Plzz.tell me which is the largest selling album of all time and who is the singer?
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1 Thriller
Michael Jackson
Like Woodstock, Beatlemania, and the birth of rock & roll itself, the creation of the most popular album in history took place amid fits of genius, spasms of second guesses, and bursts of tears. Its first single, ''The Girl Is Mine,'' came out before the rest of Thriller was even finished — and producer Quincy Jones wondered whether Michael Jackson's moon-walking masterpiece had gotten off on the wrong foot. ''If we didn't put the song out first, we might never have put it out at all,'' Jones laughs now. ''If you're singing 'The doggone girl is mine,' you're really living dangerously.'' (Within days of Thriller's eventual release, that doggone duet with Paul McCartney climbed to No. 2, and the hype machine ground into full gear.)
Playing it safe, it seems, was never an option. Just before the Thriller sessions started, Jones and Jackson agreed to slap together a storybook album for the biggest movie of all time — E.T. That left them a mere two and a half months to complete Thriller in time for Christmas. Four weeks into the project, with ''no time to analyze or paralyze,'' Jones decided to chuck four songs — and to replace them with what most people now consider indispensable tracks: ''The Lady in My Life,'' ''PYT (Pretty Young Thing),'' ''Human Nature,'' and ''Beat It.'' Later, while listening to what was supposed to be the final version of the album, Jackson was so disappointed that he started to cry. ''The record company guys were there with their champagne,'' Jones recalls. ''But when they said, 'This is it,' we had to say, 'No, this is not it.'''
Michael Jackson
Like Woodstock, Beatlemania, and the birth of rock & roll itself, the creation of the most popular album in history took place amid fits of genius, spasms of second guesses, and bursts of tears. Its first single, ''The Girl Is Mine,'' came out before the rest of Thriller was even finished — and producer Quincy Jones wondered whether Michael Jackson's moon-walking masterpiece had gotten off on the wrong foot. ''If we didn't put the song out first, we might never have put it out at all,'' Jones laughs now. ''If you're singing 'The doggone girl is mine,' you're really living dangerously.'' (Within days of Thriller's eventual release, that doggone duet with Paul McCartney climbed to No. 2, and the hype machine ground into full gear.)
Playing it safe, it seems, was never an option. Just before the Thriller sessions started, Jones and Jackson agreed to slap together a storybook album for the biggest movie of all time — E.T. That left them a mere two and a half months to complete Thriller in time for Christmas. Four weeks into the project, with ''no time to analyze or paralyze,'' Jones decided to chuck four songs — and to replace them with what most people now consider indispensable tracks: ''The Lady in My Life,'' ''PYT (Pretty Young Thing),'' ''Human Nature,'' and ''Beat It.'' Later, while listening to what was supposed to be the final version of the album, Jackson was so disappointed that he started to cry. ''The record company guys were there with their champagne,'' Jones recalls. ''But when they said, 'This is it,' we had to say, 'No, this is not it.'''
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