Video: Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana

An important thing to realize about Michael Jackson's Bad , a really great album that turns 25 today: Pretty soon after it came out, Warner Bros. spent $22 million making Moonwalker , a full-length film vehicle with a plot that absolutely defies comprehension; it involves Jackson turning into a claymation rabbit and a killer robot and a spaceship. And everyone agreed that this was a perfectly reasonable thing to do , since the movie did, after all, string together a whole bunch of songs from the album. Here's another important thing: This movie's [...]

Here's some utterly mind-blowing news: Katy Perry has tied Michael Jackson to become the second artist in the 53-year-history of Billboard's Hot 100 chart to produce five number one singles off the same album. What's more, Perry is the first female, and only living artist to accomplish this feat. Here are Perry's five number one singles (and their corresponding videos) from Teenage Dream : "California Gurls" (feat. Snoop Dogg) "Teenage Dream" [...]

Following the single release of Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" — which arrived on the heels of her previous four #1 hits off Teenage Dream — chart watchers have been wondering one thing: will the Smurfy songstress be the first artist to match Michael Jackson's record streak of five consecutive Billboard Hot 100 #1s from album (1987's Bad )? It's looking that way: this week Perry's latest radio staple inches up to #2 on the chart. Let's take a closer look at what [...]