Sony has scheduled to release Michael Jackson’s new song “This Is It” to radio stations Sunday night and will be unveiled and available for download at exactly midnight (October 12th) at MichaelJackson.com. The song was found on a tape which had only contained Michael’s vocal and piano, which was then built into a full arrangement with strings and back up vocals by his brothers. The song is to play in the closing credits of the This Is It film that will be released later this month.

There are more unrleased Michael Jackson songs that will be available to fans in the future. Rob Stringer, chairman of Sony’s Columbia/Epic record label said “We probably have at least 100 songs in varying degrees of being finished and we think there probably is a lot more.”  He also stated, “We haven’t gone into the archive to search it properly yet — it’s just too complicated to do that.”

Michael Jackson’s music continues to dominate the charts with over 9 million in record sales worldwide since his death, according to The Times. Nielsen SoundScan indicated that in the US alone, 1.1 million albums sold in the last week and in total over 2.3 million since his death three weeks ago.

With no doubt, the popularity of Michael Jackson’s music, performances and memorabilia is not losing any interest as fans continue to snap them up. Now that Michael Jackson is gone, the closest anyone can get to seeing or hearing him is through his music and taped performances. All this demand is a way for fans to keep his memory alive.

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During Michael Jackson’s solo music career, he had numerous hit songs with 14 of them hitting number one on the Billboard Hot 100. They are as follows:

• 1972: Ben
• 1979: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
• 1980: Rock with You
• 1983: Billie Jean
• 1983: Beat It
• 1983: Say Say Say (with Paul McCartney)
• 1985: We Are The World (USA For Africa)
• 1987: I Just Can’t Stop Loving You (with Siedah Garrett)
• 1986: Bad
• 1987: The Way You Make Me Feel
• 1988: Man in the Mirror
• 1988: Dirty Diana
• 1991: Black or White
• 1995: You Are Not Alone

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The Michael Jackson memorial on July 7th had performances from Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, Usher and more. Most performed one of his famous songs. Jermaine Jackson performed a heartfelt Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile”, which was Michael Jackson’s favorite song.

Here are the Michael Jackson Memorial songs in the order they were performed:

• Andrae Crouch Choir – Soon and Very Soon
• Mariah Carey and Trey Lorenz – I’ll Be There
• Lionel Richie – Jesus Is Love
• Stevie Wonder – I Never Dreamed You Would Leave In Summer & They Won’t Go When I Go
• Jennifer Hudson – Will You Be There
• John Mayer – Human Nature
• Jermaine Jackson- Smile
• Usher – Gone Too Soon
• Shaheen Jafargholi – Who’s Loving You
• Group with singers from Jackson’s This Is It Tour  - We Are The World & Heal The World

Usher’s version of  “Gone Too Soon’ was poignant and fitting considering the sudden death of Michael Jackson. It was originally written by Michael Jackson to honor his friend Ryan White who died of AIDS at the young age of 18.

Which performance did you think was the best?