b3xy said:

Today is the last day which I will be able to say 'everything was okay last year'

I hate reading that AND I know exactly what you mean b3xy.

It is weird..I remember around June 19th of last year, sitting in my house,

reading TMZ or something, some blurb about MJ's tour online, and I remember

thinking: "Everything is right in the world. Michael isn't fighting some court battle

with some greedy family, instead he is doing what he does best: preparing to thrill his

fans with a great show." It reminded me of 1995, when I watched MTV and there was a

"Making of Scream" special shown and how they highlighted the anticipation for the video

and the HIStory album. Anyway, that same feeling came over me around June of last year.

By July, it was utter heartbreak. I remember the Time Magazine being rushed to production

with MJ on the cover after his passing..and from that moment on..it was like "DAMN: SHOCK!!"

Then the stages of grief followed. The only way to truly reconcile it, for me, was to remember

how much MJ inspired me during his lifetime, and what he will always mean to me, in the context

of my life. Matty got a tattoo of MJ - and other fans have to, so I know I'm not alone - and neither

are you with the feelings of sadness about tomorrow b3xy.

4everYoung said:

I can't wait for Katherine's coffee table book to come out...should be interesting to see her personal photos chosen for the book.

When is this book expected? I haven't heard anything about it, that's why I depend on this site.

MICHAEL JACKSON'S mum has hinted her son may have been the victim of a murder plot.

Jacko, 50, died last June from an anaesthesia overdose, but KATHERINE has fuelled conspiracy theories into his untimely passing.

She claims the tragic Thriller star had frequently warned her that people were out to kill him. She told US show Dateline: "He told me several times that he felt that people wanted him gone, wanted him dead. "He would always say that. And for him to say that, he must have known something. "It's just some of the mean, evil, vicious people didn't want him around for some reason. They're greedy."

Asked what she'd say to the pop icon if she could see him again, Katherine replied: "My goodness, I'd have so much to say... but the main thing I'd want to know is what really happened."

In the candid interview - due to air tomorrow to mark the first anniversary of Jacko's demise - Katherine also recalled her final meeting with the pop icon, around a week-and-a-half before his death.

She said: "We had a really good time together.

"Those are my fond memories of him because I never looked at him after he passed.

"I wanted to remember him smiling and laughing and having a good time the last time I saw him."

In a separate interview, brother JERMAINE is adamant that Michael would still be alive if he had - like him - converted to Islam.

He revealed: "I felt that if Michael would have embraced Islam he would still be here today, and I say that for many reasons.

"Because when you are 100 per cent clear in your mind as to who you are and what you are and why you are and everybody around you, then things change in a way that's better for you."

Meanwhile, a never-before-seen promo picture of Jacko is going under the hammer.

Michael Jackson's Blue Eye was among the portraits put forward for the sleeve of his 2001 album Invincible.

The snap - featuring Jacko with questionably perfect skin and tied-back hair - will be put up for auction by Pierre Berge & Associates in December.

[Edited 6/24/10 7:34am]

suga10 said:

Katherine Jackson: Michael said that People Wanted him Dead

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/3028010/Katherine-Jackson-Michael-said-that-people-wanted-him-dead.html#ixzz0rjw4EKQK

By TIM NIXON

Published: Today

MICHAEL JACKSON'S mum has hinted her son may have been the victim of a murder plot.

Jacko, 50, died last June from an anaesthesia overdose, but KATHERINE has fuelled conspiracy theories into his untimely passing.

She claims the tragic Thriller star had frequently warned her that people were out to kill him. She told US show Dateline: "He told me several times that he felt that people wanted him gone, wanted him dead. "He would always say that. And for him to say that, he must have known something. "It's just some of the mean, evil, vicious people didn't want him around for some reason. They're greedy."

Asked what she'd say to the pop icon if she could see him again, Katherine replied: "My goodness, I'd have so much to say... but the main thing I'd want to know is what really happened."

In the candid interview - due to air tomorrow to mark the first anniversary of Jacko's demise - Katherine also recalled her final meeting with the pop icon, around a week-and-a-half before his death.

She said: "We had a really good time together.

"Those are my fond memories of him because I never looked at him after he passed.

"I wanted to remember him smiling and laughing and having a good time the last time I saw him."

In a separate interview, brother JERMAINE is adamant that Michael would still be alive if he had - like him - converted to Islam.

He revealed: "I felt that if Michael would have embraced Islam he would still be here today, and I say that for many reasons.

