Dangerous is an album released by singer-songwriter Michael Jackson in November 1991. In March of 1991, Michael Jackson signed an all new 15 year, 6 album deal with Sony; that November he delivered his first - Dangerous. Jackson ended his association with Quincy Jones, and enlisted the producing talents of new jack swing inventor Teddy Riley. The RIAA certified Dangerous at 7x Platinum, internationally the album has sold an estimated 30 million copies, tying it with Bad as the second best-selling album of Jackson's career. The album spawned seven top ten hit single's in the UK - Jackson's best in the UK. The album gained a total of 73x Platinum certifications throughout the world and became the top selling New jack swing album of all time. The major hits included "Black or White", "Remember the Time", "In the Closet", "Heal the World", "Who Is It", "Jam", and "Will You Be There". Nine songs from the album were released as singles around the world.
The album cover was designed by Mark Ryden. Jackson supported the album with the Dangerous World Tour, of which he donated all the money to his Heal The World Foundation of the 90s, inspired by his hit song, "Heal The World". The first printing of the album was released as a large box with a picture of Michael Jackson's eyes, which folded open to reveal the normal cover, in pop-up card, with the CD, and booklet in the bottom. Dangerous was heavily anticipated, as highlighted by an incident at the Los Angeles International Airport that witnessed a group of armed robbers stealing 30,000 copies of the new album before its official release.
Jackson would not release another full-length album of only all new songs for 10 years, with Invincible in 2001. HIStory, released in 1995, did contain a full disc of new material, but was only available in a double-disc set, the first CD containing previous hits.
A Special Edition of the album appeared in 2001. The Special Edition was digitally remastered and included a slipcase, revised artwork and previously unseen photos. Because of the constraints of Dangerous' running time, previously unreleased songs were not included, however many of them were eventually leaked onto the internet along with various demos of other tracks that appeared on the album. In 2004, some of these leaked tracks were officially released on Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection (namely the Dangerous Demo and Monkey Business).