Bad 25 debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums chart and in Italy, and has since been certified Gold in Poland.

[5] Announced in May 2012 by the Michael Jackson Company LLC, various formats of Bad 25 were released simultaneously on September 18, 2012.

Three songs, "Streetwalker", "Fly Away" and "Todo Mi Amor Eres Tú" (the Spanish version of "I Just Can't Stop Loving You") appeared on Bad: Special Edition in 2001.

Bad 25 is the ninth album released by Sony and Motown since Michael Jackson's death on June 25, 2009.

[6] The documentary was shown at the 69th Venice International Film Festival from August 29 to September 8, 2012, and premiered (in a edited version) on ABC on November 22, 2012.

On September 18, 2012, Sony Music and the Estate of Michael Jackson in partnership with BET broadcast a two-hour TV special titled Bad 25: The Short Films of Michael Jackson, which shows the short films from Bad, which like Thriller revolutionized the industry, and also features interviews with fans, journalists and critics.

The song has been called a "beautiful solo piano and vocal piece" by Jackson's longtime engineer Bruce Swedien.

[25] The Los Angeles Times reacted positively to the product; however, they were averse to the new remixes, especially collaboration with Nero, Pitbull and Afrojack.

[26] Evan Sawdey gave the release 7/10, criticizing Afrojack as "outright trash", and saying of "Speed Demon": "it ends up sounding more like a Nero song with MJ's vocals than it does a genuine Michael Jackson remix".

[27] Supajam simply referred to the remix as a disgrace,[28] while Michael Cragg said "the world's worst rapper, Pitbull.

He lazily croaks his way through two verses, spouting such lines as "I'm so out of this planet I speak a third language called that moon talk, in four years catch me with a billion doing that moonwalk".