How Michael Jackson's 'Bad' Became the First Album To Notch Five Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
Michael Jackson photographed in 1987. It's not Jackson's most famous album, but 'Bad' achieved something none of his -- or anyone else's -- albums had before. Thirty years ago today -- on Aug. 31, 1987 -- Michael Jackson debuted one of the most anticipated albums in the history of pop music: Bad, the follow-up to 1982's Thriller, which had already been certified 20-times platinum by the RIAA upon its successor's release, well on its way to becoming the best-selling album of a