Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » John Landis http://pulse2.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Michael Jackson’s Thriller Watched On The Net Over 8.5 Million Times Since Thursday http://pulse2.com/2009/06/30/michael-jacksons-thriller-watched-on-the-net-over-85-million-times-since-thursday/ http://pulse2.com/2009/06/30/michael-jacksons-thriller-watched-on-the-net-over-85-million-times-since-thursday/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:56:37 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=16986 Continue reading →]]>
On December 2, 1983 Michael Jackson released a 14 minute long music video for the song “Thriller.” The Thriller music video was directed by John Landis (Blues Brothers 2000, Beverly Hills Cop III, Coming to America, ¡Three Amigos!, National Lampoon’s Animal House, and An American Werewolf in London).

On June 25th Michael Jackson passed away and the world was shocked. In order to recapture their memories of the King of Pop, they watched the Thriller video on the Internet. The Thriller music video was watched over 8.5 million times since June 25th. Old Michael Jackson songs are almost among the most downloaded songs on iTunes as of right now.
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On June 27th, about 1,500 inmates at CPDRC performed a tribute. The tribute was completed in 10 hours and features the songs “Ben,” “I’ll Be There,” and “We Are The World.” This video was watched almost 3 million times since being created 3 days ago.

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