Bad (1987)

Track listing

1. "Bad" (Jackson) – 4:06
2. "The Way You Make Me Feel" (Jackson) – 4.58
3. "Speed Demon" (Jackson) – 4:01
4. "Liberian Girl" (Jackson) – 3:53
5. "Just Good Friends" (Duet with Jackson and Stevie Wonder) (Britten/Lyle) – 4:05
6. "Another Part of Me" (Jackson) – 3:53
7. "Man in the Mirror" (Ballard/Garrett) – 5:18
8. "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" (Duet with Jackson and Siedah Garrett) (Jackson) – 4:13
* The LP version includes a spoken intro omitted in the CD version
9. "Dirty Diana" (Jackson) – 4:40
10. "Smooth Criminal" (Jackson) – 4:16
11. "Leave Me Alone" (Jackson) – 4:37

Album Information

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 achieved 8x platinum status in the United States, and has sold an estimated 32 million copies worldwide. Jackson set another record with this album, becoming the first (and currently, only) artist to have five songs to hit #1 from one album. In July 2006, it was announced by the The Official UK Charts Company that Bad was the ninth biggest selling album in British history. It turned out to be the last collaborative effort by Jackson and Jones, as Jackson moved on to write and produce more of his own records. The album was supported by an international tour that entertained over 4.4 million fans. The tour grossed in over 125 million USD.

Jackson originally wanted the album to be a multiple-disc set with 30 tracks in all. However, Quincy Jones cut it down to 10 tracks and made it a single-disc LP. The CD release contained an extra track, "Leave Me Alone". In one of the interviews with Quincy Jones - which appeared on the special edition of Bad - Quincy said that he wanted to make Bad with Prince, Quincy set up a meeting with Michael Jackson and Prince, but Prince finally said that Bad would be a hit without him. There have been numerous rumours that Jackson will release his multi-disc version of the album sometime in the future.

Outtakes

Known outtakes from Bad:

* "Streetwalker" (included on Special Edition, see below)
* "Fly Away" (included on Special Edition, see below)
* "Cheater"' (later appeared on The Ultimate Collection)
* "Al Capone" (unshared snippet)
* "Buffalo Bill"
* "We Are Here to Change the World" (from Captain EO, and later appeared on The Ultimate Collection)
* "Bumper Snippet"
* "Chicago 1945" (later became "Smooth Criminal")
* "Crack Kills" (with Run DMC)
* "Groove of Midnight"
* "Hot Fever" (later became "The Way You Make Me Feel")
* "The Price of Fame"
* "Tomboy"

There are over 30 songs actually recorded for Bad.

Chart Information & Sales

Highest Chart Position: UK #1 USA #1
Current Sales Award: UK 13 times Platinum USA 8 times Platinum
Current Sales Figure: Over 4.2 million sold Over 8 million sold
Latest Official World Sales Figure: 25 million (as of mid 1996).
Current Best Estimate World Sales: 29 million (includes new special edition sales).

Chart Run

UK: #1,1,1,1,1,2,3,4,11,14,15,14,12,6,4,2,2,3,2,5,7,12,10,9,9,9,12,15,25,28,30,31,26,29,32,38,46,46,39,29,34,42,46,30,
20,5,4,4,5,6,5,7,6,8,4,10,13,16,22,35,27,33,39,29,26,22,21,15,10,9,6,4,10,13,16,15,13,14,21,11,10,10,12,16,18,21,20,
26,33,34,36,37,42,42,48,49,40,31,30,35,37,37,38,47,50,57,59,62,out 1 wk,75,(out till 8/8/92),14,17,21,27,41,73, (out till
27/10/01),53,70,(out till 28/9/02),56,(out till 15/2/03),73,out 2 wks,68,38,50,(out till 18/1/04),75,61,66,out

USA: #1,1,1,1,1,1,2,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,4,4,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,3,3,3,2,2,4,5,5,4,3,4,5,10,14,15,16,20,22,24,27,27,26,30,34,36,
40,39,39,47,48,50,58,58,59,61,60,48,48,50,52,52,45,42,42,42,50,55,57,59,65,76,80,89,102,121,134,156,166,165,
168,187,out

USA R&B chart (top 100): #3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,3,2,2,2,1,1,1,4,4,6,6,7,10,10,12,15,14,16,16, 19,23,29,34,38,38,41,39,38,35,42,46,57,60,66,65,66,68,68,59,56,53,54,54,51,55, 60,59,62,70,83,86,out

