1. Jingo ft. LaFemme - Thriller (5:41)
2. Hypnomusic - Billie Jean (4:39)
3. Lizette & Groove Da Praia - Beat It
(3:54)
4. Morgan, G & Machines - Rock With You (3:35)
5. Sixth Finger feat Alanah Woods - Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough (5:28)
6. Groovy Waters - Bad (3:51)                                   play
7. Glambeats Corp. - The Way You Make Me Feel (3:37)
8. Space Gang - Human Nature (4:39)                             play
9. Watching Colours feat Claudette - Black Or White (2:40)
10. Anakelly - Man In The Mirror (3:39)
11. Funky Rhythm Affair - Wanna Be Starting Somethin' (5:04)
12. Oman Chali & Fiona Chelamah - Heal The World (4:50)

Michael Jackson is one the fundamental figures of pop music worldwide. Chill n' Michael is a homage to his music and his legacy. This album represents the beauty of his music in a more contemporary manner. The subtle soulful electronic beats of chill out are used to portray his biggest hits in a new light, reminding us why he really was The King of Pop.

Chill n' Michael is an attractive album, full of elegance and a tribute to the enigmatic figure of this much loved artist. ---Editorial Review, amazon.com

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1. Human Nature
2. Remember The Time
3. Are You Not Alone
4. One More Chance
5. Black Or White
6. Scream
7. Blood On The Dance Floor
8. Dangerous
9. Smooth Criminal
10. You Rock My World
11. Billie Jean
12. Rock With You
13. The Way You Make Me Feel
14. Thriller
15. Bad
16. Beat It

Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana on August 29, 1958, and entertained audiences nearly his entire life. His father, Joe Jackson, had been a guitarist, but was forced to give up his musical ambitions following his marriage to Katherine Jackson (née Katherine Esther Scruse). Together, they prodded their growing family's musical interests at home. By the early 1960s, the older boys Jackie, Tito and Jermaine had begun performing around the city; by 1964, Michael and Marlon had joined in.

A musical prodigy, Michael's singing and dancing talents were amazingly mature, and he soon became the dominant voice and focus of the Jackson 5. An opening act for such soul groups as the O-Jays and James Brown, it was Gladys Knight (not Diana Ross) who officially brought the group to Berry Gordy's attention, and by 1969, the boys were producing back-to-back chart-busting hits as Motown artists ("I Want You Back," "ABC," "Never Can Say Goodbye," "Got to Be There," etc.). As a product of the 1970s, the boys emerged as one of the most accomplished black pop / soul vocal groups in music history, successfully evolving from a group like The Temptations to a disco phenomenon.

Solo success for Michael was inevitable, and by the 1980s, he had become infinitely more popular than his brotherly group. Record sales consistently orbited, culminating in the biggest-selling album of all time, "Thriller" in 1982. A TV natural, he ventured rather uneasily into films, such as playing the Scarecrow in Czarnoksieznik (1978), but had much better luck with elaborate music videos.

In the 1990s, the downside as an 1980s pop phenomenon began to rear itself. Michael grew terribly child-like and introverted by his peerless celebrity. A rather timorous, androgynous figure to begin with, his physical appearance began to change drastically, and his behavior grew alarmingly bizarre, making him a consistent target for scandal-making, despite his numerous charitable acts. Two brief marriages -- one to Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley -- were forged and two children produced by his second wife during that time, but the purposes behind them appeared image-oriented. Despite it all, Jackson's passion and artistry as a singer, dancer, writer and businessman are unparalleled, and it is these prodigious talents that will ultimately prevail over the extremely negative aspects of his seriously troubled adult life. ---Gary Brumburgh, imdb.com

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1 	Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 	3:56
2 	Rock With You 	3:40
3 	Billie Jean 	4:53
4 	Beat It 	4:18
5 	Thriller 	5:12
6 	I Just Can't Stop Loving You 	4:12
7 	Bad 	4:06
8 	Smooth Criminal 	4:17
9 	The Way You Make Me Feel 	4:57
10 	Man In The Mirror 	5:04
11 	Dirty Diana 	4:41
12 	Black Or White 	3:19
13 	You Are Not Alone 	4:34
14 	Earth Song 	5:01
15 	You Rock My World 	4:26
16 	Break Of Dawn 	5:29
17 	One More Chance 	3:49
18 	Ben (Live) 	2:58

