MICHAEL JACKSON VINTAGE VINYL Album LP Dangerous

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MICHAEL JACKSON - Vinyl LP- Dangerous

Condition of Record - Excellent
Condition of Sleeve - Excellent
Label - Sony/EPIC
Catalogue Number - EPC 465802 1
Year of release - 1991

Dangerous was released on November 26, 1991 with record-breaking sales. Dangerous was Jackson's fastest-selling ever in the United States with four million shipped in under two months. This broke the sales record for Bad in 1987, in twice as many months, but the same circulation.

Dangerous also debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts with 326,500 copies sold in one week of release. It also managed to stay in the Top 10 for a week in the 65th week, reaching #10 after Jackson received the Grammy Legend Award at the 1993 Grammy Awards. The album received a huge boost in sales in 1993 when he performed at the Super Bowl and was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. This meant Dangerous spent 117 weeks inside the Billboard 200, thirty weeks over Bad. The RIAA certified Dangerous 7x platinum, for shipping 7 million copies.

In the United Kingdom, the album was even more successful. It debuted at #1, holding off U2's Achtung Baby, but in the second week it was replaced by Queen's Greatest Hits II, after Freddie Mercury died. It spent 23 weeks in the Top 10 right up until the 69th week and a total of 96 weeks inside the Top 75. The sales figures there stand at 2.1 million, making Dangerous one of the best-selling albums of the 1990s.

The UK and US comprised 48% of the total worldwide sales for Bad. For Dangerous, the two countries comprised 33%, making the album more successful globally (not just restricted to those two regions). The singles from Dangerous were mostly bigger hits in Europe and Australia and more were released than from Bad. These were spectacular sales records compared to Michael's earlier two albums, Thriller and Bad in many European countries and Australia. Dangerous sold very well in both Asia and South America, two emerging and growing record markets.

"Black or White" was produced and co-written by Bill Bottrell and was an instant success. It was, in fact, the biggest hit single since 1982's "Billie Jean". Other singles were successful too, and in all, nine singles were released. "Dangerous" itself was planned for a single at the end of 1993 but canceled due to the child molestation allegations, and was the same number of singles as Bad. Despite this, "Dangerous" has been performed on stage since the second leg of the Dangerous Tour towards Jackson's last concert at the Apollo Theatre in 2002. All nine singles were released in the UK, seven reaching the Top 10 - an achievement Jackson had never made before. The major successes from the album were "Black or White", "Remember the Time", "In the Closet", "Heal the World", "Who Is It", and "Will You Be There". In the US, the singles did not perform as well as those from Thriller or Bad - Dangerous produced four Top 10 hits out of seven singles released there.

The album was supported by the Dangerous World Tour. Prior to the release of Jackson's next studio album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book I, Dangerous had already sold over twenty-two million copies worldwide. In the space of 17 years, the record has sold over 32 million copies worldwide, making it a faster selling album than his previous record Bad.

As was becoming the standard for Jackson, the album's music videos were among the most costly and innovative of their time. Several of the music videos taken from the Dangerous album had complex storylines and dance sequences, and featured cameo appearances by celebrities. The video for "Jam", directed by David Kellogg, showed Jackson and Michael Jordan playing basketball and dancing together, while "Remember the Time" was set in an Ancient Egyptian palace, and starred Eddie Murphy and Iman as the pharaoh and his queen. "In the Closet" featured Jackson and supermodel Naomi Campbell as lovers. The director of the video was photographer Herb Ritts, who also photographed Jackson in a series of promotional shots for the release of the Dangerous album. A "Dangerous" video was filmed in 1992 by avant-garde director David Lynch, and considered a rarity among collectors. The video clip for "Who Is It" is notable as it was directed by David Fincher who later went on to direct a number of films including Seven, Fight Club and Zodiac.

"Black or White" was originally over ten minutes long, premiering simultaneously on November 14, 1991 on MTV, VH1, BET, and FOX. The video featured one of the earliest examples of computer-generated morphing. The last four minutes of the video also induced much controversy, as it depicted Jackson smashing store windows and destroying a car with a crowbar. However, this destructive behaviour was intended to imply a message of anti-racism and racist graffiti was added in later versions to make the violence more understandable. The music video was also controversial because of Jackson's sexually suggestive dance, which included the crotch grab as well as zipping up his pants. MTV and the other music video networks decided to excise the last four minutes of the "Black or White" video for all subsequent airings, and Jackson issued a statement apologizing to anyone who had been offended, and explaining that he tried to interpret the animal instinct of panthers into a dance. The video featured Macaulay Culkin and an appearance during the morphing scene by young Tyra Banks and was directed by John Landis, also the director of the "Thriller" short film

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