Overview
- Billboard will list “Chicago” at No. 30 on the June 6 Hot 100, giving Michael Jackson at least one Hot 100 entry in every decade from the 1970s through the 2020s.
- Billboard said the surge came almost entirely from 10.7 million U.S. official, chart-eligible streams for the tracking week May 22–28 as measured by Luminate.
- The track first surfaced in Jackson’s 2001 Invincible sessions, was reworked for the 2014 posthumous album Xscape by producers including Timbaland, and had not previously charted.
- “Chicago”’s rise followed a 2023 TikTok sped-up trend and the spring box-office success of the biopic Michael, which together drove renewed listening that also sent several classic Jackson songs back onto the Hot 100.
- The episode highlights how archival production choices, social platforms and big media moments can revive non-single material and may prompt more catalog reissues, posthumous edits, and streaming-driven chart moves.