After 43 years of its launch, the famous Michael Jackson song, Billie Jeanreached first place in Spotify’s global daily ranking on Friday, May 15, 2026, with 6,028 million views in a single day.
The song was written by himself Michael Jackson and released in January 1983 as part of the album Thriller. Since the release of the biographical film Michaelon April 24, 2026, his music has added views in digital consumer applications.
Since the beginning of May 2026, a few days after the premiere of the feature film, Billie Jean entered the global top 10 Spotify and, a week later, it was already in position number 3with 37.6 million views, according to information from Infobae.
The song is one of the most emblematic of the “king of pop”, since tells the story of a woman who accuses the artist of being the father of her child. However, Jackson always denied that a “Billie Jean” existed in real life.
“There was never a real Billie Jean. The girl in the song is a combination of people my brothers have been harassed with over the years. “I could never understand how these girls could say they were carrying someone’s child when it wasn’t true,” she said in her autobiography. Moonwalkpublished in 1988.
Other themes by the artist also advance in this escalation, such as Beat Itwhich is already in 6th place in the global ranking, with more than 29 million weekly views; and Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enoughwhich advanced 42 positions to number 16.
Meanwhile, other songs like Human Nature, Smooth Criminal, Thriller, Dirty Diana and Rock With You They have increased their views significantly in recent weeks. Now, The “king of pop” is positioned among the most listened to artists on Spotify worldwide.
the movie Michael broke box office records. In its first weekend of release it reached first place at the world box office.with a collection of US$217 million and, according to the magazine Varietythis is the best debut in the history of a biopic.