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* Lyrics to the song were featured as a poem titled "When a Baby Smiles" in the 1992 book ''[[Dancing the Dream]]''
* Lyrics to the song were featured as a poem titled "When a Baby Smiles" in the 1992 book ''[[Dancing the Dream]]''
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|"[[A Place with No Name]]"||{{sortname|Michael|Jackson|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Dewey|Bunnell|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Dr.|Freeze}}||
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* Written c. 1974
* Written c. 1974
* The song was originally intended for [[The Jackson 5]] or as a duet between Wonder and Jackson; the two reportedly recorded the song for Wonder's 1987 ''[[Characters (Stevie Wonder album)|Characters]]'' album
* The song was originally intended for [[The Jackson 5]] or as a duet between Wonder and Jackson; the two reportedly recorded the song for Wonder's 1987 ''[[Characters (Stevie Wonder album)|Characters]]'' album
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|"Angel"||{{sortname|Kenneth "Babyface"|Edmonds|Babyface (musician)}}||
|"Angel"||{{sortname|Kenneth "Babyface"|Edmonds|Babyface (musician)}}||
* Recorded by Jackson around 1998
* Recorded by Jackson around 1998
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|style="background-color: #ffff00;"|"Attitude"<sup>‡</sup>||{{sortname|Michael|Jackson|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Kathy|Wakefield|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Michel|Pierre|nolink=1}}||align=center|—||<ref name="Halstead 20"/>
|style="background-color: #ffff00;"|"Attitude"<sup>‡</sup>||{{sortname|Michael|Jackson|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Kathy|Wakefield|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Michel|Pierre|nolink=1}}||align=center|—||<ref>Halstead, p. 20.</ref>
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|style="background-color: #bbddff;"|"Bad Girl"*||{{sortname|Michael|Jackson|nolink=1}}||
|style="background-color: #bbddff;"|"Bad Girl"*||{{sortname|Michael|Jackson|nolink=1}}||
||<ref name="Halstead 24"/>
||<ref>Halstead, p. 24.</ref>
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|"Bassouille"||{{sortname|Michael|Jackson|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Bruce|Swedien}}||
|"Bassouille"||{{sortname|Michael|Jackson|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Bruce|Swedien}}||
* Written in 1994 but failed to make Michael’s HIS''TORY'' album
* Written in 1994 but failed to make Michael’s HIS''TORY'' album
* Also known as "Basszouille"
* Also known as "Basszouille"
||<ref name="Halstead 25"/>
||<ref>Halstead, p. 25.</ref>
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|bgcolor="#ooff7f"|"Be Me 4 a Day"<sup>†</sup>||{{sortname|Michael|Jackson|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Gray Calix|Days|nolink=1}}||
|bgcolor="#ooff7f"|"Be Me 4 a Day"<sup>†</sup>||{{sortname|Michael|Jackson|nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Gray Calix|Days|nolink=1}}||
* Also known as "Be Me for a Day", "Just for One Day Be Michael", "Just for a Day", "Me 4 a Day" and "Be Michael"
* Also known as "Be Me for a Day", "Just for One Day Be Michael", "Just for a Day", "Me 4 a Day" and "Be Michael"
||<ref name="Halstead 26"/>
||<ref>Halstead, p. 26.</ref>
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|"Belong 2"||{{sortname|Michael Jackson||nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Teddy|Riley|Teddy Riley (producer)}}||
|"Belong 2"||{{sortname|Michael Jackson||nolink=1}}<br>{{sortname|Teddy|Riley|Teddy Riley (producer)}}||

Revision as of 19:46, 6 May 2013

An African American man in his mid-twenties wearing a sequined military jacket and dark sunglasses. He walks and waves his right hand, which is adorned with a white glove. His left hand is bare.
Michael Jackson in 1984

Michael Jackson was an American musician and entertainer. He is known to have written, recorded and filmed material that has never been officially released. Many of the pop singer's unreleased songs have been registered—usually by his company Mijac Music—with professional bodies such as the United States Copyright Office, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) and EMI Music Publishing.[1] This list, however, only documents the songs explicitly cited as being unreleased and, therefore, does not contain every unreleased Jackson song registered with such bodies.

