Michael Jackson scored his fourth No. 1 hit as a solo artist when “Billie Jean” topped the Billboard Hot 100 on March 5, 1983 ...

There's too many good songs from 1983 to count, but here are some of the absolute staples, for teens now and then.

MTV came to be in the year 1981. Many a Gen Xer remembers August 1 of that year, when the broadcasting network first aired its plentiful music videos to the world. It’s no surprise that MTV became an ...

You watch a 14-minute music video and suddenly the way music appears on television feels different forever. The debut of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" on MTV in 1983 fused cinematic storytelling, ...

With his game-changing Thriller album, its peerless run of singles and videos and a performance style never seen before, Michael Jackson set the MTV-era standard for pop stardom in 1983. By Andrew ...

In 1983, MTV ruled, and ZZ Top, a band from Texas that had been around since the late '60s, had somehow managed to plug into the video revolution with stunning results. Videos for songs such as "Gimme ...