"Because when you are 100 per cent clear in your mind as to who you are and what you are and why you are and everybody around you, then things change in a way that's better for you."

Meanwhile, a never-before-seen promo picture of Jacko is going under the hammer.

Michael Jackson's Blue Eye was among the portraits put forward for the sleeve of his 2001 album Invincible.

The snap - featuring Jacko with questionably perfect skin and tied-back hair - will be put up for auction by Pierre Berge & Associates in December.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/3028010/Katherine-Jackson-Michael-said-that-people-wanted-him-dead.html#ixzz0rjw4EKQK

[Edited 6/24/10 7:34am]

His skin was damn-near perfect...outside of the vitiligo, once that man got out of his teen years, did you ever see him with a blemish again? NOPE

Timmy84 said:

bboy87 said:

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ommodores Re-Record Grammy Award Winning “Nightshift” to Pay Tribute to Michael Jackson on Anniversary of His Passing

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Commodores performed at Wembley Arena in London on June 25, 2009, the night Michael Jackson died. It was a somber experience for the Commodores to hear that news as they walked off the stage. The following night, JD Nicholas substituted the word Michael for Jackie in their performance of their Grammy Award winning song “Nightshift” – that one change brought the audience to their feet. That's where the idea started to re-write the song as a tribute to Michael.

“MICHAEL, he was a friend of mine”

The Commodores and Dennis Lambert (one of the original writers along with Commodores member Walter Orange and Franne Golde) have re-written the lyrics to "Nightshift" and re-recorded it with new lyrics honoring many of the great artists we have lost.

Attached is a copy mp3…We hope that you enjoy it and that radio plays it this Friday in honor of Michael on the one year anniversary of his untimely passing.


Following is an excerpt from the lyrics… Full lyrics are available upon request.

“MICHAEL, he was a friend of mine
For more than forty years, no brighter star did shine
MICHAEL, they call you, “King Of Pop”
But for your gentle soul, the pain would never stop…”

That was a sweet remake. Now THAT'S a tribute song lol

WOW! That is beautifu.

It took his passing to show us how beautiful a person he was.

Jermaine Jackson Airport Slip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoNiktXWt24

"Michael was not with us before he arrived to the Airport, I mean the hospital."

[Edited 6/24/10 8:24am]

Timmy84 said:

NaughtyKitty said:

Ummm...Janet and Latoya?

Uh how about no.

Coulda been them, but I know it aint

Swa said:

A simple request.

For the next week - can we just chill on the drama.

We are all fans (some casual, some life long, some renewed) and hopefully our appreciation of the music that we have enjoyed is what we can discuss for the next week.

Let's focus on the music, the art, the experiences.

There will be enough drama for all after the week is out.

Swa

Co-sign

b3xy said:

Today is the last day which I will be able to say 'everything was okay last year'

Gosh.....

So here is my collection.....

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/55747/chart-watch-extra-reclaiming-his-throne/

Chart Watch Extra: Reclaiming His Throne

It sounds strange to say this, but Michael Jackson is coming off one of the biggest years of his career. Jackson has sold more than 9 million albums and nearly 13 million digital tracks in the U.S. in the year since his death. He was hotter than he'd been at any time since his glory days in the ‘80s. He even achieved a career goal that had eluded him in his lifetime--a hit movie.

I think what happened in the past year is that people focused on Jackson's music for the first time in many years, and remembered how much they liked it. Sadly, it took Jackson's death for people to look past all the controversies--large and small, troubling and trivial--that turned a lot of people off.

In the year since he died, Jackson has sold 9,023,000 albums in the U.S. This has enabled him to vault from #47 on Nielsen/SoundScan's running list of the top 200 album sellers in its history (which dates to 1991) to #18 this week. That's a tremendous one-year gain.

Jackson's posthumous sales are among the most impressive in the history of the music business. Nielsen/SoundScan didn't exist when Elvis Presley died in 1977 or when John Lennon was killed in 1980, so precise comparisons aren't possible, but the Billboard charts shed some light on the matter.

With his smash compilation Number Ones, Jackson became only the 13th artist to have the best-selling album in the U.S. posthumously. And with the subsequent soundtrack to Michael Jackson's This Is It, he became one of only five artists to have the best-selling album in the U.S. with two albums after his death. Bandleader Glenn Miller and rappers 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. each had three posthumous #1 albums. Nirvana, featuring the late Kurt Cobain, had two.

