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"The Way You Make Me Feel" - Michael Jackson
from the album Bad (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's song of the day is by the proclaimed "King of Pop", Michael Jackson, whose seventh studio album Bad had already landed a pair of #1 pop hits in America with "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" and "Bad". The third single from the set, "The Way You Make Me Feel", was a rhythmic shuffler in the vein of his previous album's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", but more laid-back and swaying in sound and tempo. Written by Jackson who produced the track with Quincy Jones, the video remains possibly the most fondly remembered of the collection for Bad, though in retrospect the forced macho posturing is a tad bit creepy...

"The Way You Make Me Feel" became the third #1 pop hit in the U.S. from Bad in January of 1988. A week later, the 12" version also topped Billboard's Dance Club Play chart, while on their R&B chart the song closed 1987 out at #1, staying there for four weeks. It also crossed over to the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart at #9. Internationally, "The Way..." made it to #1 in Ireland, claiming the runner-up spot in Belgium, New Zealand, and Spain, #3 in the UK, #4 in Italy, #7 in Canada, and #5 in Australia. In 2006, a re-release sent the song to #1 in Spain, #7 in Italy, and #17 in Britain, while the fan furor after his death in 2009 returned the song to the top-40 in the UK at #34.

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Here's Michael performing the song at the Grammy Awards in 1988...