Top 50 Michael Jackson Singles, by KevinScream [#1 REVEALED]

[BeeFan]

Liberian Girl - gotta admit I just really discovered this after JLo sampled it (I believe it was her ) ...great tune but would rank lower at mine

I didn't know that!

Well, how many MJ songs she sampled? "I Wanna Be Where You Are", "Liberian Girl"...

Yes... I looked for it... it was the Remix to If You Had My Love on her Remix-album

[LonelyDreamer]

32. Gone Too Soon (1993)

US: -- / UK: #33

SHORT-FILM (First Version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXnTPF9wqUA
SHORT-FILM (Alternative Version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcNamirwTaY

The final single off Dangerous and his saddest song ever IMO! This one has a special meaning for me, since it's a perfect description on how ephemeral is life, and I always relate its lyrics to MJ's passing - so, since 25th June 2009 I try (unsuccessfully) to avoid this track, despite its greatness.

>> 'Gone Too Soon' was performed live by Michael Jackson in 1993.

>> As Elton John's 'The Last Song', it's dedicated to Ryan White, a young AIDS patient who died at age 18 and was a friend of both Michael and Elton.

31. Childhood (1995)

* Released as a double A-side single - 'Scream/Childhood' *
US: #5 / UK: #3

SHORT-FILM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVJscGa5vbc

Surely Michael's most autobiographical song and video. It was his way to explain how hard was his childhood, and how tough it is to be misunderstood by everybody.

This song regularly brings me to tears, and its lyrics are probably my favourite one of all time:

"Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for the world that I come from
'Cause I've been looking around
In the lost and found of my heart

No one understands me,
They view it as such strange eccentricities
'Cause I keep kidding around
Like a child, but pardon me...

People say I'm not okay
'Cause I love such elementary things...
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood
I've never known...
(...)"

>> 'Childhood' is main theme song of "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home".

[Wardo]

Crying time!

Gone Too Soon is indeed so suitable to MJ's passing...

And about Childhood:

Before you judge me, try hard to love me

[Tiger]

31. Childhood (1995)
32. Gone Too Soon (1993)

Wow those are two awesome songs that are fitting lately

[BeeFan]

Gone Too Soon ... nice song, just got into it after the funeral

Childhood - a lil bit too cheesy for my taste but still good

[Andreita2994]

gone too soon -every time i listened to the song, it made think about mj .nice ballad, i love he sang it live. i watched over and over
childhood- is a different story, when mj passed every time i hear childhood i cried. i couldn't help it. it was just so sad and unfair everything he went through. i felt each and every word on this song. you can just feel his pain . i couldn't handle that song for a long time. even now it's still sad.
ps. listening to the instrumenation. sounds like a baby song & sad too...you just have to hear it to understand what i'm talking about

[LonelyDreamer]

COUNTDOWN:

50. Happy
49. The Way You Make Me Feel
48. We Are The World
47. What More Can I Give
46. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
45. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
42. Rock With You
41. I Just Can't Stop Loving You
44. Black Or White
43. Ghosts
42. Rock With You
41. I Just Can't Stop Loving You

40. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
39. Jam
38. Music And Me
37. Human Nature
36. Smile
35. One More Chance
34. Say Say Say
33. Liberian Girl
32. Gone Too Soon
31. Childhood
...



* I won't post the "DIDN'T MAKE THE TOP 50" singles anymore, to make the Top 10 even less predictable.

[NothingFails]

Easily two of the most poignant and hardest to listen to songs of MJ's career now that he's passed.

[LonelyDreamer]

30. Will You Be There (1993)

US: #7 / UK: #8

SHORT-FILM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQY_QL_wvQU

Another poignant and sad song, perhaps his most 'gospel' recording ever. It's also one of his first experiences with classical music, since the prelude is a sample of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, performed by the Cleveland Orchestra.

>> 'Will You Be There' is main theme song of "Free Willy'.

>> Its music video finale was deliberately reproduced by Beyoncé in her 'Experience' Flaws And All performance.

29. Bad (1987)

US: #1 / UK: #3

SHORT-FILM (Edited): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUXAEzaC3Q

One of his signature songs and the big 'breakdown' after Thriller release... Michael sounds more agressive than ever!

Furthermore, a classic song deserves a classic music video, that's it: the 18-minute short film, directed by Martin Scorsese, still is one of the best music videos of all time.

Who's bad?

[CrazyCrazy]

Both good tracks, "Bad" might get hate on here but I find the cheesiness of it good! One of his videos I remember well, I hope "Stranger In Moscow", "Leave Me Alone" and "Remember The Time" do well, I love those three.

"Gone To Soon" is a real lovely song as well, glad to see it here.

[biscuits]

'Will You Be There' is lovely, and overshadowed by 'Heal The World' I think.

Don't like 'Bad' very much.

[NothingFails]

You're killing me with all the heartbreaking songs. The spoken word piece at the end of Will You Be There is heartwrenching to listen to these days.

