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This Is It

Michael Jackson's This Is It (or simply This Is It) is a album that is released by Epic Records on October 2009, This Is It features previously released music, as well as six previously unreleased recordings by Jackson. This Is It was released to coincide with the theatrical release of Michael Jackson's This Is It, a concert film documenting Jackson's rehearsals for his This Is It concert series.

This Is It is the sixth album to be released by Sony and Motown/Universal since Jackson's death in June 2009. The previous five albums are The Collection, Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection, Michael Jackson: The Stripped Mixes, The Definitive Collection and The Remix Suite.

This Is It debuted at number one in fourteen countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Italy and France. Aside from charting at number 11 in Finland, the album peaked within the top 10 of the charts in other nations. This Is It's has been certified Gold, Platinum, and twice-Platinum in multiple countries. The album was the twelfth best selling album of 2009 in the United States and the third best selling album of 2009 based on worldwide sales. The release of the album attracted mixed reviews from critics, with many noting that it was just a cash-in attempt, and not to honor Jackson.

All songs produced by Michael Jackson and John McClain.

Track list:

A:
1. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - 6:03
2. Jam - 5:39

B:
1. They Don't Care About Us - 4:45
2. Human Nature - 4:06
3. Smooth Criminal - 4:17l

C:
1. The Way You Make Me Feel - 4:59
2. Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - 3:54
3. I Just Can't Stop Loving You - 4:12

D:
1. Thriller - 5:57
2. Beat It - 4:18

E:
1. Black Or White - 4:16
2. Earth Song - 6:46

F:
1. Billie Jean - 4:54
2. Man In The Mirror - 5:20

G:
1. This Is It (Album Version) - 3:37
2. This Is It (Orchestra Version) - 4:55

H:
1. She's Out Of My Life (Demo) - 3:19
2. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (Demo) - 5:43
3. Beat It (Demo) - 2:03
4. Planet Earth (Poem)  - 3:14

Record label: Epic/Legacy
Pre Recordings: 2009
Worldwide Sales: more than 300 thousand
Released: 27-10-2009
Series number: 8869761541
Printed: EU

Thriller 25

Thriller 25 is a 25th anniversary special edition reissue of the Michael Jackson album Thriller, the world's best selling album. The prospect of a "second chapter" to Thriller was first publicly discussed on Access Hollywood in late 2006. Jackson said he would discuss the idea with collaborator will.i.am. It was released in Australia on February 8, 2008, then internationally on February 11, 2008 and the following day in the United States.

Thriller 25 was released by Sony BMG's re-issue division, Legacy Recordings. In the United Kingdom, the BBFC gave it a '15' certificate because it included the video for "Thriller". It is the first Jackson album with an age certificate. Along with the original material, the reissue contained remixes, new material, a DVD and collaborations with several contemporary artists.

Two singles, "The Girl Is Mine 2008" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008" were released from the album to moderate success and a number of the other remixes charted, despite no physical release. Thriller 25 was a commercial success, selling 3 million copies worldwide in its 12 weeks and was generally well received among critics, despite their view that the new material was not as inspiring as the original.

All songs produced by Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Bruce Swedien, will.i.am, Kanye West, Akon, Giorgio Tuinfort, Anthony Kilhoffer.

Track list:

A:
1. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - 6:03
2. Baby Be Mine - 4:20
3. The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney) - 3:42
4. Thriller - 5:59

B:
1. Beat It - 4:18
2. Billie Jean - 4:54
3. Human Nature - 4:06
4. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) - 3:59
5. The Lady In My Life - 4:59

C:
1. Vincent Price Excerpt From "Thriller" Voice-Over Session - 0:24
2. The Girl Is Mine 2008 with will-i-am (Unreleased Track) - 3:12
3. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008 with will-i-am (Unreleased Track) - 4:21
4. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008 with Akon (Unreleased Track) - 4:14

D:
1. Beat It 2008 with Fergie (Unreleased Track) - 4:12
2. Billie Jean 2008 (Kayne West Mix) (Unreleased Track) - 4:38
3. For All Time (Unreleased Track from Original Thriller Sesssion) - 4:04

Record label: Epic/Legacy
Pre Recordings: 2008, Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California
Worldwide Sales: 3 million
Released: 08-02-2008
Series number: 88697 23344 1
Printed: EU

Singles released out of that album:

Invincible

Invincible was released on October 2001. It was Jackson's first full album of only all-new material since 1991's Dangerous. The cover art of this album was a simple design of just Michael's face. It was available in the standard silver edition, or four limited colours: red, green, orange, and blue.

