Just now, mrpopquiz said:

No 7 is not really a contender is it Jack ?!

Shh gotta make it more dramatic havent you 🤣🤣

Just now, Jason said:

Let's not talk about the Nextflix film please!

What Netflix film?

Hurrah for Go!

Not sure why this was mentioned as a contender for no. 1 instead of Billy Jean?

Yes let’s goooo!!

Omg yes at this climb into the top 10!

Keep going

Just now, Jason said:

Let's not talk about the Nextflix film please!

Not sure We dont talk about Apex has the same ring to it as We dont talk about bruno 🤣🤣

Yep, another well deserved top ten hit - albeit uncredited - for Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest via this!

Just now, IdentFan101 said:

Not sure why this was mentioned as a contender for no. 1 instead of Billy Jean?

Radio 1 don't want to glorify him?

One of the best reactivated older hits in the last few years. Unbelievable that it didn't make the top 40 on release. Great to see Chemical Brothers back in the top ten after so long.

Their first top 10 hit in nearly 20 years!

06 | | 3rd week

Michael Jackson

Human Nature

Album track from Thriller

Released: 29th November 1982

Label: Epic

Chart Statistics

NE (11/07/2009) | 90-62-x

RE (21/05/2026) | 6

Sales: 400,000+

Certification: Gold

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

17 Sales

25 Audio Streaming

41 Video Streaming

Video

Biography

When it comes to growing up in public, the man known worldwide as the King of Pop wrote the book. Born in Gary, IN, in 1958, Michael Jackson became the biggest-selling, most broadly beloved singer on the planet, but when he started his career, he was just the kid trying to catch up with his big brothers. In 1964 he started playing percussion in The Jackson Brothers, but by the time they became the Jackson 5 the following year, little Michael was already contributing lead vocals. The group became a Motown hit machine in 1970 with pop-soul smashes like “ABC,” “The Love You Save,” and “I’ll Be There.” Michael’s undeniable vocal charisma made a solo career inevitable, and his began in 1971. He scored a few major hits early on, but he really exploded with 1979’s Off the Wall, a funk-pop-disco marvel that marked Jackson’s full musical maturation. Its 1982 follow-up, Thriller, became a full-blown international phenomenon with mega-singles including “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” and the title track, literally becoming the best-selling album ever. Following it wasn’t easy, but Jackson managed to keep his vision alive through four more albums and several more hits over the next two decades, until his passing in 2009. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

1972 05 Got To Be There -1-

1972 03 Rockin' Robin -2-

1972 08 Ain't No Sunshine -3-

1972 07 Ben -1-

1978 45 Ease On Down The Road (Diana Ross & Michael Jackson)

1979 03 Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough -1- MILLIONAIRE

1979 07 Off The Wall -2-

1980 07 Rock With You -3- MILLIONAIRE

1980 03 She's Out Of My Life -4-

1980 41 Girlfriend -5-

1981 01 One Day In Your Life -1-

1981 46 We're Almost There -2-

1982 08 The Girl Is Mine (Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney) -1-

1983 01 Billie Jean -2- MILLIONAIRE

1983 03 Beat It -3- MILLIONAIRE

1983 08 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' -4-

1983 52 Happy -1-

1983 02 Say Say Say (Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson)

1983 09 Thriller -5- MILLIONAIRE

1984 11 P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) -6-

1984 07 Farewell My Summer Love -1-

1984 33 Girl You're So Together -2-

1987 01 I Just Can't Stop Loving You (Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett) -1-

1987 03 Bad -2- MILLIONAIRE

1987 03 The Way You Make Me Feel -3- MILLIONAIRE

1988 02 Man In The Mirror -4 MILLIONAIRE

1988 08 I Want You Back (Michael Jackson with The Jackson 5)

1988 37 Get It (Stevie Wonder & Michael Jackson)

1988 04 Dirty Diana -5-

1988 15 Another Part Of Me -6-

1988 08 Smooth Criminal -7- MILLIONAIRE

1989 02 Leave Me Alone -8-

1989 13 Liberian Girl -9-

1991 01 Black Or White -1- MILLIONAIRE

1992 03 Remember The Time -2-

1992 08 In The Closet (Michael Jackson & Mystery Girl) -3-

1992 10 Who Is It -4-

1992 13 Jam -5-

1992 02 Heal The World -6-

1993 02 Give In To Me -7-

1993 09 Will You Be There -8-

1993 33 Gone Too Soon -9-

1995 03 Scream (Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson) -1-

1995 01 You Are Not Alone -2-

1995 01 Earth Song -3- MILLION SELLER

1996 04 They Don't Care About Us -4-

1996 02 Why (3T feat. Michael Jackson)

1996 04 Stranger In Moscow -5-

1997 01 Blood On The Dance Floor -1-

1997 05 HIStory / Ghosts -2-

2001 02 You Rock My World -1-

2001 25 Cry -2-

2003 05 One More Chance -1-

2008 32 The Girl Is Mine 2008 (with will.i.am) -1-

2008 69 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008 (with Akon) -2-

2008 96 Thriller Megamix -AT-

2009 06 Human Nature -AT-

2009 74 Smile -AT-

2010 10 Hold My Hand (with Akon) -1-

2014 08 Love Never Felt So Good (Michael Jackson & Justin Timberlake) -1-

2014 98 Slave To The Rhythm -AT-

2018 02 Don't Matter To Me (Drake feat. Michael Jackson)

7 x #1 | 29 x Top 5 | 45 x Top 10 | 49 x Top 20 | 54 x Top 40 | 62 x Top 100

Social Media

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MICHAEL BINGO ACHIEVED! Hope this is its peak.

Looks like "Human Nature" will never be added to @gasman449's thread of songs going Platinum despite never being top 40

Yay at this getting a top 10 peak!

I think that's MJ's top 10 bingo card reaching a full house (for now)?

This is by far my favourite Michael Jackson song so amazing to see it in the top 10!

Human Nature finally a top 40 chart hit

Oh I was expecting this to overtake 'drop dead'. MJ bingo as it stands!

Also a 45th Top 10 hit (in 5th place overall, two more than Ed Sheeran, two less than Drake) and a 6th from the Thriller album, of which 4 have been or are in the Top 10 this year or last!

OMG A Michael Jackson new entry in 2026.

So, he is still alive as some psychic people insist on saying

Finally after the release of a long deserved music video, Human Nature gets a Top 10 appearance... It's not the first time we heard it in the Top 10, because it was sampled in the big hit remix of Right Here by SWV which made number 3 in September 1993.