Other Countries sales figures:

Australia: 350,000+
Brazil: 700,000+
France: 1,400,000+
Germany: 2,000,000+
Spain: 500,000+
Japan: 1,000,000+

Special Edition

A Special Edition of the album was released in November 2001, featuring three previously unreleased songs and spoken word material. The songs were:

• "Streetwalker" (previously unreleased)
• "Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu (I Just Can't Stop Loving You - Spanish Version)" (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
• "Fly Away" (previously unreleased)

The spoken word material appears interspersed between the bonus unreleased songs and features an interview with Quincy Jones about the recording and making of the album. The album also includes a new 20-page booklet with lyrics plus rare and unreleased photos not part of the original release.

Thriller (miXscape Remix)

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Dangerous

Videos from Dangerous | MJ Discography
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Track listing

1. "Jam" featuring Heavy D
2. "Why You Wanna Trip On Me"
   
3. "In the Closet"
4. "She Drives Me Wild"
5. "Remember the Time"
   
6. "Can't Let Her Get Away"
   
7. "Heal the World"
8. "Black or White"
9. "Who Is It"
   
10. "Give In To Me"
11. "Will You Be There"
    
12. "Keep the Faith"
    
13. "Gone Too Soon"
    
14. "Dangerous"

Album Information

The Dangerous album was released on November 26, 1991, and became the fastest selling number one album, breaking the records by entering the charts at #1 only 3 days after it's release! It was also the first album released by Sony music that had a Thursday release date, rather than the traditional Monday release.

This was the first solo album by Michael Jackson that was not produced by Quincy Jones.
The album has sold over 21 million copies worldwide to date.
Guest appearances on this album were made by rapper L.T.B, Princess Stephanie of Monacco (credited as the "Mystery Girl"), and Slash.

Credits

• Executive producer: Michael Jackson
• Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley and Bill Bottrell
• Technical directors: Brad Sundberg and Thom Russo
• Additional engineering by Dave Way, Matt Forger, Jean-Marie Horvat, Richard Cottrell and Kevin Gilbert
• Assistant engineers: Brad Sundberg, Bart Stevens, Thom Russo, John Chamberlain, Rail Rogut, Dan Bosworth, Julie East and Elaine Anderson
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman
  

Outtakes

Known outtakes from Dangerous:

• "A Baby Smiles"
• "Bottle Of Smoke"
• "Dangerous" (early version, appeared on The Ultimate Collection)
• "Fever"
• "For All Time" (leaked online)
• "Girls Of Another Love"
• "If You Don't Love Me" (leaked online)
• "Men In Black" (unshared snippet)
• "Monkey Business" (appeared on The Ultimate Collection)
• "Planet Earth"
• "Pretty Faces"
• "Satisfy You" (Duet with Brian Loren, leaked online)
• "Serious Effect" (with LL Cool J) (leaked online)
• "Seven Digits"
• "She Got It" (snippet leaked online)
• "Someone Put Your Hand Out" (Released on Pepsi promo cassette, also later included on The Ultimate Collection)
• "Trust About Youth"
• "What About Us" (later became "Earth Song")
• "Work That Body" (snippet leaked online)
  

On a recent ITV documentary The One And Only Michael Jackson, collaborators stated that Jackson started Dangerous with 60 songs, suggesting that there are far more outtakes than those leaked online or released subsequently.

Other Information

In March of 1991, Michael Jackson signed an all new 15 year, 6 album deal with Sony; that November he delivered his first - Dangerous. 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 30 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. The major hits included "Black or White", "Remember the Time", "In the Closet", "Heal the World", "Who Is It", "Jam", and "Will You Be There".

As was becoming the standard for Jackson, the album's music videos were among the most costly and innovative of their time. Several of the music videos taken from the Dangerous album had complex storylines and dance sequences, and featured cameo appearances by celebrities. The video for "Jam", directed by David Kellogg, showed Jackson and Michael Jordan playing basketball and dancing together, while "Remember the Time" was set in an ancient Egyptian palace, and starred Eddie Murphy and Iman as the pharaoh and his queen. The video also featured a cameo by NBA player Magic Johnson. "In the Closet" featured Jackson and supermodel Naomi Campbell as lovers. The director of the video was photographer Herb Ritts, who also photographed Jackson in a series of promotional shots for the release of the Dangerous album.