The album included guests performances by Carlos Santana, Brandy and posthumous appearances by The Notorious B.I.G. and Rod Serling. On Invincible, Michael Jackson expanded his vocal abilities as well as his instrumental involvement on the album, playing most of the instruments and performing much of the programming tasks in collaboration with producers Rodney Jerkins, Teddy Riley, and Dr. Freeze.

Just before the release of Invincible, Jackson informed then Sony Music Entertainment head, Tommy Mottola, that he was not going to renew his contract, signed in 1991, which was about to expire in terms of supplying the label with albums of full-new material for release through Epic Records/Sony Music Entertainment. By 2002, sales and interest in the album had decreased rapidly, which prompted Mottola to cancel all single releases, video shootings and promotions concerning the Invincible album. Due to this abrupt canceling, Jackson made allegations about Sony not supporting its African American artists. In addition, reportedly racist remarks were made by Sony Entertainment's head, Tommy Mottola. As a result Jackson and other label artists claimed he was a racist who used black artists for his own personal gain. Jackson also insisted that Mottola called Irv Gotti a "fat nigger". Sony issued a statement saying the allegations were untrue since Motolla used to be married to pop star Mariah Carey, who is of Venezuelan and African-American descent, and was currently married with Mexican pop star Thalía.

There were seven singles and videos that Sony and Jackson wanted to release from Invincible. Initially, Jackson wanted to release "Unbreakable" as the debut single from the album, partnered with a 20-minute music video. However, Sony wanted Jackson to release "You Rock My World" instead of "Unbreakable" due to shorter production time of the video accompanying the single. "You Rock My World" was the only worldwide single release from Invincible and would reach the top ten position in 22 countries. Jackson had also planned to release "The Lost Children", "Break of Dawn", "Butterflies", "Speechless", "Cry" and "Whatever Happens" (with Carlos Santana).

In 2002, Jackson announced that Invincible would be his last studio album with Epic Records.

All songs produced by Michael Jackson, Rodney Jerkins, Teddy Riley, Andraeo "Fanatic" Heard, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, R. Kelly, Dr. Freeze.

Track list:

A:
1. Unbreakable - 6:25
2. Heartbreaker - 5:10
3. Invincible - 4:45
4. Break Of Dawn - 5:32

B:
1. Heaven Can Wait - 4:49
2. You Rock My World - 5:39
3. Butterflies - 4:40
4. Speechless - 3:18

C:
1. 2000 Watts - 4:24
2. You Are My Life - 4:33
3. Privacy - 5:05
4. Don't Walk Away - 4:25

D:
1. Cry - 5:01
2. The Lost Children - 4:00
3. Whatever Happens - 4:56
4. Threatened - 4:19

Record label: Epic
Pre Recordings: 2001, Hit Factory and Sony Studio's, New York City, New York
Worldwide Sales: 10 million
Released: 29-10-2001
Series number: E2 69400
Printed: USA

Singles released out of that album:

Blood On The Dance Floor - HIStory In The Mix

Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix is a remix album by Michael Jackson released in 1997. The tracks on the album included eight remixes of songs from Jackson's previous album HIStory - Past, Present and Future, Book I, and five original songs ("Blood on the Dance Floor", "Morphine", "Superfly Sister", "Ghosts" and "Is It Scary"). Jackson dedicated the album to Sir Elton John to thank him for the support Elton had given him during Jackson's struggle with addiction to prescription painkillers.

The debut single from the album, "Blood On the Dance Floor", was released in Europe. The single peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart.
The U.S. release of the single was less popular, peaking at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #19 on the R&B chart. The second single from the album was "HIStory/Ghosts", which included the official Tony Moran remix of "HIStory" as a double A-side track.

On May 14, 1997, the album was released worldwide, and was certified platinum by the RIAA in October 2000. Worldwide, the album has sold an estimated 6 million copies.It is listed as the biggest-selling remix album ever.

All songs produced by Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Dallas Austin, Bill Bottrell, David Foster, Janet Jackson, R. Kelly.

