definitely have been better but it's only doing modest work in the UK.

On the better side of the other Jackson - Janet, her song is still in the fifties. That's just too disappointing. Michael had Akon on the thing and the thing wasn't any higher than "One More Chance" was.