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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Criminally overshadowed? Well, if you judge it up against Thriller and the subsequent couple of albums after, then ya. But on it's own it's far from overshadowed from a commercial aspect (commercial aspect added for Frown's benefit)
Off The Wall
- 8x platinum in the USA
- 20 million units sold worldwide
- ranked 68th in Rolling Stone's top 500
- was the first MJ album to have 4 singles peak in the top 10
- inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
- MJ won a Grammy for best R&B vocal performance
Any artist would give anything to have a single album with that sort of pedigree.
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for the Statistics! Nicely done
However, I think Off The Wall is underrated "musically" by the general public (outside hardcore R&B circles). Off The Wall is also never propped up like Thriller and BAD is. When people think of MJ at his best they usually think of those albums and Off The Wall is hardly mentioned. I am not saying that it was not successful but it is not as appreciated compared to Michael's other works.