Dangerous (album)

Dangerous
Michael Jackson studio album
Publication (s)	November 26, 1991
admission	June 25, 1990 - October 29, 1991
Label (s)	Epic Records
Format (s)	CD , 2 LPs , MC , MD
Genre (s)	Pop , Rock, R'n'B , New Jack Swing
Title (number)	14th
running time	76:58
production	Michael Jackson , Teddy Riley, Bill Bottrell
Studio (s)	Ocean Way Studios, Record One Studios (USA)
chronology Bathroom (1987) Dangerous HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book I (1995)
Single releases November 8, 1991 Black or White January 14, 1992 Remember the time April 18, 1992 In the Closet July 13, 1992 Who Is It September 6, 1992 Jam November 11, 1992 Heal the World February 10, 1993 Give In to Me June 24, 1993 Will you be there December 6, 1993 Gone Too Soon

Dangerous ( Engl. For " Dangerous ") is the eighth studio album by American pop singer Michael Jackson . It was released on November 26, 1991 by Epic Records and wasthe first Jackson album since 1975 that was not produced with Quincy Jones . It has been sold over 32 million times.

background

Prior to Dangerous , Jackson aimed for a remake of his hugely successful Thriller album with Bad . But since Bad could not really build on the commercial success of Thriller , Jackson separated from his long-time producer Quincy Jones and instead turned to new influences.

Dangerous is one of the music styles of modern R&B , hip-hop and New Jack Swing , which is considered to be the invention of Teddy Riley - main producer of Dangerous . In contrast to Jones, producer Riley also worked as a songwriter on the songs of Dangerous .

Commercial win

Internationally, sales are over 32 million, including 7 million in the USA and 2 million in Germany. In the US, Dangerous sold seven million times in less than two months, breaking its own record with a bathroom , which hit the seven million mark in four months. In terms of sales, Dangerous is in the top 3 of Jackson's most successful albums (along with Thriller and Bad ). In the UK, Jackson achieved more top ten hits with this album than any of his others, namely seven.

Track list

1. Jam (feat. Heavy D ) (Michael Jackson) - 5:38
2. Why You Wanna Trip on Me (Teddy Riley, Bernard Belle) - 5:24
3. In the Closet (feat.Princess Stéphanie von Monaco) (Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley) - 6:31
4. She Drives Me Wild (feat.Wreckx-n-Effect) (Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley) - 3:41
5. Remember the Time (Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley, Bernard Bell) - 3:59
6. Can't Let Her Get Away (Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley) - 4:58
7. Heal the World (Michael Jackson) - 6:24
8. Black or White (feat. LTB) (Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell) - 4:16
9. Who Is It (Michael Jackson) - 6:34
10. Give In to Me (feat. Slash ) (Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell) - 5:29
11. Will You Be There (Theme from Free Willy ) (Michael Jackson) - 7:40
12. Keep the Faith (feat. The Andraé Crouch Singers) (Glen Ballard, Siedah Garrett, Michael Jackson) - 5:57
13. Gone Too Soon (Larry Grossman, Buz Kohan) - 3:22
14. Dangerous (Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell, Teddy Riley) - 7:00

Chart placements

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1991	Dangerous	DE1 (132 weeks) DE	AT2 (61 weeks) AT	CH1 (40 weeks) CH	UK1 (102 weeks) UK	US1 (119 weeks) US	First published: November 26, 1991 Sales: + 32,000,000

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, , Placements, weeks, awards, comments)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1991	Black or White	DE2 gold (34 weeks)DE	AT2 (22 weeks) AT	CH1 (29 weeks) CH	UK1 silver (15 weeks)UK	US1 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US
1992	Remember the time	DE8 (24 weeks) DE	AT16 (12 weeks) AT	CH4 (19 weeks) CH	UK3 (10 weeks) UK	US3 platinum (20 weeks)US
	In the Closet	DE15 (22 weeks) DE	AT23 (2 weeks) AT	CH25 (3 weeks) CH	UK8 (8 weeks) UK	US6th gold (20 weeks)US
	Who Is It	DE9 (11 weeks) DE	AT5 (8 weeks) AT	CH14 (14 weeks) CH	UK10 (7 weeks) UK	US14 (18 weeks) US
	Jam	DE18 (19 weeks) DE	AT28 (3 weeks) AT	CH22 (4 weeks) CH	UK13 (6 weeks) UK	US26 (14 weeks) US	(with Heavy D )
	Heal the World	DE3 gold (37 weeks)DE	AT4 (21 weeks) AT	CH5 (27 weeks) CH	UK2 gold (18 weeks)UK	US27 (20 weeks) US
1993	Give In to Me	DE10 (19 weeks) DE	AT12 (8 weeks) AT	CH7 (16 weeks) CH	UK2 (10 weeks) UK	-	(with slash )
	Will you be there	DE12 (30 weeks) DE	AT11 (17 weeks) AT	CH3 (21 weeks) CH	UK9 (9 weeks) UK	US7 (20 weeks) US
	Gone Too Soon	DE45 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH33 (4 weeks) CH	UK33 (5 weeks) UK	-
1994	Dangerous	DE99 (1 week) DE	-	CH78 (1 week) CH	-	-	Promo single

