When Sean Kingston released his 2011 song “Beat It,” he faced an uphill battle. The title of the track, so closely tied to Michael Jackson‘s iconic 1982 hit “Beat It” from his album Thriller, was ...

Michael Jackson's "Beat It" music video has reached more than a billion views on YouTube, putting it into the elite "Billion-View Club" According to the online video sharing and social media app, the ...

In a recent American Songwriter article, we compared the similarities of Jason Aldean’s controversial single “Try That In A Small Town” to one of pop music’s most celebrated songs in history—Michael ...

Eddie Van Halen considered hanging up when producer Quincy Jones called to ask if he'd perform the now-famous solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It." Assuming that it was all a prank, Van Halen ...