Released November 16, 2004 | Recorded 1969–2004 Release date 16 November 2004 | |
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Producer Michael JacksonVarious Genres Pop music, Rock music, Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Funk, Hip hop music, Pop rock, New jack swing, Dance-pop Similar Michael Jackson albums, Soul music albums |
The Ultimate Collection is a box set by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 16, 2004 by Epic Records and consist of four audio CDs and one DVD. Selling over a million copies, the DVD marked the first appearance of Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour, which was later released as an individual title on July 25, 2005. The album has been certified Platinum by RIAA for the shipments of at least 1 million units in the USA.
Contents
- 01 i want you back michael jackson the ultimate collection hd
- Album information
- Rarities
- Track listing
- Limited Japanese Edition bonus tracks
- Someone Put Your Hand Out
- Songs
- References
01 i want you back michael jackson the ultimate collection hd
Album information
Much of the music is drawn from the height of Jackson's career, particularly from the principal seven albums: Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix and Invincible. Notable tracks on the box set include the first release of the demos of songs such as "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)", "Shake Your Body", "Cheater" and the original demo of "We Are the World" featuring Jackson as a soloist. The set also contains 8 unreleased songs, including "In the Back", "Beautiful Girl", "The Way You Love Me" and "We've Had Enough".
The song "The Way You Love Me" was updated for the posthumous album Michael with the title "(I Like) The Way You Love Me", and was released as a single on July 8, 2011.
Rarities
The Ultimate Collection box set also contains songs previously out of print:
Track listing
Limited Japanese Edition bonus tracks
The addition of "Another Part of Me" pushes the number of tracks down by one (i.e. "Someone Put Your Hand Out" starts off Disc 4).
Someone Put Your Hand Out
"Someone Put Your Hand Out" (on disc three of The Ultimate Collection) is a song originally written by Michael Jackson with Teddy Riley in 1987 for the Bad album and re-written in April 1992, having failed to make it on to Jackson's 1991 album Dangerous. It was released May 1992 in Europe as an exclusive Pepsi promotional single, to promote Jackson’s upcoming Dangerous World Tour. 500,000 (source needed)(copies were made available by collecting a winning token from certain Pepsi products. It was also released as part of an exclusive Pepsi promotional pack in June 1992 throughout Europe and the United Kingdom. The promotional pack included a Michael Jackson poster, a promotional sticker, a press release about Jackson’s upcoming Dangerous World Tour and a cassette single of "Someone Put Your Hand Out". In 1993 the song was also planned to be released in the United States as a promotional CD for the Sony Walkman. Customers who purchased a special Michael Jackson signature Sony Walkman would receive a bonus CD featuring "Someone Put Your Hand Out" as well as other rare Jackson songs and remixes of his hits. However, this promotion was withdrawn following the 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson.
Songs
1I Want You Back2:59
2ABC2:58
3I’ll Be There3:58