Eight other artists had one posthumous #1 album: Presley and Lennon are joined on this list by Janis Joplin, Jim Croce, Selena, Aaliyah, Johnny Cash and Ray Charles.

Jackson long wanted to be a movie star, a sort of modern-day Fred Astaire. In death, he got at least part of his wish: a #1 box-office hit. Michael Jackson's This Is It topped the box-office in its opening weekend at the end of October with a domestic gross of more than $23 million.

The soundtrack album entered The Billboard 200 at #1 that same week, with first-week sales of 373,000. (It was eligible for that chart because it was a new compilation.)

That made Jackson only the sixth music star since the early ‘80s to star in a movie that came in #1 at the box-office and also spawned a #1 soundtrack (on which the star was featured). He followed Prince (1984's Purple Rain); Whitney Houston (1995's Waiting To Exhale); Will Smith (1997's Men In Black); Eminem (2002's 8 Mile); and Miley Cyrus (2009's Hannah Montana: The Movie).

Michael Jackson's This Is It grossed more than $72 million in the U.S., which made it the top-grossing music concert film in history. (The old record was held by Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus' 2008 movie Best Of Both Worlds Concert Tour, which grossed more than $65 million.) The movie grossed an additional $180 million in foreign markets for a combined worldwide gross of $252 million. It was also a hit on DVD, with U.S. DVD sales estimated at $43 million.

Beyond the box-office success, the movie helped Jackson's image because it showed him in action and in charge. And we haven't seen that side of him since his heyday. Since Bad came out in 1987, he was usually on the defensive, facing slipping sales, image problems, criminal charges, and all the rest. His life spun out of control. Here, he was seen as being in control again.

In the weeks following his death on June 25, Jackson toppled records that had stood for decades. In the week after he died, he had the three best-selling albums in the U.S.: Number Ones, The Essential Michael Jackson, and Thriller. Since 1963, when Billboard combined its separate stereo and mono charts into one comprehensive listing, no other act had accomplished that feat. (The Beatles came closest, nailing down three of the top four spots in May 1964.)

For two weeks in July, Jackson had six of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. This broke a record that had stood since April 1966, when Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass had four of the top 10.

As I noted last summer, this has a strong sense of déjà vu for me. I wrote a column for Billboard in 1983 and 1984, when Jackson was setting new records virtually every week. I never imagined that it would all happen again, and certainly not under these sad circumstances.

In the week after he died, Jackson became the first artist to sell more than 1 million digital tracks in one week. (He sold 2.6 million, obliterating the old record.) Combining solo hits with songs he recorded with his brothers, he had a staggering 49 of the top 200 titles on the Hot Digital Songs chart that week. He held down six of the top 10 spots.

In each of the first seven weeks after he died, Jackson had three of the five best-selling albums in the U.S.: His biggest seller throughout this period was Number Ones. The hit-studded collection sold more copies in the first 16 weeks after Jackson's death than it had in the five and half years between its release in November 2003 and his death. At its peak in July, Number Ones sold 349,000 copies in one week. That constituted the biggest one-week sales tally for a non-holiday catalog album in Nielsen/SoundScan history.

Number Ones logged six weeks as the best-selling album in the U.S. That was the longest that an artist who had died had the nation's top-seller since 1980-1981, when Double Fantasy, by John Lennon and his widow, Yoko Ono, topped The Billboard 200 for eight weeks. It was the longest that a greatest hits set was the best-selling album in the U.S. since 2000-2001, when the Beatles' 1 held the top spot for eight weeks. It was the longest that Jackson had the top-seller since 1987, when Bad held the top spot for six weeks.

Jackson's phenomenal posthumous success forced Billboard to change its long-time policy of excluding catalog albums from The Billboard 200. Beginning with the chart for the issue dated Dec. 5, 2009, catalog albums were able to compete alongside current product on the magazine's flagship chart. The move came too late for Jackson's albums to take their rightful places in the top 10, but it was welcome development nonetheless.

When Nielsen/SoundScan released its final sales tallies for 2009, Jackson had four of the year's top 20 albums: Number Ones at #3, Michael Jackson's This Is It at #12, Thriller at #14 and The Essential Michael Jackson at #20. This constituted a record for the SoundScan era. The old record was held by Garth Brooks, who had three of the top 20 albums of 1992. (In Brooks's case, however, all three made the year-end top 10.)

