Why stick to a specific anniversary and not releasing a (timeless) superdeluxe edition?
Half a century. Same reason 25th (a quarter of a century) is a significant landmark.
After the Leaving Neverland debacle, reissuing Thriller is probably the best way to put the attention back on Michael's music. It is a universally popular album, so I can see why we are getting Thriller 40.
Yeah, that makes sense. They’re probably testing the waters to see how the public responds to the first few projects. The Broadway show got a fair amount of criticism over Leaving Neverland, but the discussion around Thriller 40 so far has been positive. Hopefully this encourages them to take bigger swings.
can't understand why people are waiting to get the short films in full hd on blue ray it could have happened a long time ago
The purpose of an anniversary edition is to increase the profile of the original album. Thriller (original album) is already a huge catalogue seller and features regularly on music charts. So one can argue that Thriller 40 is already a success before its release.
The same thing that has happened to every huge star of every decade since the beginning of recorded music will happen to MJ eventually: the people who grew up with his music will die off, and to the new generation, he’ll be as irelevant as Bing Crosby is to you, or as Maurice Chevalier was to your parents. While some old artists can get a sudden revival in this TikTok era, it’s short-lived, it’s usually limited to one song, and the kids quickly move on to other things. The die-hard fans are the only ones who care about any artist who’s not today’s chart-toppers. It was always thus in the world of pop music. MJ still has a huge following because he had a 40-year career filled with dozens of hits. But he’s dad’s music to your average TikTok kid.
As somebody who works with teenagers and young adults, MJ is by no means “dad’s music.” You’d be stunned how many kids genuinely love Michael, Elton John, Prince, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Billy Joel, so on and so forth. Just look at the variety of ages who are attending the Broadway show. Hell, he’s still in the top 70 most-streamed artists on Spotify worldwide, thirteen years after his death. You’re not gonna convince me that’s all from middle-aged listeners.
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it will never work because the truth never changes. or as Michael said ; ‘and when the groove is dead and gone, you know that love survives so we can rock forever on’ 
You’re absolutely right. But the overall point remains: as of now, MJ is remarkably successful for a legacy act that’s been dead for over a decade. He will eventually fade, but to dismiss his current popularity as “dad’s music” ignores his ongoing cultural relevance.
As much as I love the album Dangerous, the beginning of the 90s was the era of techno, house and grunge. MJ for the first time introduced rap in his songs, but he was too late imho. DANGEROUS is an excellent album of course, but there was no real wow effect comparable to THRILLER or BAD. It looked like an updated recipe with all the already existing ingredients: Who Is It = Billie Jean, Heal The World (although extremely successful) = We Are The World; Give In To Me = Beat It/Dirty Diana; Keep The Faith = Man In The Mirror; Jam = Bad with rap; etc. Just my two cents. Now had DANGEROUS dropped in 1988 or 1989 it would have been awesome and most certainly huge. MJ waited too long and Technotronic, Snap, and other styles imposed themselves in the clubs.
I have nothing against albums anniversary one should only make more of it off the wall new edition with chalk I found stupid
True but in terms of NJS which was huge at the time in the early 90s, Dangerous is a huge album for the genre
Probably unrelated but i'm kind of sad that Dangerous released so late, by the time it was out, singles had club remixes on them and not the kind of extended or alternative mixes you would find on 80s singles, it would have been very interesting to see different takes on songs that got a single release, rather than just forgettable dance remixes/whatever was popular at the time
I'm speaking from my own experience back then, the way I felt it and lived it. MJ was huge with BAD album. MJ had this strategy to kinda make himself forget and drop da bomb. It worked between Thriller and Bad. But it didn't fully work with Dangerous.
Honestly, i don't think it being too late was the reason it didn't surpass Bad in sales, i'm pretty sure that Dangerous would have definitely outsold Bad if the allegations hadn't come out by 1993...
can someone actually see if the sales of bad and dangerous in their first 2 years were similar or if one was bigger then the other, we could prob predict it that way.
The sales were similar from my memory, but the hype with everyday people regarding MJ's music wasn't as high with Dangerous as with Bad.
It seems back then people weren’t rushing to the store to buy a new album. I remember a time where Nsync would sell 3 million copies in the first week. It seems dangerous or bad didn’t come close to those first week numbers.