Michael Jackson hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with his hit single “Dirty Diana” on July 2, 1988. The track was released as part of Michael’s seventh studio album “Bad” and became his fifth consecutive single to hit the top of the chart. When “Dirty Diana” grabbed the top spot, it dethroned Debbie Gibson’s “Foolish Beat.” The track held at number one for one week before it was succeeded by Cheap Trick’s “The Flame.” Michael penned the track about his experience with groupies throughout his career. In his autobiography, he recalls encountering willing women even as a young boy with the Jackson Five, writing: “I was around six and she was one of those stripteasers, and she would take her drawers off and a man would come and they’d start doing — aw, man, she was too funky.”