"Black or White" was originally over ten minutes long, it premiered simultaneously on November 14, 1991 on MTV, VH1, BET, and FOX. The video is extremely noteworthy for featuring one of the earliest examples of computer-generated morphing. The last four minutes of the video also induced much controversy, as it depicted Jackson smashing store windows and destroying a car with a crowbar. This destructive behaviour was intended to imply a message of anti-racism, however. MTV and the other music video networks decided to excise the last four minutes of the "Black or White" video for all subsequent airings, and Jackson issued a statement apologizing to anyone who had been offended, and explaining that he tried to interpret the animal instinct of panthers into a dance. The video featured Macaulay Culkin (among others) and was directed by John Landis, also the director of the "Thriller" short film.

The album cover was by Mark Ryden. On November 20, 1991, a group of armed men stole 30,000 copies of Dangerous from a terminal at Los Angeles Airport due to its immense popularity.

Jackson would not release another full-length album of only all new songs for 10 years, with Invincible in 2001. HIStory, released in 1995, did contain a full disc of new material, but was only available in a double-disc set, the first CD containing previous hits.

A Special Edition of the album appeared in 2001. The Special Edition was digitally remastered and included a slipcase, revised artwork and previously unseen photos. Because of the constraints of Dangerous' running time, previously unreleased songs were not included, however many of them were eventually leaked onto the internet along with various demos of other tracks that appeared on the album. In 2004, some of these leaked tracks were officially released on Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection (namely the Dangerous Demo and Monkey Business).

Invincible (2001)

Invincible is an album by Michael Jackson released on October 30, 2001. It was Jackson's first full album of all-new material since 1991's Dangerous (his previous album, HIStory, was sold with some of his greatest hits included as an extra CD). 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, yellow and blue. The singles released from the album include "You Rock My World", "Cry", and "Butterflies" (see Michael Jackson singles discography for chart positions). 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.

Track Listing:

1. Unbreakable | 6:25
2. Heartbreaker | 5:10
3. Invincible | 4:45
4. Break of Dawn | 5:32
5. Heaven Can Wait | 4:49
6. You Rock My World | 5:39
7. Butterflies | 4:40
8. Speechless | 3:18
9. 2000 Watts | 4:24
10. You Are My Life | 4:39
11. Privacy | 5:05
12. Don't Walk Away | 4:25
13. Cry | 5:01
14. The Lost Children | 4:00
15. Whatever Happens | 4:56
16. Threatened | 4:19

Chart Information

Highest Chart Position: UK #1 USA #1
Current Sales Award: UK Platinum USA 2 times Platinum
Current Sales Figure: 350,000 2.1 million

Latest Official World Sales Figure: 5.4 million (to end of 2001).
Current Best Estimate World Sales: 8 million.

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UK (top 100) & USA (top 200) chart run:
UK: #1,5,18,32,39,44,49,52,65,95,out for 9 months,84,96,out for 7 months,63,65,70,96,out
USA: #1,3,4,11,17,25,28,26,25,27,24,25,27,27,35,40,46,53,71,89,104,126,123,130,124,174,174,198,out
USA R&B chart (top 100): #86,1,1,1,1,3,5,5,5,8,7,5,6,6,10,13,13,14,24,34,40,44,50,49,54,69,55,61,67,71,69,87,80,81,out 1 wk,100,out

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Other Countries sales figures:

Australia: 70,000+
Brazil: 70,000+
France: 600,000+
Japan: 200,000+

Out takes

* "Another Day" (with Lenny Kravitz)
* "Ekam Satyam (The One Truth)"
* "Fall Again" - Demo appeared on Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection
* "Kick It"
* "Maybe We Can Do It" (with P. Diddy)
* "New Attitudes"
* "On My Anger"
* "Peaceful Journey"
* "She Was Loving Me"
* "Shout" - Later appeared on "Cry" single release 2001
* "Soldier's Entrance"
* "This Is Our Time"
* "True Life"
* "What You Do To Me"
* "What More Can I Give" - Later available as official download only)
* "Who Do U Be" - Later used on rapper Kurupt's album Kuruption!
* Untitled/Unknown track featuring Method Man produced by Swizz Beats

Other Information

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, Jackson made allegations about Sony not supporting its African-American artists. Jackson referred to Sony Entertainment's head, Tommy Mottola, as a "devil" and 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 that they found the allegations strange, 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.