Jackson—along with Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Joseph Jackson—faced a copyright infringement suit in 1993. The lawsuit came after three songwriters alleged that the pop star and his fellow defendants had plagiarized the hits "The Girl Is Mine", "Thriller" and "We Are the World".[2][3] During a seven-hour deposition, Jackson named numerous unreleased songs that he had written or co-written.[1][4] Following the testimony, a nine-member jury found the defendants not guilty of plagiarism.[5]

Many officially unreleased Jackson songs had been scheduled, at one point, for release on records by the singer, including his seven solo studio albums with music label Epic Records: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory (1995), Invincible (2001) and Michael (2010). For varying reasons, the tracks were ultimately rejected and, as of 2013, remain unreleased. The pop singer's unreleased material includes songs recorded by Jackson as a solo artist (including covers of songs released by other artists and The Jackson 5 songs) and demo versions, some featuring established artists such as Freddie Mercury and Barry Gibb.

Several of Jackson's songs have been leaked onto the Internet without gaining an official release. One example involved the song "A Place with No Name", a 24-second snippet of which was leaked by website TMZ.com following Jackson's death in 2009.[6] At the time of the leak, it was claimed that there were "hundreds" of unreleased songs by the musician, and that they could be issued for several years to come. Commenting on the subject, the curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jim Henke, noted that any future releases would garner significant attention. "I think we are going to see amazing interest in any released Michael Jackson material that will come out in the future or a year from now on."[7][8][9] On March 16, 2010, Sony Music Entertainment signed a record-breaking $250 million deal with Jackson's estate to retain distribution rights to his recordings until 2017 and release ten posthumous albums—some of which will feature unreleased material—over the next decade.[10]

Key

Denotes songs registered with Broadcast Music Incorporated
Denotes songs registered with EMI Music Publishing
*
Denotes songs cited by the singer in his 1993 deposition
(Year) Denotes songs registered with the United States Copyright Office and the year of registration
*(Year)
Denotes Jackson-written songs cited by the singer in his 1993 deposition and the year they were registered with the United States Copyright Office

