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Thriller is een album uit 1982 van Michael Jackson. Het was het zesde studioalbum en Jacksons tweede soloalbum bij Epic Records. Het werd uitgebracht op 30 november 1982. Het werd het populairste album van Jackson en zorgde voor internationale roem. In 2007 plaatste de National Association of Recording Merchandisers en de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame het album op de derde plaats van hun "Definitive 200" lijst, een compilatie waarvan wordt gedacht dat ze de beste albums aller tijden bevat. Uit het album kwamen zeven singles voort. Dit was tevens ongebruikelijk voor die tijd, waarbij meestal maar twee tot drie singles werden uitgegeven per album. Op drie van de zeven singles (The Girl Is Mine, Billie Jean en Thriller) verscheen als B-kant Can't Get Outta The Rain, een Off the Wall-outtake. Het album is in meerdere opzichten een mijlpaal in de popgeschiedenis. Het was in Nederland het bestverkochte album van 1983.

Thriller is the sixth studio album by the American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released on November 29, 1982, by Epic Records. It was produced by Quincy Jones, who previously worked with Jackson on his album Off the Wall (1979). With the ongoing backlash against disco music at the time, he moved in a new musical direction, resulting in a mix of pop, post-disco, rock, funk, synth-pop, and R&B sounds, and darker themes; Jackson wanted to create an album where "every song was a killer". Paul McCartney is the first credited appearance of a featured artist on a Jackson album. Recording took place from April to November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, with a budget of $750,000.

Upon its release, Thriller was lauded by critics. It was Jackson's first number-one album on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart, where it spent a record 37 non-consecutive weeks at number one, from February 26, 1983, to April 14, 1984. Seven singles were released: "The Girl Is Mine", "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", "Human Nature", "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)", and "Thriller". They all reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, setting a record for the most top 10 singles from an album, with "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" reaching number one. Following Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean" in the Motown 25 television special, where he debuted his signature moonwalk dance, the album began selling one million copies per week. Sales doubled after the release of the "Thriller" music video on MTV in December 1983.

By 1984, Thriller had sold 32 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling album of all time. It was the best-selling album of 1983 worldwide, and in 1984 became the first to become the best-selling in the United States for two years. It set industry standards, with its songs, music videos, and promotional strategies influencing artists, record labels, producers, marketers and choreographers. The success gave Jackson an unprecedented level of cultural significance for a black American, breaking racial barriers in popular music, earning him regular airplay on MTV and leading to a meeting with US President Ronald Reagan at the White House. Thriller was among the first albums to use music videos as promotional tools; the videos for "Billie Jean", "Beat It" and "Thriller" are credited for transforming music videos into a serious art form.

Thriller remains the best-selling album of all time, having sold an estimated 70 million copies worldwide. It is the best selling non-compilation album and second-best-selling album overall in the United States, and was certified 34× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2021. Thriller is frequently included in lists of the greatest albums of all time and continues to be recognized as an important event in American culture. It won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for "Beat It". Jackson also won a record-breaking eight American Music Awards at the 1984 American Music Awards, including the Merit. In 2008, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant recordings".