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''Bad'' is the seventh studio album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released on August 31, 1987, by Epic Records, nearly five years after Jackson's previous studio album, ''Thriller''. As of 2012 ''Bad'' itself has sold between 30 to 35 million copies worldwide, was certified 9 times Platinum in the United States alone, and has been cited as one of the 30 best-selling albums of all time. The album produced a record five ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number one singles, the first and one of only two albums to do so, the second being Katy Perry's 2010 album ''Teenage Dream''. ''Bad'' was recorded during the first half of 1987. The lyrical themes on the record relate to media bias, paranoia, racial profiling, romance, self-improvement and world peace. The album is widely regarded as having cemented Jackson's status as one of the most successful artists of the 1980s, as well as enhancing his solo career and being one of the best musical projects of his career. Nine of the eleven songs on ''Bad'' were released as singles; one was a promotional single and another was released outside of the United States and Canada. Five of the singles hit number one in the United States, while a sixth charted within the top ten, and a seventh charted within the top twenty on the Hot 100. ''Bad'' peaked at number one in thirteen countries and charted within the top twenty in other territories. The only songs on the album which were not released as a single were "Speed Demon" and "Just Good Friends", the latter being the only song on the album to also not have a music video accompanying it. ''Bad'' saw Jackson exercise even more artistic freedom than he did with his two previous Epic releases (''Off the Wall'' and ''Thriller''). On ''Bad'', Jackson composed nine of the album's eleven tracks and received co-producer credit for the entire album. The album continued Jackson's commercial success in the late 1980s and garnered six Grammy Award nominations, winning two. Aside from commercial success, the album also received critical acclaim from contemporary critics. ''Bad'' was ranked number 43 in the ''100 Greatest Albums of All Time of the MTV Generation'' in 2009 by VH1 and number 202 in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album marked the final collaboration between Jackson and producer Quincy Jones. ==Production== Jackson's previous albums, ''Off the Wall'' and ''Thriller'', were critically and commercially successful,〔 eventually selling over 20 million and 65 million units worldwide, respectively. Jackson's aim for ''Bad'' was that it would sell 100 million copies. The first studio album Jackson released in almost five years since the release of ''Thriller'', ''Bad'' was the third, and final, musical collaboration between Jackson and Quincy Jones. It was produced by Jones, with co-production credit given to Jackson.〔 Jackson began recording demos for the anticipated follow-up to ''Thriller'' a few months after the 1984 Victory Tour with the Jacksons and throughout 1985 while preparing for Disney's 4D film experience Captain EO, which featured an early pre-album extended cut of "Another Part of Me." Album development for ''Bad'' began in November 1986〔. VH1. MTV Networks. June 7, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2015.〕 and recording took place between January 5, 1987 and July 9, 1987, at Westlake Audio, where a special wooden stage was built to allow Jackson to dance while recording. Jackson wrote a reported sixty songs for the new album and recorded thirty, wanting to use them all on a three-disc set.〔 Jones had suggested that the album be cut down to a ten-track single LP.〔 When the album was released on CD, a bonus 11th track, "Leave Me Alone", was included.〔 It was later released as a single. Later reissues of the LP also include this song. Jackson was credited for writing nine out of eleven of the songs on the album.〔 Other writing credits included Terry Britten and Graham Lyle for "Just Good Friends" and Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard for "Man in the Mirror".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bad (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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