Michael Jackson - Dangerous

About Dangerous by Michael Jackson Album

Dangerous was the first album Michael Jackson released in the 1990s, on November 26, 1991. It became his third best-selling album and second to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, where it spent the next 4 weeks - selling 8 million copies in the US. With sales of approximately 30 million copies worldwide, it is Jackson's best-selling recording of the nineties and near ties with Bad as his second-best selling album, behind Thriller. According to the sleeve notes on the later remastered edition of the album, recording sessions began in Los Angeles, California at Ocean Way/Record One Studio 2 on June 25, 1990. The sessions ended at Larrabee North and Ocean Way Studio on October 29, 1991, being the most extensive recording project of Jackson's career at the time (over 16 months compared to the usual 6 spent for his previous three studio albums). In March 1991, Jackson signed a 15 year, 6 album deal to Sony Music. The press reported that Sony actually handed over $1 billion to Jackson, but that was not the case. At the time, Sony estimated that if the albums Jackson released under the new contract sold at the same level they currently sold, it would generate over $1 billion in profits for them. Additionally, Jackson was awarded the highest royalty rate in the business. By the time the contract expired in March 2006, Michael would have been paid $45 million from Sony ($1 million a year, plus $5 million per album delivered). This does not include money he would have also earned from sales of albums, singles, videos etc. Under this contract, Jackson is estimated to have earned $175 million from album sales alone. At this point, Dangerous was already in the making, under the producing talents of (Quincy Jones recommended) 23-year-old Teddy Riley and Grammy-winner Bill Bottrell. The previous album, Bad, was Jackson's last designed for the LP industry, conforming to the usual 10-song within 50-minute format, whereas Dangerous was a 77-minute, 14-track compilation, which almost dared the capacity of early Nineties compact discs. Consequently, the record was released as a double album in vinyl. Dangerous was a highly anticipated album, as shown by an incident at the Los Angeles International Airport, where a group of armed robbers stole 30,000 copies before its official release. Because of this, more early copies of the album were released in several countries on November 21 followed by the official November 26 release date. The album is also well known for the cover's mysterious nature.It's also known for the number of occult symbols.(eg: the world upside down in the middle) A special limited-edition of the album was initially released in a large box with a picture of Jackson's eyes, which folded open to reveal the normal cover (painted by pop surrealist Mark Ryden), in pop-up card, with the CD and booklet in the bottom. Dangerous was released on November 26, 1991 with record-breaking sales. Dangerous was Jackson's fastest-selling album ever in the United States with seven million shipped in under two months. This broke the sales record for Bad, which had also shipped seven million copies in 1987, but in twice as many months. Dangerous debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 Album Charts, with 326,500 copies sold in its first week. It held the position for four weeks until being replaced by Nirvana's Nevermind; the switch has been cited as an important signal helping to break alternative rock into the mainstream. Jackson helped promote the album with a high-profile performance at the Super Bowl and an interview with Oprah Winfrey, but it did not return to the #1 slot. However, it returned to the Top Ten after Jackson received the Grammy Legend Award at the 1993 ceremony. Dangerous spent 117 weeks inside the Billboard 200, thirty weeks more than Bad. The RIAA certified Dangerous 8x platinum, for shipping 8 million copies. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at #1, holding off U2's Achtung Baby, but in the second week it was replaced by Queen's Greatest Hits II. Dangerous spent 23 weeks in the Top 10, and a total of 96 weeks on the Top 75 chart. "Black or White" was produced and co-written by Bill Bottrell. The single was Jackson's biggest hit since 1983's "Billie Jean". In all, nine singles were released, spanning two years (1991-1993). A planned single release of the title track "Dangerous" was canceled in late 1993 due to the child molestation allegations. Seven singles reached the UK Top 10, the most for any Jackson album. 48% of Bad's worldwide sales were in the UK and US; for Dangerous, the total was 33%, reflecting Jackson's growing global reach. For the most part, the singles from Dangerous were bigger hits in Europe and Australia than in the United States. Dangerous sold very well in both Asia and South America, two emerging and growing record markets, and was supported by the Dangerous World Tour. Prior to the release of Jackson's next studio album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, Dangerous had already sold over twenty-two million copies worldwide.bIn the space of 17 years, sources estimate the record has sold between 30 and 32 million copies worldwide making it a faster selling album than his previous record Bad. The album was included at number 115 on the list of the "Definitive 200" albums of all time developed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers. As was becoming the standard for Jackson, the album's music videos were among the most costly and innovative of their time. Several of the music videos taken from the Dangerous album had complex storylines and dance sequences, and featured cameo appearances by celebrities. The video for "Jam", directed by David Kellogg, showed Jackson and Michael Jordan playing basketball and dancing together, while "Remember the Time", directed by John Singleton, was set in an Ancient Egyptian palace, and starred Eddie Murphy, Magic Johnson and Iman. "In the Closet" featured Jackson and supermodel Naomi Campbell as lovers. The director of the video was photographer Herb Ritts, who also photographed Jackson in a series of promotional shots for the release of the Dangerous album. The video clip for "Who Is It" is notable as it was directed by David Fincher who later went on direct a number of films including Se7en, Fight Club and Zodiac. For the video "Give Into Me", Michael appears in a concert setting, featuring Guns N Roses guitarist Slash. "Black or White" was originally over ten minutes long, premiering simultaneously on November 14, 1991 on MTV, VH1, BET, and Fox. The video featured one of the earliest examples of computer-generated morphing. The last four minutes of the video also induced much controversy, as it depicted Jackson smashing store windows and destroying a car with a crowbar. Jackson said this destructive behaviour was intended to imply a message of anti-racism and racist graffiti was added in later versions to make the violence more understandable. The music video was also controversial because of Jackson's sexually suggestive dance, which included the crotch grab as well as zipping up his pants. MTV and the other music video networks decided to excise the last four minutes of the "Black or White" video for all subsequent airings, and Jackson issued a statement apologizing to anyone who had been offended, and explaining that he tried to interpret the animal instinct of panthers into a dance. The video featured Macaulay Culkin and an appearance during the morphing scene by young Tyra Banks and was directed by John Landis, also the director of the "Thriller" short film. Alternative editions of the albums became very rare, products almost exclusive for record collectors. The most notable editions were a 1992 edition that folded out to become a diorama, a 1993 Japan remix compilation and a 1993 Australia two-disc edition that contained bonus remixes. An international re-release of the album (entitled Dangerous: Special Edition) took place on October 16, 2001, just two weeks before the release of Jackson's studio album Invincible. Simultaneously, Special Editions of Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad were also released. For the occasion, Dangerous was digitally remastered and included a slipcase and a brand new 24-page colorful booklet with revised artwork and previously-unseen photos. The new edition managed to reach #108 in the UK charts (the only one of those four re-releases that didn't enter the Top 75 there). Because of the constraints of Dangerous' running time, previously unreleased songs were not included. Originally, Dangerous: Special Edition was to be released as a double disc release, the 1st disc featuring the original 14 track album, the 2nd filled with unreleased tracks. This project was scrapped at the last moment, however many of the tracks were eventually leaked onto the internet along with various demos of other tracks that appeared on the album. In 2004, some of these leaked tracks were officially released on The Ultimate Collection (namely the "Dangerous" (Early Version) and "Monkey Business").

