The Way You Make Me Feel

"The Way You Make Me Feel"
Single by Michael Jackson
from the album Bad
B-side	"The Way You Make Me Feel" (instrumental)
Released	November 9, 1987 (1987-11-09)
Recorded	1987[1]
Studio	Westlake Recording Studios (studio D), Los Angeles[1]
Genre	Pop R&B
Length	4:58 (album/video version) 4:26 (single version)
Label	Epic CBS
Songwriter(s)	Michael Jackson
Producer(s)	Quincy Jones Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson singles chronology
"Twenty-Five Miles" (1987) "The Way You Make Me Feel" (1987) "Man in the Mirror" (1988)
Music video
"The Way You Make Me Feel" on YouTube
Audio sample
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"The Way You Make Me Feel" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released by Epic Records on November 9, 1987, as the third single from his seventh studio album, Bad. It was written and composed by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones and Jackson.

The song received positive reviews from contemporary critics. "The Way You Make Me Feel" became Bad's third consecutive single to peak at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and charted mainly within the top ten and twenty internationally. A music video for the song was released at the time, showing Jackson pursuing and dancing with model Tatiana Thumbtzen.

Aside from appearing on Bad, "The Way You Make Me Feel" has also been featured on the first disc of Jackson's compilation album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I in 1995, and on others like Number Ones in 2003, The Ultimate Collection in 2004, The Essential Michael Jackson in 2005, or This Is It in 2009. "The Way You Make Me Feel" has been covered by multiple recording artists.

The song has been performed on all of Jackson's world concert tours as a solo artist and was planned to have been performed during the This Is It concerts from 2009 to 2010. Notable live performances of the song by Jackson include at the 30th Grammy Awards (1988).