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Genre confusion

Why is the genre listed here as regular not contemporary R&B? The sources used could easily indicate R&B in the contemporary form, and on the Wikipedias for many individual songs on the album(such as ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ and ‘I Just Can’t Start Loving You’), they’re called ‘contemporary R&B’. It doesn’t make sense. 68.134.71.39 (talk) 17:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccurate sales

The claim that the album "Bad" has sold 25 million copies is inaccurate. The sources that cite this are from the 1990s, when it did indeed reach 25 million sales. Today, however, the sale number has increased to 35 million, according to many sources. Slowvans321 (talk) 15:59, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fix/done. --Apoxyomenus (talk) 17:57, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stop adding higher numbers. The media consensus is 35 million. Binksternet (talk) 19:23, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Bad (album)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Bad (album)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "EW":

From Bad 25: Ray Rahman (September 5, 2012). "Bad 25 - review - Michael Jackson". EW.com. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
From Teenage Dream: Greenblatt, Leah (August 11, 2010). "Teenage Dream". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved November 21, 2023.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT ⚡ 04:39, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]