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Dangerous (Michael Jackson) Album Songs

NoSong TitleTime
1.Jam 5:39
2.Why You Wanna Trip On Me 5:25
3.In The Closet 6:32
4.She Drives Me Wild 3:41
5.Remember The Time 4:00
6.Can't Let Her Get Away 5:01
7.Heal The World 6:24
8.Black Or White 4:16
9.Who Is It 6:35
10.Give In To Me 5:29
11.Will You Be There 7:39
12.Keep The Faith 5:58
13.Gone Too Soon 3:22
14.Dangerous 6:59

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- Now Thats The 90s

I remember being given this album on casette when I was eight and I had got my first radio with a tape deck the same year. I played this tape from the time I got it in the early 90s until the tape broke. I played it from years on end from the A side to the B side not skipping a single song so the tape gave up eventually from all that jamming to it. I did aquire it on disc to replace my broken tape. This album was the 90s. "Give In To Me", "Who Is It", Remember the Time" and "In the Closet" are my favs, The whole album is a gem. Miss MJ!!!

- SPEECHLESS

IT'S GREAT. MY FAVORITE ALBUM.

- Michaelโ€™s Best Album

Each track is unique and memorable. Buy the whole if you can. Otherwise, consider Will You Be There, Gone Too Soon, Keep the Faith, Why You Wanna Trip On Me, Jam, Heal the World, Remember the Time and Black or White. R.I.P., King of Pop.

- Amazing

I love the song will be their

- W

Wow and yes yes s

- Very under rated

Donโ€™t know why this album doesnโ€™t get more credit got some great songs on it!! He was definitely a legend! RIP KING OF POP!

- Dangerous

Dangerous is my favorite song

- Greatest Album of All Time

This is perhaps the most underrated album of Michael Jacksonโ€™s discography, maybe even the most underrated album of all time. It balanced songs about love to environmentalism to the human condition. It does this with hard and gritty sounds as well as soft, gentle and lifting instrumentals. Itโ€™s the perfect balance. This album surpasses Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad album all together. Seems like MJ came out of his shell after halting work with Quincy Jones and proved he was the one creating masterpieces. This is undoubtedly the Greatest album of all Time from the best musician and entertainer from all time. The cover art is enough to show how majestic Michael Jackson truly is.

