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Jackson performed for Motown's 25th Anniversary, "Yesterday, Today, and Forever". Fifty million viewers tuned in as they watch Michael Jackson dance, doing his moonwalk routine, while wearing his sequined one hand glove. With MTV airing Michael Jackson's videos, along with radio stations playing a steady stream of number one hits like "Billie Jean", Thriller", "Beat it", The Girl Is Mine", "P.Y.T.", and "Human Nature", he dominated the music industry and became the most popular entertainer ever. Michael Jackson's innovative videos, well crafted fashionable sense, and a sequined glove that he wore on one hand while doing his trademark dance routine "the moonwalk" became popular among the youths and they imitated Michael's dance moves and wore the same clothes as they saw in the videos. Thriller was perched at number one for thirty seven weeks, sold fifty million copies that made Thriller the biggest selling all time record that landed Michael Jackson in "The Guinness Book of World Records". Michael Jackson received eight Grammy Awards for Thriller being album of the year along with the hits and videos that received their individual recognition. In 1985, Michael Jackson wrote the biggest famine relief song "We Are the World".

Throughout the rest of the 1980's and early 1990's, Michael Jackson would continue to maintain his popularity with his music and videos, but the tabloids would aggressively publish his antics and bizarre behaviour such as him sleeping in the hyperbaric chamber, receiving plastic surgery continuously to alter his skin colour, nose, to eradicate every trait of his African American culture, and the alleged purchase of the Elephant Man's bones. Michael Jackson was always featured on the front page of the world's most prolific tabloids and that the public began to see him as weird and bizarre. Michael Jackson still received various awards and recognition for his humanitarian efforts and major endorsements of top of the line products and he continued to create innovative videos with cameo appearances from famous actors, athletes, and models.

By 1993, Allegations of child molestation would stamp out Michael Jackson's popularity.

By 1995, not even the album "History" would bring Michael back to same level of success as achieved in the previous decade.

By the later 1990's and early 20th century, Michael Jackson had gone from famous to infamous due to his bizarre behaviour. Michael Jackson, at that point, was more famous for his bizarre behaviour than

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