DEF: Michael Jackson “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin'”

Michael Jackson‘s Thriller album produced seven Top 10 singles, starting with “The Girl Is Mine” in early 1983 and ending with “Thriller” in the spring of 1984. Exactly in the middle of that string of hits, the fourth Top 10 single from the album was “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” which on this date in 1983 climbed to a peak position of number 5, where it would spend two weeks. “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin'” by Michael Jackson is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.