- It is awesome

My favorite songs are in this album. Will you be there, who is it, remember the time, in the closet, black or white, heal the world.

- BUY THIS ALBUM NOW

I think this is one of his best albums. MJ ABSOLUTELY NAILED Remember the Time (the music video s great too) My personal favorite is Who is it.

- Gone but not Forgotten.

I remember when I met MJ personally, great guy. Miss him a lot. Even after 8 years of his death, his music especially his latest album in 2014 "Xscape" was bought by over 19 million people. That's a lot

- AMAZING

THE BEST SONG IS 'REMEMBER THE TIME'!!!!!!!!

- DANGEROUS is a near-flawless masterpiece!

It's impossible to say which album is Michael Jackson's finest but DANGEROUS certainly belongs in the conversation. The only tracks that are better suited as 7" edits are "In the Closet," "Black or White," and "Will You Be There" but this is a 77-minute pop masterpiece filled with personally revealing lyrics and music ranging from R&B and rock to soul and classical.

- Forever The King

His best album in my opinion๐Ÿ‘‘

- Love it

Love this album you should buy it it makes you wanna dance

- Gone Too Soon

He sang his heart out in that song <3 love this album so much!! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

- Dangerous

Good album

- ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽถ

Such good bops on this album ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿค“

- Jammmm

This album that he made was awesome and this doing called why you want to trip on me is awesome

- Michael Jackson: A Dangerously Great Album.

With the evolution changing in music, Michael set out to rebirth his sound. With the help of New Jack Swing producer Teddy Riley, who had launched his career with Guy and worked with Boy George, this album to me was his second best. Through the midst of controversy, and triumph, he still managed to have this album peak at number 1. Heavy beats and drums mixed with pop lyrics, he crafted another masterpiece. I can remember back in 1991-92, โ€œRemember the Timeโ€ was a world premier music video. He always pushed the envelope and made music videos fun. Everyone tuned in to watch a legend keep making great music. Even his music award performances were very entertained. โ€œDangerousโ€ ends with a tale of mystery and deceit. If there's a song that needs to be an anthem in our society right now is โ€œHeal the World.โ€ I remember when he performed this at the Super Bowl; talk about a moving performance. Still a top 10 album on my list.

- K.McKay

If we really try we can keep his dream alive I know heโ€™s not here but can we get him back on top of he charts I know thatโ€™s a whole lot to ask but if we continue to boost his songs maybe

- AMAZING!!!!

One of the best albums ever made. If you are a new MJ fan, buy this as well as the Thriller and Bad album. You will not regret it. Pure art and perfection.

- Simply awsome

This is stupendous! This album came out in 1991 and it sounds as good today as it did then! One of if not the best MJ albums I have and I own everything he has released. Keep the faith, give in to me, why you wanna trip on me, dangerous are show stoppers! If you don't have this album buy it it will be the best 10bucks spent in this store.

- Kinda good

Basically a whole bunch of "tee hee!".

- Yes!!!

I was born during the Dangerous era and was the very first CD I knew front and back word for word before I could even walk!!! This brings back so many memories! I love you Michael!

- Amazing Album

This album and basically every other album heโ€™s made is a work of a musical genius. I still donโ€™t understand why yโ€™all think itโ€™s okay to downvote his music by bringing up allegations and a film that wasnโ€™t factual with a director who didnโ€™t even bother to do any research on it. Please keep his personal life and music career separate.

- Classic

What's more to say?

- Outrageous!!!!! I'd be dangerous hearing the songs.

Love Remember the Time, In the Closet and Dangerous, smooth and sexy songs that thrills me. Give in to me & Black or white, hard rock :-) MJ is totally amazing, I admire him and his smile.

- Go mj

I personally think this is one of the best albums ever.....

- MJ IS THE KING!

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- Best

Only best mj albums Bad' Dangerous

- My First Michael Jackson Album

Even though I had heard songs from Thriller and Bad, this was the first Michael Jackson album I ever owned - on cassette in 1991. So thankful to purchase the digital album and it's my favorite because from song one to the last song and everything in between, the album was consistent and as if every song was a hit. The first two songs I fell in love with were Jam, Dangerous and Black or White, but Keep the Faith is close to my heart. Really, I adore every song on this album. Don't worry, I've since purchased the digital albums Thriller and Bad as well, lol.

- LOVE IT!!๐Ÿ˜

I love this album glad I bought the full thing!!

- Amazing!

I've always been and always will be an MJ fan. His songs are truly inspiring, i love him so much. He deserves more recognition, even after 7 years of his death. It's amazing how in 2016, he sold more albums than any other artist! His legacy will live on forever.

