Xscape
Epic Records and MJJ Music releases the second posthumous album Xscape by Jackson. Singles include Love Never Felt So Good, and A Place With No Name. Timbaland, executive producer:
This was very trying, not because it was just a Michael Jackson… kept hearing his voice, it was like, I’m doing Michael Jackson. It got emotional. I had to tell my engineer to stop — we gotta go to something else. It took about a week process to really grasp what I’m doing. And once I grasped what I’m doing, I had to call my mom for prayer like, I need some help, I need some guidance on this, ’cause this is hard
Michael
Epic Records and Sony Entertainment release the first posthumous complication album of unreleased tracks by Jackson titled Michael. Hit singles include Hold My Hand, Hollywood Tonight, Behind The Mask, and (I Like) The Way You Love Me. Brian Oxman, a lawyer for Joe Jackson states:
If Michael had wanted this music released he would have done so before his death. The songs which are being released on the new Michael Jackson album were unfinished and incomplete tracks that Michael said over and over many times he never wanted released. We should honor Michael Jackson’s wishes.
Beat It rehearsal performance
Jackson rehearses Beat It for the This is it tour at the Staples center in Los Angeles, California.
I Can’t Stop Loving You performance
Jackson rehearses the song I Just Can’t Stop Loving You with Hill for the This Is It tour.
Tabloid Junkie
Jackson releases Tabloid Junkie, the eleventh track from his ninth album HIStory. The song chronicles Jackson’s tarnished public reputation from what it once was and it also tells of how the public quickly believe the headlines. In Jackson’s most recent albums, this has been an ongoing subject written both blatantly and passively.
Remember, the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money – sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.
We Are The World performance
Jackson performs We Are The World during the World Music Awards in London, England. Jackson has children join him on stage and he throws his jacket off to a waiting crowd. The event is hosted by Lindsay Lohan who introduces him.
Unbreakable performance
Jackson performs Unbreakable on during his Invincible tour to promote his album Invincible in Valencia, California.
Invincible
Jackson releases his 10th album Invincible with co-producer, Jerkins. Hit singles include You Rock My World, Speechless, Butterflies, Cry, and Heaven Can Wait. Jerkins:
He was super vocal. He was so hands on. I’m talking about from the high hat to everything. The sound quality was so important to him. He looked at everything under a microscope, like, “The middle frequency is too much”–he was very technical. He use to always say, “Melody is king” so he really focused in on melody.
You Rock My World Performance
Jackson performsYou Rock My World on his 30th anniversary special at Madison Square Garden in New York. The concert airs on MTV, during the show Total Request Live.
Can You Feel It performance
Jackson performs Can You Feel It with his brothers in during his 30th Anniversary show in New York at Madison Square Garden.
Man In The Mirror performance
Jackson performs Man In The Mirror at the Grammy Awards for album Bad.
Smile
Jackson releases his version of Smile, a song originally written by Charlie Chaplin for the score of his self-directed 1936 film Modern Times.
You have to have that tragedy, that pain to pull from. That’s what makes a clown great. You can see he’s hurting behind the masquerade. He’s something else externally. Charles Chaplin did that so beautifully, better than anyone. I can play off those moments, too. I’ve been through the fire many times.
Multiple song performance
Jackson performs They Don’t Care About Us, Keep It In The Closet along with a host of other hits. There is a 3-D animated virtual backdrop during this HIStory tour in Gothenburg, Sweden at Ullevi Stadium.
Stranger in Moscow
Jackson releases Stranger in Moscow the fifth single from HIStory. The song is an autobiographical look at Jackson’s tour in Moscow where he felt suddenly unknown and disconnected from his fans there.
I wrote that in Moscow. The lyrics are totally autobiographical. When you hear lines like, “Here abondoned in my fame…Armageddon of the brain” – at the time, on the last tour when we were in Moscow – that’s how I really felt. It kinda created itself. It fell into my lap, because that’s how I was feeling at the time. Just alone in my hotel and it was raining and I just started writing it.
Keep it in the Closet performance
Jackson performs Keep it in the Closet live in Munich Germany for his History Tour.
I’ll Be There performance
Jackson performs a solo performance of I’ll Be There during his HIStory concert in Munich, Germany. Jackson also saves a mosquito from being stepped on during the show.
Thriller performance
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Jackson releases Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix, which is a remix, with Epic Records and MJJ Productions (Jackson’s own label). This is the second album released by his own label. Hit singles include Blood On The Dance Floor, HIStory/Ghosts, and It Is Scary.
I Want You Back performance
Jackson performs I Want You Back in a nostalgic fashion during his HIStory concert in Kuala, Lumpur. He begins to cry after after his solo of I’ll Be There.
The Love You Save performance
Jackson performs The Love You Save along with other classic hits during the Jackson Medley tour in Seoul, Korea.