I loved "Bad" when I was younger and it was a great video to come back with, but looking at it through an entirely different age, I think the song is one of his weakest. But still, the video was bad-ass and was a great way to usher in that he was back after such a hiatus.

[Tiger]

29. Bad (1987)
30. Will You Be There (1993)

Will You Be There is awesome

[BeeFan]

Don't like Bad that much but I looooove Will You Be There ...way too low IMO

[toni_pest]

Baaaaaad! one of my favorites!

[LonelyDreamer]

I remember the first time I saw 'HIStory' tracklist... I thought '2 Bad' was some kind of 'Bad (Part 2)'!

[LonelyDreamer]

28. Blood On The Dance Floor (1997)

US: #42 / UK: #1

SHORT-FILM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_NntYhzV4&ob
SHORT-FILM (UNRELEASED ALTERNATIVE VERSION): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WdaCW4qyuU

First single off Blood On The Dance Floor, and a huge success in almost every country in Europe, but quite ignored in USA.

It's surely one of his 'sexiest' songs, and I definitely love its beat and the whispered vocals. Also, BOTDF artwork is one of my favourite ones ever.

>> 'Blood On The Dance Floor' single is dedicated to MJ's long-time friend Elton John.

27. Ben (1972)

US: #1 / UK: #7

LIVE PERFORMANCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj_8yT0XkyU

An all-time classic and MJ's first #1 solo single! This is about his friend Ben, a killer rat from a horror film of the same name (its 2003 remake is titled "Willard").

I always wanted Michael to sing this again in some of his adult solo tours, but he never did. It's a shame, since it's one of my favourite songs of all time and would surely sound better in his adult voice.

>> 'Ben' won the Golden Globe for Best Song in 1972 and was nominated to the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1973.

[BeeFan]

Blood on the Dancefloor is good but far from his best

Ben ...always felt it was too cheesy

[Tiger]

28. Blood On The Dance Floor (1997)

Good club track

[biscuits]

'Blood on the Dancefloor' reaching #1 in the UK is laughable. So many of his classic songs missed out on #1, yet this went to the top!

[JSparksFan]

"Smile" is hauntingly beautiful and "Liberian Girl" is good too.

"Gone Too Soon" is heartbreaking to hear after MJ's passing and "Will You Be There" is a good ballad, albeit not one of my faves from him.

"Bad" is great! I love the music video so much.

"Blood On The Dancefloor" is a song that had to grow on me but when it did, I loved it. The chorus is fantastic.

"Ben" is actually my mom's fave MJ song so I hear it around the house from time to time. I've grown to love it and it's definitely become my fave song from his earlier years in the industry.

[Andreita2994]

will you be there, one of his best in my opinion.i never get tired of listening. the last when he speaks it used to make me cry is so sad.
bad-it has grow on me...i never liked it much. but now is one of my fav from the bad album. actually right now it's the song i most listen from the bad album. i just love it.
blood on the dance floor- it's such cool song, it's dark and pop, like a dark pop. i used to listened often . but now i'm into is it scary and superfly sister (but it's always changing)
ben- it is one of the first mj songs i've ever heard. it made love mj early years. since the moment, i got to know more of his early songs. although from pre-off the wall. i only own destiny and triumph. i have over 30 j5 (mj) songs i love.
ps this year i must own got to be there album ,as well as bad25 along with the tour

[LonelyDreamer]

26. In The Closet (1992)

US: #6 / UK: #8

SHORT-FILM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwvix7uEQg0
LIVE PERFORMANCE (HIStory Tour): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgai0B_4bSA

The King & Queen duet that never happened! 'In The Closet' was initially intended to be a duet with Madonna, but she wanted to change the lyrics (plus a more provocative music video), so MJ decided to keep her out of the project.

Despite that, 'In The Closet' has became his most sensual video ever! MJ + Naomi Campbell = HOTNESS!

P.S.: First lines are sung by the "Mistery Girl", years later revealed to be Princess Stéphanie of Monaco.

25. Off The Wall (1980)

US: #10 / UK: #7

LIVE PERFORMANCE (Bad Tour 1987): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMx_jaG3QfM

Unfortunately, one of his most underrated singles, and quite overshadowed by 'Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough' and 'Rock With You'. It's Off The Wall highest charted single in my list, and my favourite song of that album.

>> Mariah Carey sampled 'Off the Wall' on her song I'm That Chick (E=MC²).

>> MJ performed live this song several times, during The Jacksons' Destiny, Triumph and Victory tours, and his solo Bad and HIStory (as a medley) tours.

[NothingFails]

In The Closet is a great track that seems to get lost in the shuffle, it was one of his sexier songs and videos.

Off The Wall has always been a "like" song, never been a fave but never a skip-button track either.

[BeeFan]

Closet - video is epic, but the song is just okay, IMO

Off The Wall - don't really like it