Since Michael Jackson botched his first hits collection by pairing it with a new album of material in a double-disc set, making it considerably less attractive for those legions of listeners who want just a single disc of hits, it's both inevitable and welcome that he attempted another compilation a few years later. This second collection, Number Ones, was released in the wake of the 2000 blockbuster Beatles 1, which rewrote the rules of modern-day hits collections from major artists, since it not only contained a generous, representative cross section of hits, it had a specific focus and did gangbuster business. An avalanche of similar-minded compilations by other titans followed, notably Elvis' 30 #1 Hits and the Rolling Stones' Forty Licks, and MJ's Number Ones is part of that wave. For some artists, sticking to number one hits isn't a bad way to make a collection -- the Beatles are a perfect example, actually, since even if 1 didn't contain such seminal items as "Strawberry Fields Forever," it still offered a full, representative portrait of their career. Jackson doesn't fare so well by the number one rule. First of all, he doesn't strictly follow the number one rule, leaving behind the number one hit duet "Say Say Say" with Paul McCartney, substituting a 1981 live version of "Ben" for the original hit, adding "Break of Dawn," an Invincible album cut never released as a single, and including "Thriller," "Smooth Criminal," and "Earth Song," none of which hit number one, and the latter wasn't even released as a single in the U.S. (there is, of course, the requisite previously unreleased song, the OK slow jam "One More Chance"). Then, there's the fact that Thriller changed the business, inaugurating the era of the blockbuster album that rode the charts for years, spinning off hit singles every quarter. Thriller generated tons of hits -- six of its nine tracks hit the charts, but only two of them hit number one. Its successor, Bad, had seven of its 11 songs hit the charts (one other, the CD bonus cut "Leave Me Alone," was a staple on MTV), and of those, five peaked at number one. So, by sticking to number ones, and adding "Smooth Criminal," this collection skews very heavily toward Bad, at times playing like an expanded reissue with bonus tracks. This may be a fairly accurate reading of chart positions, but it doesn't result in a particularly representative collection, since the brilliant Off the Wall is granted only two songs, leaving behind such charting hits as "Off the Wall" and "She's Out of My Life" (both gold singles, mind you), and Thriller is represented by only three tracks, with such defining songs as "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Human Nature," "PYT (Pretty Young Thing)," and "The Girl Is Mine" being left behind. These two albums are the core of Jackson's legacy, and it simply feels wrong that Number Ones gives them short shrift. Dangerous also is neglected, providing just one selection, when on the whole it had far more memorable songs than HIStory or Invincible. But these problems are inherent with any collection that concentrates just on the charts, not the music that got the songs on the charts in the first place. And while Number Ones contains enough of the big songs to recommend it for those listeners who are looking just for a cross section of the biggest hits from Jackson's career, it is also true that the perfect Michael Jackson hits collection has yet to be assembled. Maybe next time, particularly if he's granted an entry into Sony's generally excellent The Essentials series. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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1972 - Ain't No Sunshine
1972 - Ben
1972 - Got To Be There
1972 - I Wanna Be Where You Are
1973 - Happy
1973 - Music And Me
1975 - One Day In Your Life
1975 - We're Almost There
1979 - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
1979 - Get On The Floor
1979 - Girlfriend
1979 - I Can't Help
1979 - It's The Falling in Love
1979 - Off The Wall
1979 - Rock With You
1979 - She's Out Of My Life
1982 - Baby Be Mine
1982 - Carousel
1982 - Human Nature
1982 - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
1982 - The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney)
1984 - Farewell My Summer Love
1984 - Girl You're So Together
1987 - I Just Can't Stop Loving You
1987 - Liberian Girl
1991 - Remember The Time
1995 - You Are Not Alone
1997 - Blood On The Dance Floor
2010 - Hollywood Tonight

No single recording artist or entertainer has eclipsed what Michael Jackson accomplished throughout his career as an entertainer and an artist.

Michael Jackson was born on August 29th, 1958. Growing up as the eighth of ten children in Gary, Indiana, Jackson began his career at just seven years of age as the lead singer of the Jackson 5, breaking into stardom in 1969 after signing into Motown: the Jackson 5’s first four singles all peaked at number one on the Billboard 100. But Michael wasn’t done.

He soon pursued a solo career. 1979’s Off The Wall produced four top ten hits (including “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”) and sold 20 million copies, establishing him as a household name. 1982’s Thriller became the best selling album of all time, and was the first album to feature seven top 10 singles, including “Billie Jean” and “Beat It.”

1983 saw an iconic performance at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, and 1985 brought the collaboration single “We Are The World”, which remains one of the best-selling singles of all time and raised nearly $65 million for famine relief.

With 1987 came Bad, which spawned five number one hits including “Man In The Mirror,” “Bad,” and “Dirty Diana.” 1991 was accompanied with Jackson’s 8th album Dangerous, which included hits “Black or White” and “Remember the Time.” In 1993, Jackson performed at the Super Bowl XXVII halftime show.

