SOCC44H3 Chapter Notes -Culture Series, Canadian Identity, Canadian Literature
Document Summary
Michael jackson"s thriller at 30: how one album changed the world. Cbs was excited for the release of thriller in the fall of 1982 but they were also terrified because his album off the wall didn"t do so well. Cbs were already in a slump, because their profits were down 50 % and their sales were down 15%. They desperately need michael"s album to be a hit. Spent the most weeks on the billboard charts. Thriller became the first album to have seven hot 100 top 10 hits. They blamed the slump of the music industry on that fact that children were spending too much money on video games than music. However this is untrue, it was due to technological shifts that tore apart the mass audience in which pop depended on. With the introduction of fm caused the am listeners to disintegrate.
