Michael Jackson — Heal the World

A soft-pop ballad from Dangerous is broadly charting today, appearing across 28 country and platform charts as part of a wholesale return of Jackson's catalog to streaming. The driver is the Michael biopic, whose release has pushed the singer to number one on Chartmetric's trending artists and 102.1 million Spotify monthly listeners, per Chartmetric. A Sony advisory attorney called the film "a two-hour ad designed to send audiences straight to streaming platforms," Kyunghyang Shinmun reported. Heal the World anchored Jackson's Super Bowl XXVII halftime show in 1993, performed with thousands of children on stage before 133.4 million viewers, according to Andscape. Its present spike is biopic-driven nostalgia, the same wave lifting nearly every track in the catalog.