Get ready for a new Michael Jackson album to hit stores this November. A rep for the King of Pop’s estate has revealed that the record features 10 previously unreleased tracks will be made available as part of a 7-year deal via Sony Music worth over $250 million. Check out what Jackson’s manager, Frank DiLeo, had to say about the project below:
“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. {Source}
As much as everyone wants to hear new material from Jackson I sense that if he wanted the songs to be released then he would have done so a long time ago. This is just another opportunity for the major companies to profit off of a man who they paid little interest to in life. Am I the only person who remembers Jackson’s bitter feud with Sony Music and Mottola directly just a few years ago? Hear what he had to say here.