Track list:

A:
1. Blood On The Dance Floor - 4:13
2. Morphine - 6:28
3. Superfly Sister - 6:27

B:
1. Ghosts - 5:08
2. Is It Scary - 5:35
3. Scream Louder (Flyte Tyme Remix) - 5:30
4. Money (Fire Island Radio Edit) - 4:23

C:
1. 2 Bad (Refugee Camp Mix) - 3:32
2. Stranger In Moscow (Tee's In-House Club Mix) - 6:54
3. This Time Around (D.M. Radio Mix) - 4:05

D:
1. Earth Song (Hani's Club Experience) - 7:55
2. You Are Not Alone (Classic Club Mix) - 7:37
3. HIStory (Tony Moran's HIStory Lesson) - 8:01

Record label: Epic
Pre Recordings: 1997, Flyte Tyme Studios, Hit Factory and Sony Studio's, New York City, New York
Worldwide Sales: 6 million
Released: 14-05-1997
Series number: EPC 487500 1
Printed: Holland

Singles released out of that album:

HIStory Past, Present And Future Book I

HIStory - Past, Present and Future, Book I is a tripple album (one half greatest hits, one half studio album) released in June of 1995 by the Epic Records division of Sony BMG.

(HIStory Begins) contains fifteen hit singles from the past fifteen plus years of his career to this point (which was re-released in late 2001 as an only-compilation project, entitled Greatest Hits - HIStory Volume I). The track list included fourteen U.S. Top 10 singles (nine of which were number-one hits) plus the worldwide top 5 hit "Heal the World".
The second disc, (HIStory Continues) contains fifteen previously unreleased recordings, five of which were released as singles.

(HIStory Continues) comprises new material. Six singles, and two promotional singles were released from HIStory; "Scream", "You Are Not Alone", "Earth Song", "This Time Around", "They Don't Care About Us" and "Stranger in Moscow". "This Time Around" was released as a radio only single, and "Earth Song", "They Don't Care About Us" and "Stranger in Moscow" were less successful within the United States, but were successful internationally; all three peaking within the top ten in multiple countries. As part of promotion for the song's, music video's were released, which have become influential on other artist's material.

Initial sales were strong, with the album debuting at #1 in most countries around the world. In the U.S., it outsold Dangerous's first weeks total with 391,000 copies sold as compared to 326,500. In the UK, it sold 100,000 in its first 2 days making it at that time, the fastest-selling album ever[citation needed]. It did not keep up these initial good sales figures however and only remained at #1 in the U.S. for 2 weeks and in the UK for 1 week. It remained at the top of other album charts around the world for an average of 2 weeks.

Sales in the UK picked up during the huge success of the second single "You Are Not Alone" and particularly the only-European hit "Earth Song". Sales by the end of the year were just over 1 million copies making it triple platinum. The other successful HIStory singles and the tour helped HIStory to go onto sell over 1.5 million copies during its promotional period. This was not as good as Dangerous but in revenue terms much higher due to HIStory's price. In fact, HIStory was the second highest-grossing album during 1995 in the UK.

All songs produced by Michael Jackson, James Harris,Terry Lewis, David Foster, R. Kelly.

Track list:

A:
1. Billie Jean - 4:54
2. The Way You Make Me Feel - 4:57
3. Black Or White - 4:15
4. Rock With You - 3:40
5. She's Out Of My Life - 3:38
6. Bad - 4:07

B:
1. I Just Can't Stop Loving You - 4:12
2. Man In The Mirror - 5:19
3. Thriller - 5:57
4. Beat It - 4:18
5. The Girl Is Mine - 3:41

C:
1. Remember The Time - 3:59
2. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - 6:05
3. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - 6:04
4. Heal The World - 6:24

D:
1. Scream (with Janet Jackson) - 4:38
2. They Don't Care About Us - 4:44
3. Stranger In Moscow - 5:44
4. This Time Around - 4:21
5. Earth Song - 6:46

E:
1. D.S. - 4:49
2. Money - 4:41
3. Come Together - 4:02
4. You Are Not Alone - 5:45
5. Childhood (Theme From "Free Willy 2") - 4:28
6. Tabloid Junkie - 4:32

F:
1. 2 Bad - 4:49
2. HIStory - 6:34
3. Little Susie - 6:13
4. Smile - 4:55

Record label: Epic
Pre Recordings: 1995, Hit Factory and Sony Studio's, New York City, New York
Worldwide Sales: 20 million
Released: 15-06-1995
Series number: E3 59000
Printed: UK

Singles released out of that album:

Dangerous

Dangerous is the eighth studio album by Michael Jackson, released in 1991. Jackson ended his association with Quincy Jones, and enlisted the producing talents of new jack swing inventor Teddy Riley. The RIAA certified Dangerous at 7x Platinum, internationally the album has sold an estimated 32 million copies, tying it with Bad as the second best-selling album of Jackson's career.

The album spawned seven top ten hit single's in the UK - Jackson's best in the UK. The album gained a total of 73x Platinum certifications throughout the world and became the top selling New jack swing album of all time. Nine songs from the album were released as singles around the world.

