And the award goes to...Michael Jackson!!!

On February 28 in Black History...

In 1984, Michael Jackson, entertainer won 8 Grammys.  His album, "Thriller", broke all sales records to-date, and remains one of the top-grossing albums of all time.   That same year, Jackson won eight American Music Awards, the Special Award of Merit and three MTV Video Music Awards.  Thriller was recognized as the world's best-selling album on February 7, 1984, when it was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records. ..



Thriller ranked number 20 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2003.  The Thriller video was preserved by the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry, as it was deemed "culturally significant".


Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall. Thriller explores similar genres to those of Off the Wall, including pop, R&B, rock and post-disco music.
Recording sessions took place between April and November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, with a production budget of $750,000, assisted by producer Quincy Jones. Jackson wrote four of Thriller's nine tracks. In just over a year, Thriller became—and currently remains—the best-selling album of all time, with sales estimated by various sources as somewhere between 65 and 110 million copies worldwide, and is the best-selling album in the United States. Seven of the album's nine songs were released as singles, and all reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards at the1984 Grammys.