Songs

Song Writer(s) Notes Ref
"A Baby Smiles"* Michael Jackson
  • Lyrics to the song were featured as a poem titled "When a Baby Smiles" in the 1992 book Dancing the Dream
[11]
"A Place with No Name" Michael Jackson
Dewey Bunnell
Dr. Freeze
  • Written and recorded in 1998
  • TMZ leaked the snippet in 2009, 3 weeks later after Jackson's death
[6]
"A Pretty Face Is" Stevie Wonder
  • Written c. 1974
  • The song was originally intended for The Jackson 5 or as a duet between Wonder and Jackson; the two reportedly recorded the song for Wonder's 1987 Characters album
[12]
"Angel" Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
  • Recorded by Jackson around 1998
[13]
"Attitude" Michael Jackson
Kathy Wakefield
Michel Pierre
[14]
"Bad Girl"* Michael Jackson [15]
"Bassouille" Michael Jackson
Bruce Swedien
  • Written in 1994 but failed to make Michael’s HISTORY album
  • Also known as "Basszouille"
[16]
"Be Me 4 a Day" Michael Jackson
Gray Calix Days
  • Also known as "Be Me for a Day", "Just for One Day Be Michael", "Just for a Day", "Me 4 a Day" and "Be Michael"
[17]
"Belong 2" Michael Jackson
Teddy Riley
[18]
"Blue Gangsta" Michael Jackson
Dr. Freeze
  • Also known as "No Friend of Mine"
[19]
"Bottle of Smoke" Michael Jackson [20]
"Buffalo Bill"* Michael Jackson [21]
"California Grass"* Michael Jackson - [22]
"Can't Get Your Weight Off of Me" Michael Jackson
Bruce Swedien
  • Written in 2000
[23]
"Chicago 1945"* Michael Jackson
Steve Porcaro
[24]
"Color Of My Soul" Michael Jackson
  • Michael's brother, Randy Jackson, recorded a demo titled Color of Love
[25]
"Crack Kills"* Michael Jackson
  • Planned to have been recorded with rappers Run-D.M.C. for Jackson's Bad album, but was shelved due to the group's negative attitude toward the singer
  • Lyrics consisting of two verses put up for auction in November 2005, and again on the Internet auction site eBay a year later.||[26]
"Cry"* Michael Jackson [27]
"Crush" Unknown [28]
"Dead or Alive" Michael Jackson [29]
"Deep in the Night" Michael Jackson [29]
"Do You Know Where Your Children Are"* Michael Jackson [30]
"Do You Love Me" Michael Jackson
sortname|Kenneth "Babyface"|Edmonds|Babyface (musician)}}
  • Completed in 1998
[31]
"Do You Want Me" Sisqó
Dru Hill
  • Written c. 1999
[31]
"Doing Dirty" Michael Jackson
Marlon Jackson
[32]
Dreams Michael Jackson [33]
"Easy" Michael Jackson [34]
"Eaten Alive" Michael Jackson
Maurice Gibb
Barry Gibb
  • Original version of the song written by the Gibb brothers, but was reworked by Jackson who was granted co-writer credits
  • A demo version was recorded by Jackson but remains unreleased
  • Later recorded by Diana Ross and released on the Eaten Alive album in 1985
[35]
"Ekam Satyam (The One Truth)" A.R. Rahman
A.R. Parthasarathi
Kanika Myer Bharat
  • Recorded as a duet c. September 1999 with Jackson (singing in English) and Rahman (singing in Sanskrit)
[36]
"Elizabeth, I Love You" Michael Jackson
  • Written and performed by Jackson as a tribute to his friend Elizabeth Taylor in 1997
  • No official release, though bootleg recordings taken from the 1997 performance exist
[36]
"Entertainment Tonight" Michael Jackson [34]
"Face" Michael Jackson [37]
"Fanfare Transition"(1992) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1992
  • Also known as "Fanfare 1992"
[37]
"Fantasy"* Michael Jackson
Jermaine Jackson
[38]
"Far, Far Away"* Michael Jackson [38]
"Fear" Michael Jackson
  • Written c. 1993
[39]
"Free"* Michael Jackson [40]
"From the Bottom of My Heart" Michael Jackson [40]
"Get Around"* Michael Jackson
Rodney Jerkins
Fred Jerkins
LaShawn Daniels
[41]
"Girl of Another" Michael Jackson
  • Also known as Girl of Another Love
[42]
"Goin' to Rio"* Michael Jackson
Carole Bayer Sager
  • Written in 1976.
[43]
"Got The Hots"* Michael Jackson
Quincy Jones
[41]
"Got to Find a Way Somehow"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1979
[44]
"Groove of Midnight" Rod Temperton
  • Written around the Bad era
  • A demo by Jackson surfaced on the Internet in 2003
[45]
"He Who Makes the Sky Grey" Jermaine Jackson
Sheik Abdullah of Bahrain
  • Featured vocals by Jackson
[46]
"Higher Ground" Stevie Wonder
  • A Stevie Wonder song that musician Donny Osmond confirmed he had been working with Jackson on in a 2003 television interview
[47]
"Holiday Inn"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1976
[48]
"Hot Fever"(1985) Michael Jackson [49]
"Hot Street" Rod Temperton
  • Recorded in 1982
  • Early demo version called Slapstick
[49]
"I Can't Get You Off My Mind" Michael Jackson
  • Jackson worked on the song in the early 1970s
  • A demo version/mono acetate is known to exist
[50]
"I Don't Live Here Anymore" Michael Jackson
  • Written c. 2001
  • Also known by the title I Don't Live Anymore
[51]