- The best album I've ever owned

My uncle bought me a cassette of this album when it came out in 1991. Rediscovering today on iTunes reminds me of how much a genius Michael was.

- ์ž ๊น๋งŒ์ด์š”, ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ด๋ก ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌํ•™์ž ์ด๋ผํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋‹น์‹  ๋งˆ์ดํด ์žญ์Šจ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, (๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋‚œ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์ œ2์˜ ์ „์„ฑ๊ธฐ์‹œ์ ˆ์„ ๋Œ€๋ณ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ X์„ธ๋Œ€ ์ถœ์‹ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ) ํ•œ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝํด๋ž˜์ง€์ปฌ๋กœ์ด์Šคํ€ด์–ด์˜ ์Œ์•…๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์™• ์‹ ์Šนํ›ˆ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ํ—ค๋น„๋ฉ”ํ‹€๊ณผ ์‹ธ๊ท€๋ ค ๋กค๋ง์Šคํ†ค๋ฅ˜-๋ฝ์Œ์•…๋ฅ˜์˜ ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋„Œ๋ง๋ฐ”๋žŒ์˜ ๋ฝ๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ€ธ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์ง€์Œ4๋„๋ฅ˜์˜ ์žก์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ค์ธ ๋น„ํ‹€์ฆˆ, ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋ฉ”ํƒˆ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฅผ ์ดํ™”๋ฌผ๋ ฅํ™”ํ•œ ์„œํƒœ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋’ค์—” ํŒ์˜ ์™•๊ตญ๊ณผ ์Œ์•…์˜ ์™•๋„๋ฅผ ๋„˜๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” 26์„ธ์— ์š”์ ˆํ•œ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์ฒœ์žฌ๊ฐ€์ˆ˜ ์œ ์žฌํ•˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ์—๋Š” ๋‚˜์™€ ์ผ€์ดํŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋‚ญ๋น„ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ์“ด ๊ธ€์€ ์•„๋‹ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ผํ˜„.

- Such a classing

My all time favorite. MJ is the King๐Ÿ‘‘

- So cool ๐Ÿ˜Ž

๐Ÿ˜‰ it is so cool Michael

- Crap

This album is so boring. Well sung but boring AND dated. They pretty much use the same crappy drum track on almost track. Couldnโ€™t Michael find a better song writer?? I shelled out $25 for this album in 1992 on CD and I so regreted it after less than one week. What bland run of the mill music. Forget about this one folks.

- Buy it

Seriously ... their are no words too describe this man or his music. This album is simply perfection. โœจโœจโœจ

- Easy 5 Star

This is Michael's worst album. That's saying something because this is still a great album. He transitioned to more of a rock sound this album. Nonetheless this is a great album. It just isn't up to par with his others in my opinion. Jam- 7.5/10 Why You Wanna Trip On Me- 9.5/10 In The Closet- 7/10 She Drives Me Wild- 7.5/10 Remember The Time- 9/10 Can't Let Her Get Away- 8/10 Heal the World- 7/10 Black or White- 9/10 Who Is It- 9/10 Give Into Me- 8.5/10 Will You Be There- 8/10 Keep The Faith- 8.5/10 Gone Too Soon- 6.5/10 Dangerous- 10/10

- One of the best MJ albums Iโ€™ve heard

Having grown up with, first, The Jackson Five, then Michael Jackson and his brother Jermaine when the โ€œ5โ€ split, and then his sister, Janet, and then finally just Michael, this album shows that he progressed through the eras just as those of us his age. His music grew from his original albums, Thriller and Bad, to his latest works which I feel privileged to hear. I canโ€™t believe they were hidden away and not published when they were written. Probably because Michael was a perfectionist and didnโ€™t feel that they were good enough. While he is gone too soon, these hidden gems are perfect for me.

- Classic!

Best album of the 90's and one of his best albums!

- Absolutely awesome!!!!!!

This whole album is awesome it's worth it buy all the songs you won't be disappointed. :)

- Dangerous

Each song has a different genre... Michael is a genius on this album. This is my favorite album of all time!

- Great album

Mjs greasiest hits

- Good and Bad

Loved The Song Dangerous the song not the album thriller and bad where way better albums over all but dangerous the song tops every crappy song out there today. Okay!

- Greatness !!!

The videos and songs for this album are amazing ... Even more then 20 years since it was released ... Better then 99% of any music today.... Love it!!! Never gets old

- MJ IS THE GOAT

Iโ€™m 21 years of age and my family loves Michael Jackson....I can remember when my aunt and mother would hum this song called โ€œremember the timeโ€ not really understanding back then who he was until I got older and I got an iPhone and started listening to him downloading all of his music and albums. Jamming every since.

- Raised on This

My favorite MJ ALBUM my parents used to play it on cassette in the car and the songs were the first to stick to my memory. Legend

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