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	10 × platinum	700,000
Brazil (PMB)	gold	100,000
Germany (BVMI)	4 × platinum	2,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	platinum	61,000
France (SNEP)	diamond	1,000,000
Japan (RIAJ)	2 × platinum	400,000
Canada (MC)	6 × platinum	600,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)	5 × gold	600,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	6 × platinum	90,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	3 × platinum	300,000
Austria (IFPI)	4 × platinum	200,000
Sweden (IFPI)	3 × platinum	300,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	5 × platinum	250,000
Spain (Promusicae)	6 × platinum	600,000
Hungary (MAHASZ)	platinum	20,000
United States (RIAA)	8 × platinum	8,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	6 × platinum	1,800,000
All in all	2 × gold 68 × platinum 1 × diamond	17,121,000

Main article: Michael Jackson / Music Sales Awards

Singles

The following nine singles were released from Dangerous :

• November 1991 - Black or White
• January 1992 - Remember the Time
• April 1992 - In the Closet
• July 1992 - Who Is It (in the US only March 1993)
• September 1992 - Jam (in the USA as early as June 1992)
• November 1992 - Heal the World
• February 1993 - Give In to Me (not in the US)
• June 1993 - Will You Be There
• December 1993 - Gone Too Soon (not in the USA, there only as a promo)

After Bad set another record with five number 1 hits in the US , only the first single took the lead here.

Film music

The album contains two official soundtracks to different films from 1993 and is the only work by a musician to date that has this incident.

• Will You Be There is the theme song from the soundtrack to the film Free Willy by director Simon Wincer , filmed in the United States in 1993 .
• Can't Let Her Get Away is part of the soundtrack to the 1993 American comic film adaptation of Meteor Man by author , director and leading actor Robert Townsend .

Trivia

• Six days before the album was released, on November 20, 1991, an armed gang robbed 30,000 copies of the album at Los Angeles International Airport .
• The title song Dangerous was supposed to be released as a single in the fall of 1993 (end of October, after Will You Be There ), but was not released after all - probably because of the scandal of child abuse with Evan Chandler, which was widely noticed at the time, it was found to be inappropriate for the time. (see Michael Jackson # accusation of child abuse ) It is unusual for a Michael Jackson album that the title song did not appear as a single. The accompanying dance performance, however, has been shown in frequently modified versions and choreographies at many events and concerts since 1993, including Wetten, dass ..? in November 1995.
• The remixes of the single Dangerous were only contributed in 1997 as bonus tracks for the single Blood on the Dance Floor .
• In May 1999 Jackson lost a plagiarism lawsuit against the Italian singer Al Bano because passages from the hit Will You Be There matched Al Bano's song I cigni di Balaka .
• For the introduction to Will You Be There , parts of the Allegro energico, semper ben marcato from the fourth movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony were used.

Dangerous - The Short Films

In 1993, initially on video and in 2001 also on DVD, Dangerous - The Short Films, a compilation containing all music videos, performances and other recordings from the Dangerous years 1991 to 1993, was released. Since 2008 the DVD has also been available in part together with the album Dangerous as a CD / DVD combination.

1. Program introduction
2. Brace Yourself intro
3. Reactions to Black or White
4. Black or White (The Complete Version)
5. Black or White : Behind the Scenes
6. Grammy Legend Award 1993
7. Heal the World at the Superbowl XXVII
8. Remember the Time : Behind the Scenes
9. Remember the time
10. Will you be there
11. In the Closet : Behind the Scenes
12. In the Closet
13. Ryan White
14. Gone Too Soon
15. NAACP Image Awards
16. Jam : Behind the scenes
17. Jam
18. Introduction to Heal the World
19. Heal the World
20. Give In to Me
21. I'll Be There (Pepsi Commercial)
22. Who Is It
23. Dangerous : behind the scenes
24. Dangerous
25. Credits ( Why You Wanna Trip on Me )

See also

• List of the best-selling music albums certified by BVMI in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ release date "Dangerous"
2. ↑ Release date
3. ↑ MTV.com
4. ^ Federal Association of the Music Industry
5. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE / AT / CH / UK / US
6. ↑ www.mtv.com Michael Jackson's Life & Legacy: The Eccentric King Of Pop (1986–1999 ) Article dated July 2, 2009, accessed on August 21, 2014
7. ↑ release date "Who Is It" US
8. ↑ release date "Jam" US
9. ↑ Original soundtrack for the film "Free Willy"
10. ↑ Original soundtrack for the film "Meteor Man"
11. ^ Spiegel-online: Michael Jackson steals from Al Bano , May 12, 1999
12. ↑ Rhein-Zeitung: “Jacko” has to pay a fine of 4,000 marks - Court: The pop star's hit “Will you be there” is a plagiarism , May 12, 1999

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