Thriller was the #1 album for 37 weeks, with 7 top-10 singles, 2 #1's, the title track peaking at number four, a Grammy winning music video, and 32M albums sold the first year -- 70M today, keeping it the #1-selling album ever -- for some very good reasons.
That tribute to all-things-necro music video, BTW, directed by John Landis and co-starring former Playmate Ola Ray, is still considered the best music video of all time by quite a number of folks -- it is certainly the longest at 13:42*.
#takethat
[ * Well, ok, Top Gun, at 110 minutes, is a longer music video, for "Danger Zone", by Kenny Loggins. ]