Michael Jacksons album "Thriller" was released in the early 80s. It took nearly five years before he released another album which was& ?

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"Bad" is the seventh studio album by Michael Jackson. It was released on August 31, 1987, nearly five years after Jackson's previous studio album," Thriller". Jackson composed nine of the album's eleven tracks and received co-producer credit for the entire album. Five of the album's singles, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror" and "Dirty Diana", reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.