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Michael Jackson Has Now Charted Hits On The Hot 100 In Seven Different Decades Michael Jackson Has Now Charted Hits On The Hot 100 In Seven Different Decades
 This week’s Hot 100 is filled to the brim with Christmas favorites, almost all of which are years or even decades old and which now return to the tally every December as millions of Americans rush to stream and buy those seasonal smashes they can’t get enough of. A handful of holiday-themed compositions debut on the latest edition of the chart, with one of the most successful acts of all time collecting one more very important win.
New on the latest Hot 100 is The Jackson 5’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” which appears for the first time at No. 46. The song is by no means really “new,” but it does find its way to the tally 50 years after it was first released. In doing so, the most famous of the brothers manages a feat that few in history can claim.
With another hit on the Hot 100 in the current decade, Jackson extends his tenure as an artist whose legacy never seems to stop expanding, even years after his passing. Because “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” appears on the chart when it does, as opposed to only two years ago, the legendary vocalist has now landed at least one new placement on the tally in each of the past seven decades.
Jackson first appeared on the Hot 100 alongside his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in very late 1969. They wasted no time sending their introductory smash "I Want You Back" first into the top 10 (in December of that year) and then to No. 1 in early 1970. Once that track came and went, the band was off and running, and they would go on to send quite a few hits to the list throughout the ‘70s and early ‘80s.
Once Jackson went solo, the Hot 100 wins kept on coming, and he had no trouble landing successes on the all-genre tally throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. His output slowed in the ‘00s, but he still managed to send several cuts to the chart.
Since his passing in 2009, Jackson has landed just a handful of new Hot 100 placements, including at least three between 2010 and 2019 alongside stars like Justin Timberlake and Drake. Now he’s entered yet another decade with “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” which appears on the ranking dated January 2, 2021, 52 years after his first smash on the ever-changing list.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2021/12/31/michael-jackson-has-now-charted-hits-on-the-hot-100-in-seven-different-decades/?sh=154495a42a68
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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That’s incredible | |
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Damn, a dead man is still topping the charts? People really do miss him. | |
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I guess that shows you how much that today's music sucks, when a guy that's been dead for a while is still making the charts. | |
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looby said:
I guess that shows you how much that today's music sucks, when a guy that's been dead for a while is still making the charts. Oh no, you made a big mistake by saying "today's music sucks." Just be prepared for the backlash [Edited 12/31/20 13:42pm] | |
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Topping the charts is #1, not #46 You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Lets also remember that this is all streaming, so why wouldnt all this christmas music re-chart etc.... THe way its all tabulated now none of this xmas is selling, its not like people are busting down doors to buy the new this and that. I dont take streaming numbers all that serious and give them so much weight mainly because people still dont realize there is a huge difference between a million people buying your album via cd or vinyl or even real download, as to a million people streaming it, and the difference is not just in the artists bank account or lack of that is. To further use this example Taylor Swift's new album "evermore" huge hit with real sales etc...however because of streaming, all 15 songs from the album charted as singles, including "Willow" which debuted at Number one, now that technically is called the "single" because it has a video, but week two because she has no airplay the song falls to 38 becuase now all the sales are done and the streaming the songs "first day/week" have stopped. Its really a bizarre calculating of how this is done, Kid Cudi released an album that same week, and because of streaming songs he had a 44 second song debut on the charts, and its billed as the "Shortest single" to ever chart while its not an official single because that really doesnt exist anymore, UNLESS you are like most of the new artists that do not do albums you just release a song, and that is why the charts are what they are. SO i put no stock in most of this UNLESS you are telling me about sales of your physical product even if its paid downloads, streaming is meaninlgess because one person can just set the song to repeat and go to sleep with their phone on at you just got yourself a full eight hours of streaming a song, its done all the time folks. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Agreed. It's not like a perrenial seller like Nat King Cole's christman album that used to show up on the catalogue chart every year when that chart actually meant something.
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Absolutely true. But let that streaming/download shit work for a classic artist for once. And Michael had been robbed of a #1 before, when he had the #1 selling album in the US, but they didn't let him chart, because it was a catalog album, but shortly after they changed the rules and he would have been recognized at #1. | |
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MickyDolenz said:
Topping the charts is #1, not #46 No way! | |
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I love this song. I never understood why it wasn't on the greatest hits of the J5 since it s one of their best enduring hits. I d like to think that even if MJ never did anything after 1975, the J5 would still be a thing today. |
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I love that song. "We're not hitchhiking anymore!....we're riding!!" | |
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PatrickS77 said:
Absolutely true. But let that streaming/download shit work for a classic artist for once. And Michael had been robbed of a #1 before, when he had the #1 selling album in the US, but they didn't let him chart, because it was a catalog album, but shortly after they changed the rules and he would have been recognized at #1. True that, Number Ones was actually #1 for weeks after his death. https://www.billboard.com...ts-records The true comprehensive top 10 after MJ'death ( in onmy one day of sales since he died a Thursday). . #1 Number Ones #2 The Essential #3 Thriller #4 Off The Wall #5 J5 's the Ultimate Collection #6 BAD #7 Dangerous #8 History Greatest Hits #9 Ultimate Collection ( initial peak at #154!) . They change the rules only to allow the Beatles catalogue reissue to break a new official record. [Edited 1/2/21 8:12am] |
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