After his death Michael Jackson became the best-selling artist of 2009 in the United States and sold over 35 million albums worldwide. Based on the staggering sales numbers, Sony, earlier this year, announced that they had signed a new deal with the Jackson estate to extend their distribution rights to his catalog until at least 2017, as well as to obtain permission to release ten new albums with previously unreleased material and new collections of released work.
Michael Jackson is back in stores with “Michael” a new album of material released by his record label against the wishes of his estate.
Criticisms by his mother, Katherine, and brother, Randy, claim that one of the songs features a lead vocal track that is not Michael's. In a statement, Sony Music Group countered that it had "complete confidence in the results of our extensive research, as well as the accounts of those who were in the studio with Michael, that the vocals on the new album are his own."
Ahead of the album's release, a lawyer for Michael's father Joe said that Michael "would never have wanted his unfinished material to be released." Will.i.am, who collaborated with Jackson for the album prior to his death, also criticized the release, saying it was "disrespectful" to release the unfinished material because Jackson was not able to give it his blessing.
It will be argued that the record should not have come out, that Jackson himself would not have authorized its release - were he alive - until all aspects met his approval. The album is in stores now, or you can listen to it for a short time by clicking here, or cutting and pasting the following link into your web browser: http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/1
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