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Ben was the second full-length solo album by teenage pop-soul music phenomenon Michael Jackson. Released in August 1972, seven months after his auspicious debut as a soloist, Got to Be There
, the album showcased a Jackson in vocal and artistic growth. A number of the songs on the album are ballads, a genre which was rare in the main Jackson 5 repertoire, but would become a staple of Michael Jackson's over the course of his four-decade solo career.

The album's title track helped separate Jackson from his family and his pop music contemporaries convincing an audience he could belt out a ballad, even though the song was dedicated to a killer rat, that was eulogized in the 1972 film that gives the album its name. However, no one noticed, as the song became the first of Jackson's thirteen #1 solo hit singles, and garnered both a Golden Globe award win and an Academy Award nomination. The album peaked at #5 Pop and #4 R&B upon its release.

Track listing

#"Ben" (Black/Scharf) #"The Greatest Show on Earth" (Larson/Marcellino) #"People Make the World Go Round" (Bell/Creed) #"We've Got a Good Thing Going" (Holland/Holland) #"Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (Adams/Hampton) #"My Girl" (Robinson/White) #"What Goes Around Comes Around" #"In Our Small Way" (Yerdi/Yarian) #"Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (Cosby/Moy/Wonder) #"You Can Cry On My Shoulder" (Gordy) #"The Wheels on da Bus go 'Round 'n' 'Round" (live version)

Charted Hit

"Ben" - #1 Pop Singles Chart; #5 Soul Singles Chart

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