The Tony-nominated performer will lead the cast of “MJ the Musical,” which is scheduled to open next summer. By Michael Paulson The Michael Jackson musical has found its King of Pop. Ephraim Sykes, a limber-legged, scene-stealing, Tony-nominated performer in “Ain’t Too Proud,” will jump from one jukebox musical to another when he stars in “MJ […]

The song returns to the Hot 100 at No. 44.

Halloween yet again sparked sales and streaming gains for several spooky tunes, led by Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” which returns to the Billboard Hot 100 dated Nov. 9 at No. 44.

By  Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton The King of Pop is STILL the king! According to Forbes, Michael Jackson once again tops the list of top-earning dead celebrities of 2019. This is the seventh consecutive year that Jackson, with $60 million, landed on top of Forbes’ list. To determine the highest earner, Forbes calculated monies earned for the months […]

Thriller! San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Dante Pettis celebrates wide-open TD with Michael Jackson dance. This game is streaming live on the Yahoo Sports mobile app, or on FOX Watch the video here.

This Michigan dance teacher is thrilling her school’s student body with a Halloween-inspired flash mob.

Michael Jackson’s 1982 hit “Thriller” has remained popular despite fallout from the abuse allegations made in HBO’s Leaving Neverland documentary By Brianne Tracy Though public perception of Michael Jackson has become even more divisive since the release of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland — which resurfaced sexual abuse claims against Jackson earlier this year — the […]

By Dominic Patten The dance-off over Leaving Neverland is far far from over. Less than a month after HBO lost an attempt to get the multimillion-dollar lawsuit from the estate of Michael Jackson against the Emmy-winning documentary tossed out, and saw a federal judge shift the whole matter towards arbitration, the AT&T-owned premium cabler kicked […]

Those who were hoping that Michael Jackson would be canceled didn’t take into account his popularity on streaming services. As Billboard notes, following the release of the controversial HBO documentary Leaving Neverland –– in which two men accused Michael of abusing them as children — radio stations in Canada and New Zealand pulled Michael’s music […]

By Gene Maddaus Update, 5 p.m. Sept. 20: Wu has adopted the tentative ruling as his final ruling. A status conference has been set for Oct. 3, and an appeal is expected. A federal judge is leaning towards granting the Michael Jackson estate’s move to take HBO to arbitration in its dispute over the documentary […]

Leaving Neverland took home an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at the Creative Arts Emmys. The four-hour presentation focused on former child stars Wade Robson and James Safechuck’s sexual assault and molestation allegations against the late Michael Jackson.

Since airing on HBO in March, Leaving Neverland has been both celebrated for highlighting abuse and slammed for overlooking inaccuracies.