By coming in at #3 for the year, Number Ones ranked higher on Nielsen/SoundScan's year-end chart than any album ever had following the artist's death. 2Pac's All Eyez On Me was the #6 album of 1996. The Notorious B.I.G.'s Life After Death was the #6 album of 1997.

Number Ones sold 2,355,000 copies in the U.S. in 2009. It sold all but 117,000 of those copies after Jackson's death.

Jackson had seven of Nielsen/SoundScan's top 100 albums of 2009. In addition to his four albums that made the year-end top 20, Off The Wall was #66, Bad was #68 and Dangerous was #98.

Jackson had nine of the top 200 digital songs of 2009. His biggest hit was "Thriller," which sold 1,096,000 copies during the calendar year. His other top-selling songs for the year were, in descending order: "Billie Jean" (938,000), "Man In The Mirror" (890,000), "Beat It" (830,000), "The Way You Make Me Feel" (671,000), "Don't Stop ‘Til You Get Enough" (611,000), "Smooth Criminal" (605,000), "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (557,000), and "Black Or White" (511,000).

Since the digital era began, the song "Thriller" has sold 2,362,000 digital copies. Only one song from the ‘80s has outsold it. That's Journey's ubiquitous 1981 smash "Don't Stop Believin'," which has sold 3,819,000 copies. But Jackson tops the arena rock band in one respect: He has a second song on Nielsen/SoundScan's running list of the 200 best-selling digital songs in its history. "Billie Jean" has sold 1,898,000 copies in the digital era.

In the past year, Thriller has surpassed Dangerous as Jackson's best-selling album of the Nielsen/SoundScan era. Thriller has sold 5,816,000 copies since 1991. Dangerous has sold 5,786,000. This is remarkable because Thriller was released more than eight years before the start of the Nielsen/SoundScan era. By contrast, all Dangerous sales are contained in the SoundScan era.

Jackson topped charts all over the world after his death. Number Ones and The Essential Michael Jackson both reached #1 in the U.K. The latter album topped the U.K. chart for seven weeks, which was the longest run for an American artist since Justin Timberlake's Justified stayed on top for seven weeks in 2003.

Jackson also had a pair of #1 albums in Japan: King Of Pop (Japan Edition) and Michael Jackson's This Is It.

trueiopian said:

I miss him too

mookie said:

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/55747/chart-watch-extra-reclaiming-his-throne/

Chart Watch Extra: Reclaiming His Throne

It sounds strange to say this, but Michael Jackson is coming off one of the biggest years of his career. Jackson has sold more than 9 million albums and nearly 13 million digital tracks in the U.S. in the year since his death. He was hotter than he'd been at any time since his glory days in the ‘80s. He even achieved a career goal that had eluded him in his lifetime--a hit movie.

I think what happened in the past year is that people focused on Jackson's music for the first time in many years, and remembered how much they liked it. Sadly, it took Jackson's death for people to look past all the controversies--large and small, troubling and trivial--that turned a lot of people off.

In the year since he died, Jackson has sold 9,023,000 albums in the U.S. This has enabled him to vault from #47 on Nielsen/SoundScan's running list of the top 200 album sellers in its history (which dates to 1991) to #18 this week. That's a tremendous one-year gain.

Jackson's posthumous sales are among the most impressive in the history of the music business. Nielsen/SoundScan didn't exist when Elvis Presley died in 1977 or when John Lennon was killed in 1980, so precise comparisons aren't possible, but the Billboard charts shed some light on the matter.

With his smash compilation Number Ones, Jackson became only the 13th artist to have the best-selling album in the U.S. posthumously. And with the subsequent soundtrack to Michael Jackson's This Is It, he became one of only five artists to have the best-selling album in the U.S. with two albums after his death. Bandleader Glenn Miller and rappers 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. each had three posthumous #1 albums. Nirvana, featuring the late Kurt Cobain, had two.

Eight other artists had one posthumous #1 album: Presley and Lennon are joined on this list by Janis Joplin, Jim Croce, Selena, Aaliyah, Johnny Cash and Ray Charles.

Jackson long wanted to be a movie star, a sort of modern-day Fred Astaire. In death, he got at least part of his wish: a #1 box-office hit. Michael Jackson's This Is It topped the box-office in its opening weekend at the end of October with a domestic gross of more than $23 million.

The soundtrack album entered The Billboard 200 at #1 that same week, with first-week sales of 373,000. (It was eligible for that chart because it was a new compilation.)

