{"id":118703,"date":"2024-10-30T21:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/30\/michael-jacksons-smooth-criminal-reaches-1-billion-views-on-youtube\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T21:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T21:03:24","slug":"michael-jacksons-smooth-criminal-reaches-1-billion-views-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/30\/michael-jacksons-smooth-criminal-reaches-1-billion-views-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson\u2019s &#8216;Smooth Criminal&#8217; reaches 1 billion views on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-30\/M_MichaelJacksonBad_103024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Legacy Recordings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> video has reached\u00a01 billion views on YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The latest to reach the milestone is the 1988 <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Bad<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> track \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h_D3VFfhvs4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Smooth Criminal<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">,\u201d set in a 1930s gangster club. It\u2019s most known for Jackson and his dancers performing a 45-degree lean, which seems physically impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is the fifth Jackson video to surpass\u00a01 billion views. The others\u00a0are \u201cThriller,\u201d \u201cBeat it,\u201d \u201cBillie Jean\u201d and \u201cThey Don\u2019t Care About Us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSmooth Criminal\u201d\u00a0is one of six top 10 singles off <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Bad;<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> it\u00a0peaked\u00a0at #7 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100. The other five singles from the album\u00a0\u2014 &#8220;I Just Can&#8217;t Stop Loving You,&#8221; &#8220;Bad,&#8221; &#8220;The Way You Make Me Feel,&#8221; &#8220;Man in the Mirror&#8221; and &#8220;Dirty Diana&#8221;\u00a0\u2014 all went to #1.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h_D3VFfhvs4\" title=\"Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (Official Video)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy Recordings Another Michael Jackson video has reached\u00a01 billion views on YouTube. The latest to reach the milestone is the 1988 Bad track \u201cSmooth Criminal,\u201d set in a 1930s gangster club. It\u2019s most known for Jackson and his dancers performing a 45-degree lean, which seems physically impossible. This is the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/30\/michael-jacksons-smooth-criminal-reaches-1-billion-views-on-youtube\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,430,427,428,429],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}