- Who
- Michael Jackson
- What
- 1,720,000 unit(s) sold
- Where
- Mexico ()
- When
Thriller by Michael Jackson (USA, 1958-2009) has sold 1.72 million copies in Mexico since it was released in 1982, according to data supplied by Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON).
Histórico: Banda el Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga - En Vivo (1997), by Banda el Recodo, is the best-selling album by a Mexican act, with 1.45 million copies sold.
Thriller is also the best-selling album in Canada (2.75 million), the Netherlands (830,000), Austria (400,000), Latvia (136,000), the former Yugoslavia (112,500) and Israel (80,000), and it remains the best-selling album in the USA by a solo artist (34 million) as well as the world's most popular release of all time (an estimated 67 million copies sold).
Coincidentally, Mexico also holds the record for the largest Thriller dance, when the Instituto de la Juventud del Gobierno del Distrito Federal organized 13,597 participants paying tribute to the unforgettable choreography in Jackson’s “Thriller” video at Mexico City’s Monumento a la Revolución on 29 August 2009 – just 65 days after the singer’s death.
