Michael Jackson — Smooth Criminal - 2012 Remaster

The engine behind Jackson's catalog surge remains the biopic Michael, whose release Michael Jackson World Network calls "the biggest catalog revival ever seen for a legacy artist" — though, as that outlet notes, the film alone doesn't explain the full spread. The 1988 Bad single, in its 25th-anniversary remaster, is broadly present today, tracked across 100 country and platform charts after a fifty-day absence. Built on a stalking 118-BPM pulse and the "Annie, are you OK?" refrain, it long ago crossed one billion streams, per Parade. The Vincent Paterson-choreographed video, with its anti-gravity lean and Fred Astaire fedora, keeps the song visually indelible. Its return this wide suggests the biopic's afterglow is still radiating outward rather than fading.