"Man In The Mirror" was the fourth consecutive number-one single for Jackson's Bad in the United States. The single debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #48 on February 6, 1988, and reached #1 kwa its eighth week on the chart, on March 26, 1988, where it remained for two weeks. It originally peaked at #21 in the United Kingdom in 1988. However, following Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, "Man in the Mirror" re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 11, and the following week the song peaked at #2, held off kwa La Roux. The chart had also contained over 12 Michael Jackson songs in the juu 40. This song had been at juu 100 for 15 consecutive weeks in this chart. In Australia the song originally charted at 39. After the singer's death the song re-entered the chart and peaked at number 8, much higher than its original release. It was also the juu single in iTunes downloads in the U.S. and the U.K.[2]
One of the video is a notable departure from Jackson's other video mainly because Jackson himself does not appear in the video (aside from a brief clip toward the end of the video in which he can be seen donning a red koti, jacket and standing in a large crowd). Instead, it featured a montage of footage from various major news events such as nuclear explosions, the John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy assassinations, the Iranian hostage crisis, Live Aid, Farm Aid, and notable people including Martin Luther King, Raúl Alfonsín, Lech Wałęsa, Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Mahatma Gandhi, Anwar El Sadat, Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Rosa Parks, Ronald Reagan, Pieter Willem Botha, Muammar al-Gaddafi, and Adolf Hitler.[4] An alternate video was included at the beginning of his film Moonwalker with footage of several live performances of the song during the Bad World Tour.
The PCM Stereo muziki video version of this song was includes on muziki video compilation Number Ones and Michael Jackson's Vision.