"I Forgive You"* Michael Jackson [52]
"I Have This Dream" Michael Jackson
Carole Bayer Sager
David Foster
[53]
"I Have This Love of Me"* Michael Jackson [54]
"If You Don't Love Me" Michael Jackson [55]
"In the Valley"* Michael Jackson [56]
"Iowa" Michael Jackson
  • "I have seen him write things which I don't think the public will ever hear," said Janet Jackson. "He has a song called 'Iowa' that he wrote. People will never hear that song. Just before he left to film The Wiz, he put all the songs he had written on to tape in the studio in our parents' house. Not one of them has been heard and those were songs to cry for. There are things that he's written for orchestras that are classical music, I swear to you. Like something by Bach or Beethoven."
[57]
"Joy" Michael Jackson [58]
"Kick It" Michael Jackson
LaShawn Daniels
Rodney Jerkins
Fred Jerkins
[59]
"Kentucky"* Michael Jackson
  • Written in the mid-1970s
[59]
"Kreeton Overture"(1984) Michael Jackson
Jai Winding
Marty Paich
Patrick Leonard
  • Written in 1984 for the opening of The Jacksons' Victory Tour
[60]
"Little Girls"* Michael Jackson [61]
"Llama Lola"* Michael Jackson [61]
"Lonely Bird"* Michael Jackson [62]
"Lonely Man"* Michael Jackson [62]
"Love Never Felt So Good" Michael Jackson
Kathy Wakefield
Paul Anka
  • Written in 1983
  • Demo version leaked onto the internet in 2006
  • Recorded by Johnny Mathis and released on his 1984 album A Special Part of Me[63]
[64]
"Lucy Is in Love with Linus"* Michael Jackson [65]
"Maybe We Can Do It" Michael Jackson
Rodney Jerkins
Sean Combs
[66]
"Men in Black" Michael Jackson
  • Written for the Dangerous album
[67]
"Michael McKellar"* Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1991
[68]
"MJ Melody"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1982
[69]
"Neverland Landing"* Michael Jackson [70]
"Nite Line" Glen Ballard
  • Also known as "Nightline"
  • Written c. 1982
[71]
"Nymphette Lover"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1981
[72]
"Ode to Sorrow"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1977
[73]
"On My Anger" Michael Jackson
Teddy Riley
  • Written c. 1999
[74]
"People Have to Make Some Sort of Joke"* Michael Jackson [75]
"People of the World" Michael Jackson
J Friends
  • Written and produced in 1998
  • The song was first released by the Japanese band J-FRIENDS
[75]
"Peter Pan" Michael Jackson
  • Song mentioned by Jackson on the 1993 CD The Michael Jackson Interview
[76]
"Pyramid Girl" Michael Jackson [77]
"Red Eye"* Michael Jackson [78]
"Rolling the Dice"* Rod Temperton
  • Jackson worked on the song with Temperton and Quincy Jones during the Thriller recording sessions
[79]
"Satisfy" Terry Lewis
James Harris III
[80]
"Saved By the Bell"* Michael Jackson
Jermaine Jackson
[81]
"Seduction" Michael Jackson
Shelby Lee Myrick III
[82]
"Seeing Voices" Michael Jackson
Ray Charles
[83]
"Serious Effect" Michael Jackson
Teddy Riley
  • Features rap by LL Cool J
  • Leaked onto the Internet in 2002
  • Solo demo version by Jackson known to exist
[84]
"Seven Digits" Michael Jackson
Bryan Loren
[83]
"She Got It" Unknown
  • Snippets leaked onto the internet in 2005, with the full version leaking in 2008
[85]
"She's Not a Girl"* Michael Jackson [86]
"She's Trouble" Sue Shifrin
Bill Livsey
Terry Britten
  • Also known as "Trouble"
[87]
"She Was Loving Me" Michael Jackson
Cory Rooney
[85]
"Siegfried & Roy"(1990) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1989 for illusionists Siegfried & Roy
  • Two versions — vocal and instrumental — registered with the United States Copyright Office
  • Thought to be an early version of "Mind Is the Magic"
[88]
"Sister Sue"* Michael Jackson [89]
"Slapstick" Rod Temperton
  • Worked on by Jackson during the Thriller recording sessions
  • The song is an early demo version of "Hot Street"
[90]
"Soldier's Entrance" Michael Jackson
  • Worked on by Jackson in 1999 with a view to have it featured on the Invincible album
[91]
"Somewhere in Time"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1980
[92]
"Stand Tall"(1985) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1982
[93]
"Starlight"* Rod Temperton
  • Jackson worked on the song during the Thriller recording sessions.
  • Referred to by Jackson as "Starlight Sun" during his 1993 deposition; he sang, "Starlight ... Starlight Sun ... Gimme some starlight, for a new day has begun"
  • Evolved into "Thriller"
[94]
"State of Shock" Michael Jackson
Randy Hansen
  • One of three songs Jackson worked on with Queen's Freddie Mercury
  • Demo version by Mercury and Jackson was leaked onto the Internet in 2002
  • Different version later released on Victory with Mick Jagger
[95]
"Stay" (1) Michael Jackson
Bryan Loren
  • Written c. 1988
[96]
"Stop the War" Michael Jackson