Double-album HIStory was released in 1995, becoming the best selling multiple-disc album of all time, moving 20 million units, and included singles “Scream” (a duet with sister Janet Jackson), “You Are Not Alone” (which was incidentally also the first single to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at #1), and “Earth Song.” 2001 brought Invicible, which hosted “You Rock My World.”

He passed away in June 25th, 2009, at the age of 50 to much distress in the public eye and the pop music spectrum. His legacy, however, lives on, as some of his unreleased music is being put out posthumously (including single “Love Never Felt So Good” with Justin Timberlake).

Through sheer talent, he broke down racial barriers that denied black artists mainstream media exposure. His contributions to music, dance, videography, and fashion made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.

His success spawned 13 Grammys, 26 AMAs, over 400 million records sold, 13 solo #1 singles, and many, many more achievements.

Michael Jackson was most certainly the King of Pop. --- genius.com

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01 - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 
02 - Rock With You 
03 - Workin' Day And Night 
04 - Get On The Floor 
05 - Off The Wall 
06 - Girlfriend 
07 - She's Out Of My Life 
08 - I Can't Help It 
09 - It's The Falling In Love

Arranged By [Rhythm] – Stevie Wonder
Arranged By [Strings] – Johnny Mandel
Concertmaster – Gerald Vinci
Drums – John Robinson 
Electric Piano, Synthesizer, Arranged By [Rhythm] – Greg Phillinganes
Flute, Baritone Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Kim Hutchcroft
Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Larry Williams
Guitar – David Williams, Marlo Henderson, Marlo Henderson, "Wah Wah" Watson*
Horns – The Seawind Horns
Lead Vocals – Michael Jackson
Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
Synthesizer – David Foster
Synthesizer, Programmed By [Synthesizer] – George Duke
Trombone – William Reichenbach
Trumpet – Gary Grant
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Jerry Hey

Michael Jackson had recorded solo prior to the release of Off the Wall in 1979, but this was his breakthrough, the album that established him as an artist of astonishing talent and a bright star in his own right. This was a visionary album, a record that found a way to break disco wide open into a new world where the beat was undeniable, but not the primary focus -- it was part of a colorful tapestry of lush ballads and strings, smooth soul and pop, soft rock, and alluring funk. Its roots hearken back to the Jacksons' huge mid-'70s hit "Dancing Machine," but this is an enormously fresh record, one that remains vibrant and giddily exciting years after its release. This is certainly due to Jackson's emergence as a blindingly gifted vocalist, equally skilled with overwrought ballads as "She's Out of My Life" as driving dancefloor shakers as "Working Day and Night" and "Get on the Floor," where his asides are as gripping as his delivery on the verses. It's also due to the brilliant songwriting, an intoxicating blend of strong melodies, rhythmic hooks, and indelible construction. Most of all, its success is due to the sound constructed by Jackson and producer Quincy Jones, a dazzling array of disco beats, funk guitars, clean mainstream pop, and unashamed (and therefore affecting) schmaltz that is utterly thrilling in its utter joy. This is highly professional, highly crafted music, and its details are evident, but the overall effect is nothing but pure pleasure. Jackson and Jones expanded this approach on the blockbuster Thriller, often with equally stunning results, but they never bettered it. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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1 	–Michael Jackson 	Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 	6:02
2 	–Michael Jackson 	Baby Be Mine 	4:20
3 	–Michael Jackson With Paul McCartney 	The Girl Is Mine	3:42
4 	–Michael Jackson 	Thriller    Rap [Featuring] – Vincent Price 5:57
5 	–Michael Jackson 	Beat It 	4:18
6 	–Michael Jackson 	Billie Jean    Guitar [Featuring] – Eddie Van Halen 4:53
7 	–Michael Jackson 	Human Nature 	4:05
8 	–Michael Jackson 	P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 	3:58
9 	–Michael Jackson 	The Lady In My Life 	4:58
10 	–Vincent Price  	Excerpt From "Thriller" Voice-Over Session 	0:24
		Previously Unreleased Tracks For 25th Anniversary Edition
11 	–Michael Jackson 	The Girl Is Mine 2008    Vocals – Will.I.Am 3:11
12 	–Michael Jackson 	P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008    Vocals – Will.I.Am 4:21
13 	–Michael Jackson	Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008     Vocals – Akon 	4:14
14 	–Michael Jackson	Beat It 2008    Vocals – Fergie	4:12
15 	–Michael Jackson 	Billie Jean 2008 (Kanye West Mix)	4:37
16 	–Michael Jackson 	For All Time 	4:03

Thriller is the biggest-selling album of all time; it says so on the cover of this reissue package. What it doesn't say is that, on a worldwide scale, it outpaces the Eagles, Pink Floyd, and Celine Dion by more than just a marginal million or so: At 100 million+ copies sold, it's estimated to have sold more than twice its nearest rival.

