In March 1984, “Thriller” reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 — becoming the seventh top 10 hit on Michael Jackson‘s blockbuster album of the same name, a then-record on the chart. On this week’s Hot 100 (dated Nov. 15), the song reaches the top 10 again for the first time since that run, bounding 32-10.

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The reason for the 40-plus-year-old song flying up the chart is simple: It returns annually around this time of year, having re-charted on the Hot 100 in 11 of the last 13 Halloween seasons (dating back to 2013), and in every such season since

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