That made Jackson only the sixth music star since the early ‘80s to star in a movie that came in #1 at the box-office and also spawned a #1 soundtrack (on which the star was featured). He followed Prince (1984's Purple Rain); Whitney Houston (1995's Waiting To Exhale); Will Smith (1997's Men In Black); Eminem (2002's 8 Mile); and Miley Cyrus (2009's Hannah Montana: The Movie).

Michael Jackson's This Is It grossed more than $72 million in the U.S., which made it the top-grossing music concert film in history. (The old record was held by Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus' 2008 movie Best Of Both Worlds Concert Tour, which grossed more than $65 million.) The movie grossed an additional $180 million in foreign markets for a combined worldwide gross of $252 million. It was also a hit on DVD, with U.S. DVD sales estimated at $43 million.

Beyond the box-office success, the movie helped Jackson's image because it showed him in action and in charge. And we haven't seen that side of him since his heyday. Since Bad came out in 1987, he was usually on the defensive, facing slipping sales, image problems, criminal charges, and all the rest. His life spun out of control. Here, he was seen as being in control again.

In the weeks following his death on June 25, Jackson toppled records that had stood for decades. In the week after he died, he had the three best-selling albums in the U.S.: Number Ones, The Essential Michael Jackson, and Thriller. Since 1963, when Billboard combined its separate stereo and mono charts into one comprehensive listing, no other act had accomplished that feat. (The Beatles came closest, nailing down three of the top four spots in May 1964.)

For two weeks in July, Jackson had six of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. This broke a record that had stood since April 1966, when Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass had four of the top 10.

As I noted last summer, this has a strong sense of déjà vu for me. I wrote a column for Billboard in 1983 and 1984, when Jackson was setting new records virtually every week. I never imagined that it would all happen again, and certainly not under these sad circumstances.

In the week after he died, Jackson became the first artist to sell more than 1 million digital tracks in one week. (He sold 2.6 million, obliterating the old record.) Combining solo hits with songs he recorded with his brothers, he had a staggering 49 of the top 200 titles on the Hot Digital Songs chart that week. He held down six of the top 10 spots.

In each of the first seven weeks after he died, Jackson had three of the five best-selling albums in the U.S.: His biggest seller throughout this period was Number Ones. The hit-studded collection sold more copies in the first 16 weeks after Jackson's death than it had in the five and half years between its release in November 2003 and his death. At its peak in July, Number Ones sold 349,000 copies in one week. That constituted the biggest one-week sales tally for a non-holiday catalog album in Nielsen/SoundScan history.

Number Ones logged six weeks as the best-selling album in the U.S. That was the longest that an artist who had died had the nation's top-seller since 1980-1981, when Double Fantasy, by John Lennon and his widow, Yoko Ono, topped The Billboard 200 for eight weeks. It was the longest that a greatest hits set was the best-selling album in the U.S. since 2000-2001, when the Beatles' 1 held the top spot for eight weeks. It was the longest that Jackson had the top-seller since 1987, when Bad held the top spot for six weeks.

Jackson's phenomenal posthumous success forced Billboard to change its long-time policy of excluding catalog albums from The Billboard 200. Beginning with the chart for the issue dated Dec. 5, 2009, catalog albums were able to compete alongside current product on the magazine's flagship chart. The move came too late for Jackson's albums to take their rightful places in the top 10, but it was welcome development nonetheless.

When Nielsen/SoundScan released its final sales tallies for 2009, Jackson had four of the year's top 20 albums: Number Ones at #3, Michael Jackson's This Is It at #12, Thriller at #14 and The Essential Michael Jackson at #20. This constituted a record for the SoundScan era. The old record was held by Garth Brooks, who had three of the top 20 albums of 1992. (In Brooks's case, however, all three made the year-end top 10.)

By coming in at #3 for the year, Number Ones ranked higher on Nielsen/SoundScan's year-end chart than any album ever had following the artist's death. 2Pac's All Eyez On Me was the #6 album of 1996. The Notorious B.I.G.'s Life After Death was the #6 album of 1997.

Number Ones sold 2,355,000 copies in the U.S. in 2009. It sold all but 117,000 of those copies after Jackson's death.

Jackson had seven of Nielsen/SoundScan's top 100 albums of 2009. In addition to his four albums that made the year-end top 20, Off The Wall was #66, Bad was #68 and Dangerous was #98.

