Man in the Mirror was also the top single in iTunes downloads in the US and the UK. It has sold 567,280 copies in the UK as of January 2016. Man in the Mirror "Man in the Mirror" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson, written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett and produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. It peaked at number 1 in the United States when released in January 1988 as the fourth single from his seventh solo album, "Bad" (1987). It was nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards. The song topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 for
Mirror Man (Captain Beefheart album) 1971. The record sleeve features an erroneous claim that it had been "recorded one night in Los Angeles in 1965". The album is dominated by three long, blues-rooted jams featuring uncharacteristically sparse lyrical accompaniment from Beefheart. A fourth tune, the eight-minute "Kandy Korn", is an earlier version of a track that appears on "Strictly Personal". In 1999, Buddha Records issued an expanded version of the album entitled "The Mirror Man Sessions", which features five additional tracks taken from the abandoned tapes. When the band went into the studio in late 1967 to record the follow-up to their debut album "Safe