Overview
- On the Billboard Hot 100 dated Nov. 15, 2025, “Thriller” jumps from No. 32 to No. 10 after Halloween-week consumption spiked.
- Jackson becomes the first solo artist with top-10 Hot 100 entries in six different decades; counting the Jackson 5 lifts his span to seven decades.
- The single has now logged 26 total weeks on the Hot 100, passing “Billie Jean” and “Beat It” to become Jackson’s longest-charting Hot 100 hit, though its original peak was No. 4.
- “Thriller” appears on 11 Billboard charts this frame, sits in the top 10 on nine of them, and leads four at No. 1: R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs, R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales, R&B Streaming Songs, and R&B Digital Song Sales.
- Halloween fell on the first day of the new tracking week in 2025, amplifying streams and sales that helped catalog staples reenter, with “Thriller” outpacing other seasonal returns like “Monster Mash” and “Ghostbusters.”