Michael Jackson - "Beat It"

This is Michael Jackson's big, huge breakout video, "Beat It". Before this video, black artists were denied play on MTV. Michael Jackson's video and song were so hot, MTV had to put it on. It just so happened that Michael was about to really come into his own big-time as an artist. Michael was already a huge star with hundreds of songs and many videos with the Jacksons before this video. He hit such a big-time with Quincy Jones producing that no single artist would ever sell as many albums as "Thriller" (the album that this song came from) did.