2008: 25th anniversary of Thriller

Main article: Thriller 25

On February 11, 2008, Jackson issued a 25th anniversary edition of his top-selling album Thriller called Thriller 25. It is a double disc album; disc one contains the original nine tracks from "Thriller", five remixed "Thriller" tracks, a song originally recorded in the Thriller era called "For All Time", a voice over by Vincent Price and featured will.i.am, Fergie, Kanye West, and Akon, with single releases alongside the album.^[106] Disc two is a DVD which contains the three music videos from "Thriller" and Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean" at Motown 25. Internationally, "The Girl Is Mine 2008" was released as a single, while in the United States, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008" was the first single, both of which were moderately successful.

Thriller 25 was a commercial success, having done particularly well as a re-issue, peaking at number one in eight countries, Europe and the United World Chart. It peaked at #2 in the United States, #3 in the United Kingdom and reached the Top 10 in over thirty national charts. Thriller 25 spent three weeks at #1 in France,^[107] two weeks at number one on the "United World Chart", Argentina and Belgium. It has been certified gold in 11 countries, including the United Kingdom. In Poland, on release day, the album was certified gold, reaching #6 on the charts and is Jackson's highest charting album in Norway.^[108] In France, Thriller 25 received a 2x gold certification, and in Poland it was certified platinum.^[109][110]

In the United States, Thriller 25 was the second best-selling album of its release week, selling 166,000 copies, just 14,000 short of reaching the number one position. It was ineligible for the Billboard 200 chart as a re-release but entered the Pop Catalog Charts at number one, where it stayed for nine non-consecutive weeks and had the best sales on that chart since December 1996.^{[111][112][113]} This was Jackson's best launch since Invincible in 2001, with 500,000 copies in the US^[114] and 1.8 million copies sold in 12 weeks.^[115]