Album · Michael Jackson
Bad by Michael Jackson
Bad is an album by Michael Jackson, released in 1987. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 18 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Man In The Mirror”, on 8 lists with a best position of #146.
Bad, Michael Jackson's seventh album, landed on Epic on August 31, 1987, after two years of work, and it's the sound of a man with Thriller to follow and a tougher image to sell. It was his third and last record with Quincy Jones, but this time Jackson wrote and co-produced all but two of the songs, and he pushed the music somewhere edgier: gleaming digital synthesizers, funk grooves and a hard rock bite, with Siedah Garrett and Stevie Wonder dropping in.
The songs swing from romance and the glare of celebrity to world peace and self-improvement, and the hits kept coming: "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror", "Dirty Diana" and "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" made it the first album with five number-one singles on the Hot 100. Critics loved his singing and the arrangements, even if some thought it fell short of Thriller. The public didn't care: it has sold more than 35 million copies.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Bad on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Man In The Mirror | 8 | #146 | – | 2009–2026 | |
| 2 | Bad | 3 | #93 | – | 1988–2026 | |
| 3 | Smooth Criminal | 3 | #476 | – | 2018–2026 | |
| 4 | The Way You Make Me Feel | 2 | #392 | – | 2018–2026 | |
| 5 | Dirty Diana | 2 | #30 | – | 1988 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.