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Michael Jackson’s ‘Chicago’ rises one spot to No. 18 on Billboard Global 200 after biopic release
The track from the 2014 album Xscape reaches a new peak on the Billboard Global 200 and appears on eight Billboard charts after the April release of the biopic Michael.
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Michael Jackson’s “Chicago” rose one spot to No. 18 on the Billboard Global 200 this week, tying “Thriller” as his fifth-highest-charting song on the ranking. The song had been at No. 19 the previous week.
It is the only track from the 2014 posthumous album Xscape to reach the chart, and it was never issued or promoted as a single. “Chicago” also moved to a new peak of No. 32 on the Billboard Global Excl.
U.S. chart, up from No. 35. On that ranking it is Jackson’s sixth-highest-charting track. The song appears on eight Billboard charts in total. It reached new highs on five of them: the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart at No.
16. It holds at No. 4 on the Hot R&B Songs chart. All of Jackson’s highest-charting tracks on the Billboard Global 200 reached their peaks in 2026.
“Billie Jean” hit No. 1 in May, “Beat It” peaked at No. 5, “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” reached No. 11, and “Human Nature” climbed to No. 12. U.S. chart, those same songs peaked at Nos.
2, 5, 11, 13 and 26 respectively, with “Smooth Criminal” also listed at No. 26. The biopic Michael opened in theaters in mid-April 2026. Forbes reported that the film performed strongly at the box office and that Jackson’s catalog, including previously uncharted tracks, began rising on Billboard rankings in the weeks surrounding the release.
