Jackson thought 'Bad' was a flop

Pop icon Michael Jackson - who died of a suspected cardiac arrest last month - was unhappy the album 'Bad' failed to match the success of its predecessor, 'Thriller', despite selling over 25 million copies.

Jackson thought 'Bad' was a flop

Pop icon Michael Jackson - who died of a suspected cardiac arrest last month - was unhappy the album 'Bad' failed to match the success of its predecessor, 'Thriller', despite selling over 25 million copies.

His friend and collaborator Quincy Jones - who produced Michael's biggest three LPs, 'Off the Wall', 'Thriller' and 'Bad' - said: "He sold 25 million copies of 'Bad'. That's a lot of records. But Michael wanted to sell 100 million. In his bathroom he had written '100 million' on the mirror in lipstick.

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