Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection
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Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection is a 71-track triple disc compilation album
commemorating Michael Jackson
's early years with Motown Records. The album features Jackson's four solo LPs from Motown (dating from 1971 to 1975), plus songs that were released after he left the company.
reissue label Hip-O Select
announced on its Twitter
page that the 3-CD set was now available for pre-ordering, with an announced shipping date of July 3rd, the same date the set would be released to retail stores. However, some copies were shipped before that, the earliest being June 26th, the date after Jackson's death.
The set was released digitally on iTunes
on June 30th. The release date has caused some controversy, as some people think Motown used this release as a quick cash-in after Jackson's death (it is the fourth such album to be released). This rumor was denied by fans who said they were told in emails that the release date for iTunes were set in advance.
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
commemorating Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
's early years with Motown Records. The album features Jackson's four solo LPs from Motown (dating from 1971 to 1975), plus songs that were released after he left the company.
Release dates
On June 12, 2009, Universal Music GroupUniversal Music Group
Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
reissue label Hip-O Select
Hip-O Records
Hip-O Records is a record label, currently part of Universal Music Group, which specializes in reissues and compilations. Their Hip-O Select label is currently in the midst of releasing the Complete Motown Singles, a series of fourteen box sets which include both sides of every 45 from Motown...
announced on its Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
page that the 3-CD set was now available for pre-ordering, with an announced shipping date of July 3rd, the same date the set would be released to retail stores. However, some copies were shipped before that, the earliest being June 26th, the date after Jackson's death.
The set was released digitally on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
on June 30th. The release date has caused some controversy, as some people think Motown used this release as a quick cash-in after Jackson's death (it is the fourth such album to be released). This rumor was denied by fans who said they were told in emails that the release date for iTunes were set in advance.
Disc 1
- Tracks 1-10 from Got to Be There
- Tracks 11-20 from BenBen (album)Ben is the second studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on August 4, 1972, while Jackson was still a member of The Jackson 5. The album received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. Ben was more successful on music charts than Jackson's previous...
- Track 18 contains a studio countdown not released on the original album.
- Tracks 21 & 23 originally released on Anthology: The Best of Michael Jackson
Disc 2
- Tracks 1-10 from Music & MeMusic & Me-Compilation album:Music & Me is sometimes confused with a Michael Jackson compilation album of the same name that Motown Records released in 1993...
- Tracks 11-20 from Forever, MichaelForever, Michael-Personnel:*Michael Jackson – lead and background vocals*David Blumberg - arranger*Jim Britt – photography*Hal Davis – producer*L.T. Horn – engineer, mixing*Eddy Manson – arranger, producer*Freddie Perren – arranger, producer...
- Track 23 originally released on Anthology: The Best of Michael Jackson
Disc 3
- Tracks 1-12 from Looking Back to YesterdayLooking Back to YesterdayLooking Back to Yesterday is a 1986 compilation album featuring tracks from Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5. As part of Motown's Never-Before-Released series, all songs were previously unreleased except for "Love's Gone Bad" and "I Was Made to Love Her", alternate versions were released in 1979...
- Track 15 released in remixed form on The Original Soul of Michael JacksonThe Original Soul of Michael JacksonThe Original Soul of Michael Jackson is a remix album of songs by Michael Jackson, recorded and published early in his solo career in the early 1970s and remixed in 1987....
- Tracks 16-24 from Farewell My Summer LoveFarewell My Summer LoveFarewell My Summer Love is a compilation of archived Michael Jackson recordings in January and September 1973. The album was released by Motown Records in the U.S...