Jackson had nine of the top 200 digital songs of 2009. His biggest hit was "Thriller," which sold 1,096,000 copies during the calendar year. His other top-selling songs for the year were, in descending order: "Billie Jean" (938,000), "Man In The Mirror" (890,000), "Beat It" (830,000), "The Way You Make Me Feel" (671,000), "Don't Stop ‘Til You Get Enough" (611,000), "Smooth Criminal" (605,000), "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (557,000), and "Black Or White" (511,000).

Since the digital era began, the song "Thriller" has sold 2,362,000 digital copies. Only one song from the ‘80s has outsold it. That's Journey's ubiquitous 1981 smash "Don't Stop Believin'," which has sold 3,819,000 copies. But Jackson tops the arena rock band in one respect: He has a second song on Nielsen/SoundScan's running list of the 200 best-selling digital songs in its history. "Billie Jean" has sold 1,898,000 copies in the digital era.

In the past year, Thriller has surpassed Dangerous as Jackson's best-selling album of the Nielsen/SoundScan era. Thriller has sold 5,816,000 copies since 1991. Dangerous has sold 5,786,000. This is remarkable because Thriller was released more than eight years before the start of the Nielsen/SoundScan era. By contrast, all Dangerous sales are contained in the SoundScan era.

Jackson topped charts all over the world after his death. Number Ones and The Essential Michael Jackson both reached #1 in the U.K. The latter album topped the U.K. chart for seven weeks, which was the longest run for an American artist since Justin Timberlake's Justified stayed on top for seven weeks in 2003.

Jackson also had a pair of #1 albums in Japan: King Of Pop (Japan Edition) and Michael Jackson's This Is It.

Of course the bittersweet thing about this is that Michael's not here to smell the roses.

EmeraldSkies said:

nice! really cool collection!

Look at this.. tell me Michael was not someone special.

BET: The BET Awards (June 27, 8-11:00 p.m.) Queen Latifah hosts the 10th annual Awards from Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium. Along with performances from T.I., Kanye West, Usher, T-Pain, Alicia Keys, and Eminem, a Michael Jackson tribute has been added to the lineup.

TV Guide Network: Gone Too Soon (Friday, June 25, 9-11:00 p.m.) Ian Halperin, New York Times’ No. 1 bestselling author of Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, spent five years researching Jackson and declared in December 2008 that the King of Pop had only six months to live. He was only off by one day. Halperin directs this documentary about the factors that he believes contributed to Jackson’s untimely death.

CBS: The Early Show (Friday, June 25, 7-9:00 a.m.) The entire 8 a.m. hour, billed as “The King of Pop: One Year Later,” will see Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez, Julie Chen & Co. hosting a special tribute performance by James Morrison in London. Also on hand will be guests Christina Aguilera, Marc Anthony, and Smokey Robinson, who will share what Michael Jackson’s music has meant to them.

Animal Planet: Michael Jackson and Bubbles: The Untold Story (Thursday, June 24, 8-9:00 p.m., 11 p.m.-12:00 a.m.) For those who’ve absolutely exhausted all other aspects of Jackson’s life and career, this one-hour special, about MJ’s primate compadre, was probably inevitable, right?

CNN: Michael Jackson—The Final Days (Friday, June 25, 8-9 p.m.) CNN’s Don Lemon talks with Jermaine and Tito Jackson about their brother’s death and drug abuse. Also on hand is Jackson crony Dr. Deepak Chopra and famed choreographer Travis Payne, who shares details about working with Michael Jackson on preparations for his “This is It!” tour.

FUSE: Michael Jackson: The Inside Story (Friday, June 25, 8-9:30 p.m.) The bigger the celebrity, the more outlandish the conspiracy theories surrounding his or her death. This new doc examines claims (including those from Joe and La Toya Jackson) that Michael was murdered.

MTV: Michael Jackson’s Top 10 Video Countdown (Friday June 25, 5-6:30 p.m., Saturday June 26, 8-9:30 a.m.) MTV determines MJ’s Top 10 videos based on the number of views each has received on MTV.com. The special features running text commentary, Jackson’s VMA performances, and rare interviews he granted MTV.

MTV: Michael Jackson’s Influence on Music (Friday June 25, 6:30-7:30 p.m.) A compilation of videos featuring top music artists discussing Michael Jackson’s influence on their work.

OTHER LISTINGS:

ABC
20/20: Michael Jackson (Friday, June 25, 9-11 p.m.)