Carole Bayer Sager
  • Written c. 1999
[97]
"Susie"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1978
[98]
"Thank Heaven"(1998) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1998
[99]
"Thank You for Life"*(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written c. 1976
[100]
"That" Michael Jackson
  • Written in November 1998
[100]
"That Kind of Lover" Michael Jackson
Ray Ruffin
  • Written c. 2001
[100]
"The Children's Hour"* Michael Jackson [101]
"The Gloved One" Sisqó
  • Written c. 2001
[102]
"The Nightmare of Edgar Allan Poe" Michael Jackson
Walter Afanasieff
  • Written c. 2000
  • Also known as "Edgar Allan Poe"
[19]
"The Pain" Shawn Stockman
Jay Harvey Mason
Rodney Jerkins
[103]
"The Sky Is the Limit"* Michael Jackson [104]
"The Toy"(1984) Michael Jackson [105]
"There Must Be More to Life Than This" Freddie Mercury
  • One of three songs Jackson worked on with Queen's Freddie Mercury in 1983
  • The pair recorded two versions:
  • First version leaked onto the internet in 2002, and features Mercury talking about the song and Jackson singing solo to a piano accompaniment
  • Second version features both Jackson and Mercury singing
[106]
"This Is It"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1980
  • Not to be confused with "This Is It", a song featured on the 2009 soundtrack album This Is It
[107]
"This Is Our Time" Michael Jackson
Lauryn Hill
David Foster
  • Writen in 1999
  • Despite rumours to the contrary, the song was not recorded as a duet with Hill.
[107]
"Throwin' Your Life Away"(1988) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1988
[108]
"To Satisfy You" Michael Jackson
Bryan Loren
  • Written during the Dangerous recording sessions, but Jackson did not like it and gave it to Bryan Loren for his 1992 album Music from the New World
  • Solo recording by Jackson known to exist
[109]
"Tomboy"*(1985) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1985
  • Mistakenly believed by some fans to have been written by Quincy Jones
[110]
"Tragedy of a Cheer-leader"* Michael Jackson [111]
"Tubeway" Michael Jackson
  • Written c. 1999
[111]
"Turning Me Off"* Michael Jackson [112]
"Under Your Skin"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1979
[113]
"Unknown" Michael Jackson
  • It is unclear whether the song is titled "Unknown" or the song title is unknown.
[113]
"Verdicts" Michael Jackson
Bryan Loren
  • Written in 1990 for Dangerous album
  • One of around 20-25 songs that Michael Jackson and Bryan Loren worked on
[110]
"Vibrationist" Michael Jackson
Teddy Riley
  • Written c. 1999
[114]
"Victory" Michael Jackson
Freddie Mercury
  • One of three songs Jackson worked on with Queen's Freddie Mercury in 1983
  • Demo version known to exist
[114]
"We Are the Ones"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1978
[115]
"We Be Ballin'" Michael Jackson [116]
"What a Lonely Way to Go"* Michael Jackson
  • Written c. 1975
[117]
"What About Us" Michael Jackson
  • Written originally for the Dangerous album
  • Demos leaked onto the Internet in 2003
  • Early version of "Earth Song"
[118]
"What You Do to Me"(1985, 1998) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1985
  • First registered with the United States Copyright Office in 1985
  • Re-registered with the United States Copyright Office in 1998
[119]
"What's a Guy Gotta Do" Pharrell Williams
  • Written in 2000
[120]
"What's It Gonna Be" Michael Jackson [121]
"What's Your Life"* Michael Jackson
Jermaine Jackson
[120]
"Who Do You Know"* Michael Jackson
  • Written c. 1981
[121]
"Who Is the Girl with Her Hair Down"* Michael Jackson [122]
"Why Can't I Be"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1980
[123]
"Why Shy"* Michael Jackson [123]
"Xscape" Unknown
  • Recorded during the Invincible recording sessions
  • Leaked onto the internet in 2002, resulting in Jackson's attorneys threatening legal action against sites that did not remove download access to the track
  • Also known as "Xcape" or "Escape"
[124]
"You Ain't Gonna Change Nothin'"*(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1975
[125]
"You Are a Liar"* Michael Jackson
  • Also known as "You're a Liar"
[125]
"You Are So Beautiful" Michael Jackson
  • Song Jackson began writing in 2005 as a thank you to his fans for their ongoing support
[126]
"You Told Me Your Lovin'"(1984) Michael Jackson
  • Written in 1979
  • A second version exists, with words and music by Jackson's brother Randy
[127]
"You're Supposed to Keep Your Love for Me" Stevie Wonder
  • Originally recorded in 1975 by Jermaine Jackson, with Wonder, Jackie Jackson and Michael on backing vocals
  • Re-cut solo version by Jermaine featured on his 1980 Let's Get Serious album, replacing the original recording featuring brother Michael
[128]