The album cover was designed by Mark Ryden. Jackson supported the album with the Dangerous World Tour, of which he donated all the money to his Heal The World Foundation of the 90s, inspired by his hit song, "Heal The World".

Dangerous was heavily anticipated, as highlighted by an incident at the Los Angeles International Airport that witnessed a group of armed robbers stealing 30,000 copies of the new album before its official release.

It became his second to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, where it spent the next four consecutive weeks. Dangerous was the first album ever to spawn eight consecutive UK Top 20 hits.
The album was included at number 115 on the list of the "Definitive 200" albums of all time developed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers.

All songs produced by Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley and Bill Bottrell.

Track list:

A:
1. Jam - 5:39
2. Why You Wanna Trip On Me - 5:25
3. In The Closet - 6:32
4. She Drives Me Wild - 3:42
5. Remember The Time - 4:00
6. Can't Let Her Get Away - 5:02
7. Heal The World - 6:24

B:
1. Black Or White - 4:16
2. Who Is It - 6:35
3. Give In To Me - 5:28
4. Will You Be There - 7:40
5. Keep The Faith - 5:57
6. Gone To Soon - 3:22
7. Dangerous - 7:00

Record label: Epic
Pre Recordings: 1991, Way / Record One Studio 2 in Los Angeles, California and the sessions ended at Larrabee North and Ocean Way Studio
Worldwide Sales: 32 million
Released: 26-11-1991
Series number: EPC 465802 1
Printed: Holland

Singles released out of that album:

The Original Soul Of Michael Jackson

The Original Soul of Michael Jackson is a compilation of songs by Michael Jackson, recorded early in his solo career in the early 1970s and released in 1988.

While the album claims to 'contains music never before released', the only new song available was a re-dubbed cover of Edwin Starr's 1970 hit "Twenty-Five Miles", sung by the Jackson Five and solely credited to Michael.

Some songs were newly edited on the album, with a newly dubbed version of "Dancing Machine". Ain't No Sunshine were also slightly different in the vocals and a modern drum machine were added to Twenty-Five Miles.

"Melodie" was planned for a single in an effort to promote the record in the US, but was scrapped for a promo-only single "Twenty-Five Miles"/"Up On The Housetop".

All songs produced by Hal Davis.

Track list:

A:
1. Twenty-Five Miles - 3:27
2. Dancing Machine (Remix) (with The Jackson 5) - 3:50
3. It's Too Late To Change The Time (Remix) (with The Jackson 5) - 3:49
4. Melodie - 3:18
5. Ain't No Sunshine (Remix) - 3:05
6. Got To Be There - 3:22

B:
1. Doggin Around - 2:19
2. Rockin' Robin - 2:30
3. If I Don't Love You This Way (Remix) (with The Jackson 5) - 3:24
4. You've Got A Friend (Remix) - 4:36
5. Forever Came Today (with The Jackson 5) - 5:45

Record label: Motown
Pre Recordings: 1988, Motown Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California.
Worldwide Sales: 500 thousand
Released: 02-1988
Series number: ZL72622
Printed: Germany

Singles released out of that album:

Bad

Bad is an album of recorded music by pop music icon Michael Jackson, released in 1987. After the monumental success of Thriller, Jackson and co-producer/collaborator Quincy Jones produced a slicker funk/pop confection. Bad is currently certified at 8x Platinum by the RIAA in the United States, and worldwide has sold an estimated 32 million copies. In addition it achieved 5 #1 singles in the U.S., a world record which has never been broken.

Rolling Stone stated that "even without a milestone recording like "Billie Jean", Bad is still a better record than Thriller." The magazine further went on to say that the "filler" content in Bad - including songs such as "Speed Demon", "Dirty Diana" and "Liberian Girl" - is written by Jackson himself, making Bad "richer, sexier and better than Thriller's forgettable's." Although the album did not meet the sales of his previous album,Thriller , it has been viewed as a commercial and critical success.

Jackson set another record with this album, becoming the first (and currently, only) artist to have five songs to hit #1 from one album.

All songs produced by Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones.

Track list:

A:
1. Bad - 4:06
2. The Way You Make Me Feel - 4:58
3. Speed Demon - 4:01
4. Liberian Girl - 3:52
5. Just Good Friends - 4:05

B:
1. Another Part Of Me - 3:53
2. Man In The Mirror - 5:18
3. I Just Can't Stop Loving You - 4:23
4. Dirty Diana - 4:52
5. Smooth Criminal - 4:16

Record label: Epic
Pre Recordings: 1987, Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California
Worldwide Sales: 30 million
Released: 31-08-1987
Series number: EPC 450290 1
Printed: Holland

Singles released out of that album:

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