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Michael Jackson "Thriller" Greatest Album Ever According To MTV Poll
Posted on 09. Apr, 2009 by CSS.
Michael Jackson’s 1983 LP Thriller has been named the “Greatest Album Ever” in a new poll from MTV. The pop superstar’s Quincy Jones-produced album–which featured hits like “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” “Thriller,” and “The Girl Is Mine”— is the world’s best-selling album and dominated a poll of MTV viewers.
“I don’t think there’ll ever be another album like it in the history of music,” says MTV Base presenter Trevor Nelson. “There will never be a marriage of producer and artist, or songwriting and pop sensibility like that again. Due to the way people buy records now, there’ll never be an album that sells as many copies.”
More than 40,000 votes were cast by fans asked to choose their favorite album since 1981 from a shortlist of 26 LPs. The final list was then compiled by music industry experts from MTV’s three UK channels – MTV2, VH1 and MTV Base.
Check out the Top 20 and let us know what you think of the album rankings.
MTV’s Greatest Album Ever Top 20:
- Michael Jackson – “Thriller”
- Craig David – “Born To Do It”
- Guns N’ Roses – “Appetite For Destruction”
- Radiohead – “OK Computer”
- Nirvana – “Nevermind”
- Oasis – “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?”
- Oasis – “Definitely Maybe”
- U2 – “The Joshua Tree”
- Arctic Monkeys – “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”
- Amy Winehouse – “Back to Black”
- The Strokes – “Is This It?”
- Kanye West – “The College Drop Out”
- The Stone Roses – “The Stone Roses”
- Eminem – “The Marshall Mathers LP”
- The Smiths – “The Queen Is Dead”
- Rage Against The Machine – “Rage Against The Machine”
- Prince and The Revolution – “Purple Rain”
- REM – “Automatic For The People”
- Usher – “8701?
- Pixies – “Doolittle”
- The Notorious B.I.G – “Ready To Die”
- Lauryn Hill – “The Mis-education of Lauryn Hill”
- Human League – “Dare”
- Jay-Z – “Blueprint”
- Dizzee Rascal – “Boy In Da Corner”
- Mary J. Blige – “What’s the 411?”
