The trailblazing music video for “Thriller” was named by MTV as the Greatest Music Video Ever Made and it was inducted into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 2009. The single is certified Diamond in the US with more than 10 million sales and it also achieved multi-platinum status in Australia and Mexico.

“Thriller” was another international hit, topping the pop charts in Belgium, France, Portugal, and Spain, while peaking at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the R&B chart. You could see the merchandising for this one word, how it jumped off the page as ‘Thriller.’ You could visualize it on the top of the Billboard charts. Originally, when I did my “Thriller” demo, I called it ‘Starlight.’ Quincy said to me, ‘You managed to come up with a title for the last album, see what you can do for this album.’ I said, ‘Oh great,’ so I went back to the hotel, wrote two or three hundred titles, and came up with the title ‘Midnight Man.’ The next morning, I woke up, and I just said this word… Something in my head just said this is the title. Rod had originally offered the song to his band, Heatwave, but they turned it down. It was changed to “Thriller,” and the lyrics were rewritten shortly before re-recording. The original name for “Thriller”, composed by songwriter Rod Temperton, was “Starlight”. “Thriller,” known for having what is arguably the most significant music video (and dance moves) in pop culture, is the seventh and final single from Michael Jackson’s Thriller album. I'm gonna thrill you tonight Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To terrorize y'all’s neighborhood ( I'm gonna thrill you tonight) And whosoever shall be found Without the soul for getting down Must stand and face the hounds of hell And rot inside a corpse's shell I'm gonna thrill you tonight Thriller, ooh, babe ( Thriller) I'm gonna thrill you tonight ( Thriller night) Thriller, oh, darling ( Oh, baby) I'm gonna thrill you tonight ( Thriller) Ooh, babe ( Thriller night) I'm gonna thrill you tonight ( Thriller) Oh, darling ( Oh, baby) Thriller night, babe ( Thriller night, babe) Ooh The foulest stench is in the air The funk of forty thousand years ( Thriller night, thriller) And grisly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive Your body starts to shiver ( I'm gonna thrill you tonight) For no mere mortal can resist The evil of the thriller! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The thrill lyrics