Posted on 07/30/2010 12:17:35 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
New Michael Jackson Album In November
An all-new Michael Jackson collection featuring 10 unreleased songs will be released this November, a rep for the Jackson estate exclusively tells Rolling Stone. At the time of his death Jackson reportedly left hard drives filled with unheard music, much of it recorded during the King of Pop's '80s peak. Jackson's manager Frank DiLeo told RS that he estimates that Jackson's vaults contain more than 100 completed and unreleased songs, including collaborations with Akon, Will.i.am and Ne-Yo. "There are a couple of songs we recorded for the Bad album that we had to cut that are just sensational," DiLeo said.
"Every time that [Jackson] recorded, he over-recorded. He would record anywhere from 20 to 30 songs for each album," former Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola told RS last year. Any of them could have been as big a hit as the ones that came out." One of the most noteworthy tracks was a Thriller outtake titled "Don't Be Messin' Around." Other candidates include any of the reported five songs that Jackson recorded with Will.i.am.
Last year, a pair of unreleased Jackson tracks, "Another Day" and "A Place With No Name," leaked, and recently Rodney Jerkins, who co-produced Jackson's 2001 album Invincible, revealed to VladTV that he's currently working on the collection.
As Rolling Stone previously reported, the album of never-before-heard Jackson songs will be the first in a 10-project, seven-year deal the Jackson estate inked with Sony Music in March 2010 — a $250 million pact that will also include reissues of Jackson's classic albums, new greatest hits sets, a DVD collection of all Michael's music videos and possibly a Cirque du Soleil show. The hybrid karaoke and dance simulator Michael Jackson: The Video Game is also expected out by the end of 2010.
He used to be in debt. Now, not so much.
He should be in pretty good shape to release a Thriller II video along about now.
If they are releasing the 80s stuff first then get ready for a massive Christmas season of everything MJ.
I not suprise I reading Roger Friedman colum few months ago Roger said he has about I don’t know how many album worth of unreleased material
He used to be as risk of conviction for child molestation, now not so much.
A celebrity dying is sometimes the safest move they can take in a career.
The labels/studios sure think so.
They can call it "MJ's Pajama Party"
The Hendrix estate has said they have many more albums of material to release over the next 2 decades.
Can you imagine the Sinatra estate bragging about “new releases” 40 years after his death?
Yeah, good point. Now he's just in deep.
He's still in debt, up to his rotted out eyeballs. The guy really knew how to piss money down the drain.
Yes, I also have the complete set of Michael Jackson albums that I’ve never bought.
He will probably vote in 2010 and 2012 ... he was so liberal don’tchaknow.
Wouldn’t that make him a decomposing composer?
I knew it, he’s chillin with 2Pac !!
Yeah, and the estate is till over a quarter billion in debt. Until thats paid off, the kids dont get a nickel. ..Thats why theyre working so hard to peddle his old dreck.
There are so few of us that have the complete
non collection of Michael’s work. Really a
shame he’s not going to be around to record
more music we wouldn’t purchase.
Is nothing sacred????
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