The first single from Jackson's "Bad" album is also its weakest one. Co-written by Jackson and Lionel Richie, "We Are the World" may have raised more than $75 million for the USA for Africa organization, but it's less a real song than a star-studded and hopelessly overblown PSA and doesn't deserve to be counted as an official Michael Jackson No. Where to start with "We Are the World," the biggest charity single of all time, which recruited 46 singers to contribute a few words each to raise funds to combat poverty in Africa. 1, and judge for yourself which were the best – and worst – of his most-popular songs. 29, revisit Jackson’s 14 songs that reached No. In honor of what would’ve been Jackson’s 60th birthday on Aug. 1, while a good number of arguably lesser singles managed to reach the Billboard Hot 100’s peak. (Pretty Young Thing),” “Got to Be There,” “Smooth Criminal” and his “Scream” collaboration with sister Janet Jackson all failed to reach No. Bona fide classics such as “Thriller,” "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin,’ ” "P.Y.T. Yet for all his record-holding achievements, listeners may be surprised which of Jackson’s singles hit No.
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