NPR gave The New Yorker culture writer Kelefa Sanneh the challenge of narrowing down Michael Jackson's musical legacy to three songs. Sanneh explains why he picked "Wanna Be Starting Something ...

Scroll through our gallery of Michael Jackson’s 25 best songs above. This list is comprised of his work as a solo artist, not as part of The Jackson 5.

Michael Jackson covered The Beatles’ “Come Together” in the 1990s and made it all his own. Interestingly, the original song was inspired by the work of a 1950s superstar.

After nearly 35 years, brand-new Michael Jackson songs have been discovered on cassette tapes. Here's everything we know about these songs.

[RELATED: 5 of Michael Jackson’s Most Iconic Music Videos] But when it comes to the proof of Jackson’s prowess, the evidence is in his number of No. 1 songs as a solo artist.

In a career spanning more than four decades, Michael Jackson wrote more than 150 songs and produced a number of artists across genres. Videos by American Songwriter Already penning several songs ...