And so people try to concoct explanations. The album was focus-grouped for broader appeal-- but then why haven't focus groups worked so well since? Jackson made the racial crossover breakthrough on MTV-- but once that door was opened, why didn't the sales crossover work for others? Jackson's stunning dancing and videos exploded pop's visual formatting-- but the Thriller album, until DVD-era reissues like this one, wasn't a visual experience.

When Thriller opens, those 100 million sales feel just. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" is pure confused, shocked teenage rush. So there's another theory: Thriller is the best-selling record ever because it's the best record ever. That one holds up for six minutes and two seconds, during which Jackson and Quincy Jones mix the tension of rock'n'roll with the rapture of disco and hit perfection. But then you get "Baby Be Mine"-- one of the original tracks that wasn't a single-- and the momentum fades: On the heels of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", it should maintain the temperature; instead, it goes nowhere, starts nothing.

Thriller is inconsistent in style, which gives it something to appeal to everyone, but it's oddly tough to listen to even the great bits sequentially-- its peaks are from different mountain ranges. "Thriller"'s joke-shop horror segues well into Eddie Van Halen's headbanging guitar on "Beat It". But to follow that into the paranoid celebrity funk of "Billie Jean", the meltingly tender "Human Nature", and the smooth R&B of "P.Y.T."? These are all brilliant singles, though; Thriller's greatness lies in its great songs not in it "working like an album."

For this edition Jackson's called in some current big guns to provide remixes, and sadly they do provide the consistency the originals gloriously lack. Will.i.am sets the tone: He takes Macca off "The Girl Is Mine" but decides it can't work without someone sounding like an idiot and steps manfully in himself. There's a general reluctance to use what these guest stars are good at: will.I.am is a consistently slick, inventive pop producer but nobody wants to hear him rap, whereas on Kanye West's "Billie Jean" a guest verse might have added dynamics to the mix's clumsy claustrophobia. Fergie's gift as a pop star is the way her crassness shifts into oddness-- so on "Beat It" her nervous reverence is a waste of time. Only Akon comes off well, flipping the meaning of "startin' somethin'" and turning the song into a joyful seducer's groove, and here it's Jackson's own mush-mouthed new vocal that spoils things.

The remixes aren't a missed opportunity-- they're an imaginative way to wring bonus material from sessions overseen by a notorious perfectionist. It could be a lot worse. The last time Thriller got reissued it included "Someone in the Dark", a horror from the E.T. soundtrack showcasing Jackson's most saccharine side. We're spared that, and the token MJ rarity here is "For All Time", recorded during the Thriller sessions (and then later rejected for Dangerous). A glistening, slightly overdressed piano ballad, it might have made a nicely sappy album closer-- if we didn't already have the subtler, understated, and underrated "The Lady in My Life", possibly Jackson's most soulful solo performance on the record.

The DVD footage, with all the videos you'd expect, is much better. Watching the famous Motown 25th Anniversary performance of "Billie Jean" in particular I'm struck by how angular Jackson's dancing is, how tense: Knees and elbows spiking out, body freezing into indecipherable alphabets. And then how beautiful, the way he simply flows out of each position, the release that made his music so joyful given kinetic form.

The biggest-selling album of all time, then, and you should probably take the "of all time" literally. His highest-clout guest stars here have shifted around one-twentieth the copies Thriller has, and in a dwindling industry it's hard to imagine anything similar happening again. Fluke it maybe was, but as a unification move it worked-- the last time, maybe, one person could incarnate almost all of pop, all the corny and all the awesome in one mind. We live now in the world of the "long tail"-- Thriller was the big head. ---Tom Ewing, pitchfork.com

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Disc 1
1 Wanna Be Startin Somethin
2 Human Nature
3 Heartbreak Hotel
4 Medley Jackson 5
5 She's Out Of My Life
6 Things I Do For You
7 Off The Wall
8 Rock With You

Disc 2
1 Lovely One
2 Working Day And Night
3 Beat It
4 Billie Jean
5 Shake Your Body > Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough tease > Shake Your Body
6 Thriller
7 I Just Can't Stop Loving You
8 Bad

Yokohama Stadium, Yokohama, Japan 
27 Sep 1987 
Radio Broadcast

This concert was professionally filmed and broadcast in Japan so this is the audio straight from that (the videos are all over the place on YouTube etc. so it’s a familiar show). Jennifer Batten on lead guitar and Sheryl Crow on back-up vocals as well as duet partner on I Just Can’t Stop Loving You. The whole show is live, unlike a lot of future Michael Jackson concerts.

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