Re: MTV Poll: Greatest Album Ever (Thriller Nominated & TV Specials)
The results are in from the
MTV poll which opened up in late February (see
HERE for more details). Michael Jackson's "
Thriller" has topped the poll by an exceptionally huge margin--close to 1/3rd of all votes cast across nearly 30 chosen albums were for Thriller alone. A special is scheduled to air in Europe on
April 12, 2009 on
MTV (and perhaps affiliated music networks) to officially crown Thriller the "
greatest album ever!" Runner-up was
Craig David's Born To Do It, of which he states: "
To come just behind the King of Pop is incredibly flattering, because I grew up listening to that guy's music."
DJ Trevor Nelson added: "
There will never be a marriage of producer and artist and song writing and pop sensibility - it just won't happen again. And also, due to the way people buy records now, there'll never be an album that sells as many copies - and that's the thing that will keep it at number one."
MTV greatest album of all time (since 1981) top ten:
1 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
2 - Craig David - Born To Do It
3 - Guns'n'Roses - Appetite for Destruction
4 - Radiohead - OK Computer
5 - Nirvana - Nevermind
6 - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
7 - Oasis - Definitely Maybe
8 - U2 - The Joshua Tree
9 - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
10 - Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Congratulations, Michael!
Source: MJJR.net /
In The News / MTV (UK)