Future albums

Following the surge in sales of Jackson's catalogue following his death, Sony Music Entertainment, lead by its Columbia/Epic Label Group division, signed a new deal with the Jackson estate to extend distribution rights to his back catalogue until 2015, which was later extended to 2017, as well as permission to release ten new albums with previously unreleased material and new collections of released work. The deal is the most expensive music contract to a single artist in history, with Sony Music reportedly paying $250 million for the deal, and the Jackson estate getting the full sum, as well as a share of royalties for all works released.[129]

See also

References

Footnotes
  1. ^ a b Halstead, p. 1
  2. ^ Campbell, p. 89
  3. ^ Grant, p. 168
  4. ^ Collier, Aldore. Michael Jackson tries to keep career from crumbling as he fights addiction to painkiller drugs and charges of child molestation. Jet. Retrieved October 17, 2009. {{cite book}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ Federal jury rules in favour of Michael Jackson. Jet. (January 31, 1994). Retrieved March 10, 2009. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ a b Kreps, Daniel (July 20, 2009). "America Respond To Michael Jackson's 'A Place With No Name'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 17, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ "Michael Jackson's second career really takes off this week". San Jose Mercury News. (October 28, 2009). Retrieved November 29, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ Montgomery, James (July 20, 2009). "America 'Honored' By Michael Jackson's 'A Place With No Name' Sample". MTV. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  9. ^ Netter, Sarah (July 17, 2009). "Michael Jackson's Unreleased Songs, Continuing the Music Legacy". ABC News. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  10. ^ "Sony Places Big Bet on a Fallen 'King'". The Wall Street Journal. March 16, 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
  11. ^ Halstead, p. 6.
  12. ^ Halstead, p. 8.
  13. ^ Halstead, p. 17.
  14. ^ Halstead, p. 20.
  15. ^ Halstead, p. 24.
  16. ^ Halstead, p. 25.
  17. ^ Halstead, p. 26.
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  57. ^ Q, June 1993
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  63. ^ "A Special Part of Me – Johnny Mathis". Allmusic. Retrieved March 20, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Text "AllMusic" ignored (help)
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  129. ^ "Estate Of Michael Jackson And Sony Music Renew 30-Year Relationship With landmark Recording Deal". MichaelJackson.com. (March 16, 2010). Retrieved March 20, 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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