text:  He was something, huh? Oh, boy. Man. So, of course, this is Thriller by Michael Jackson, released in 1984 on his album Thriller. Mm-hmm. All right. And, of course, the song keeps coming back on the charts because Halloween, it tends to get super popular again. Here is your statement. Okay. David Cook, who won season 11 of American Idol, that was in 2012, performed an acoustic version of this song during his audition.