Story Behind The Success

Invincible debuted at number one in the majority of record markets around the world including Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Turkey and of course the UK & USA. Current sales are around 8 million which is a once in a lifetime achievement by most artists standards but a huge disappointment by MJ's previous record-breaking sales. The reason for this relative failure is as follows.

Up to the end of 2001 sales were at 5.4 million, (11th best seller worldwide) which was very good for 2 months of sales, but behind HIStory & Dangerous which had sold more in the same time period. The album was outselling HIStory in the USA & French markets however up until the early part of 2002. The album was absolutely huge in France where after release it was #1 for 3 weeks and top 10 for 2 months thereafter with sales to date of over 750,000 copies. The album was also doing very well in the USA, much to many peoples surprise, where it sold a million copies in just over a month but it dropped out of the top 200 mid 2002 due to no promotion/singles with sales at 2.1 million. It was also at the top of the R&B album chart for 4 weeks and remained in the top 10 for 14 weeks.

This showed that the album got off to a reasonable start but the album fell out of most international charts in early 2002 simply due to no promotion on Sony's part and the lack of an active singles. It was hoped the Cry single would help the album back up the chart in Christmas 2001 but due to it's chart failure it had little impact. The second single in the USA, Butterflies, had a much better effect in prolonging strong album sales, due to superb airplay, but the lack of a commercial release (and therefore #1 spot) inhibited its positive effect.

The album promotion/singles campaign halted in early 2002 due to Michael's problem's with Sony and his possible future departure from the label. The expected main commercial singles, Unbreakable & Whatever Happens, were crucial to the albums long-term success - but their releases were cancelled. Also in the USA all planned radio release singles after Butterflies were also cancelled. Due to this the album sales slowed to a trickle and it left most charts. It did however enjoy a brief re-entry in some world charts (inc an extra month in the UK) after the Bashir interview in early 2003 but the sales impact on Michael's other more well know albums was much greater.

The album had enormous potential for huge hit singles (and therefore sales) but Sony did everything possible so this did not happen. All Michael previous album have had strong or steady sales over a 2 year period due to multiple successful single releases and world tours. Tragically this has not happened with Invincible despite it containing some of the strongest tracks of his career.

Sony has now moved on and the only Invincible track's getting attention are You Rock My World and Break of Dawn which feature on the new 'Number Ones' compilation which in just 6 weeks sold triple the UK total sales of Invincible although in most other counties (especially the USA) Invincible's sales are still well ahead of Number Ones.

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Collaborations In MJ 2007 album (7EVEN)

From Wikipedia

will.i.am

Jackson has enlisted Black Eyed Peas member will.i.am (William Adams) as a music producer for the album. Jackson and Adams appeared together in an Access Hollywood interview conducted in October of 2006. At the time of the interview, Jackson and Adams had not completed any music yet and were still experimenting with different sounds and styles. However, a Rolling Stone magazine article published in a few months later stated that the pair had already completed eight songs including one title "I'm Dreamin'".

Will.i.am told Billboard magazine that he is involved in more than just the musical aspect of Jackson's new album. He is also discussing with Jackson how he can use new technology, particularly social networking websites and downloading outlets to his advantage.

Teddy Riley

Long-time Michael Jackson producer Teddy Riley, who has worked with Jackson since 1991 on his albums Dangerous, Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix and Invincible, has been working with Jackson on the new album since May 2006.

Other collaborators

In the last four months of 2006, Jackson worked in the Grouse Lodge Recording Studios. During those four months, he worked with will.i.am (as previously mentioned), Rodney Jerkins (who worked with Jackson on his Invincible album), Neff-U (who has worked with Ne-Yo, Eminem and 50 Cent) and Big Chuck.

Rumoured and unconfirmed collaborators

R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo told People magazine (Issue 15) that he might be involved in the making of Jackson's new album. He told the magazine, "As of now it's just about finding the time to do it. This is beyond huge. The man is responsible for my whole sound. I'm looking forward to meeting him. I heard that he's an interesting guy to say the least."

Jackson could also be possibly working with R&B star Akon. However, Akon claims he is not at liberty to disclose details on his involvement in the album.

Another R&B artist that Jackson might be working with is Chris Brown. Brown performed a tribute to Jackson at the World Music Awards 2006. At that time he revealed to Billboard magazine that he was in talks with Jackson to participate in the new album.

Producer Sean Garrett has also attached his name to the new Jackson album. E! revealed that Jackson's new album is on his long list of current and future music projects.

2007 Album Info (in Wikipedia)