BET
BET Awards 2009 encore (Thursday, June 24, 7:30 p.m.-11 p.m.) Last year’s awards, which aired just days after Michael Jackson’s death, where host Jamie Foxx performed his own incredibly awkward Moonwalk.

Michael Jackson: Life of a Superstar (Friday, June 25, 1-2 p.m.)

Inside the Michael Jackson Mansion: Never Can Say Goodbye (Friday, June 25, 2-3 p.m.)

106 & Park (Friday, June 25^th, 6-8 p.m.) The 106 gang devotes their “Freestyle Friday” to counting down Michael Jackson’s greatest videos.

Michael Jackson History: The King of Pop (Friday June 25, 8-10 p.m.)

FUSE
Michael Jackson: A Tribute (Friday, June 25, 9:30-10:30 p.m.)

MTV
Michael Jackson’s Music Videos (Saturday, June 26, 6-8 a.m.)

NBC
Dateline NBC (Friday, June 25, 9-11 p.m.) The first hour of Dateline will include Michael Jackson coverage.

QVC
Michael Jackson Music and Memories (Friday, June 25, 11 p.m.-12 a.m.)

TV Guide Network
Michael Jackson: His Family Dynasty (Friday, June 25, 7-8 p.m.)

Hollywood 411: Michael Jackson (Friday, June 25, 8-9 p.m.)

TV One
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration (Friday, June 25, 8-10 p.m.; Saturday June 26, 12-2 a.m.)

Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story (Friday, June 25, 10 p.m.-12 a.m.; Saturday, June 26, 2-4 a.m.)

VH1
The Jacksons: An American Dream (Friday June 25, 12-5 p.m.)

Famous Crime Scene: Michael Jackson (Friday June 25, 11:30 p.m.-12 a.m.)

VH1 Classics
Famous Crime Scene: Michael Jackson (Friday, June 25, 9-9:30 a.m.; 4:30-5 p.m.)

The Jacksons: An American Dream (Friday, June 25, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; 6 p.m.-11 p.m.)

Michael Jackson Video Retrospective (Friday June 25, 2:30-4:30 p.m.)

To Satisfy You (Michael's solo version hasn't been released or leaked)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBm1cVd1rtU

Work That Body (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goF5zjP8V2w

Do The Bartman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0A6xF0mmA8

Serious Effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeKiZCF-y3s

She Got It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZWXFf4UhI8

Superfly Sister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r59yAGGDXT0

If You Don't Love Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfguD98bJ-8

For All Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUswfxAkLME

Monkey Business

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp6C51sYp0A

Someone Put Your Hand Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJiQt7A4m7Q

I've just been stood on my front step having a crafty ciggy before bedtime and staring at the moon, it's nearly full i think. The moon to me nowadays, always brings Mike to mind. I wasn't thinking about the moonwalk but the moon in 'Thriller'. I raised my glass to him while listening to The Commodores MJ version of 'Nightshift'. Got all teary, damnit.

Tough day tomorrow.

All those that care, we'll get through, but it's damn emotional. I used to find Elvis and Lennon fans kinda funny on the anniversaries, but it's awful to finally understand.

'Night.

Please Light A Candle For Michael.

http://www.gratefulness.o...amp;gi=USA

[Edited 6/24/10 16:04pm]

Just received my "Never Can Say Goodbye" book and I have to say it is lovingly put together. Obviously a lot of time has been spent selecting pictures and in the writing.

A fitting tribute on today.

RIP MJ

bboy87 said:

To Satisfy You (Michael's solo version hasn't been released or leaked)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBm1cVd1rtU

Work That Body (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goF5zjP8V2w

Do The Bartman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0A6xF0mmA8

Serious Effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeKiZCF-y3s

She Got It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZWXFf4UhI8

Superfly Sister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r59yAGGDXT0

If You Don't Love Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfguD98bJ-8

For All Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUswfxAkLME

Monkey Business

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp6C51sYp0A

Someone Put Your Hand Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJiQt7A4m7Q

The link you posted takes me to a video that says "Bryan Loren-to satisfy you (FEATURING MICHAEL JACKSON)".

Marrk said:

I've just been stood on my front step having a crafty ciggy before bedtime and staring at the moon, it's nearly full i think. The moon to me nowadays, always brings Mike to mind. I wasn't thinking about the moonwalk but the moon in 'Thriller'. I raised my glass to him while listening to The Commodores MJ version of 'Nightshift'. Got all teary, damnit.

Tough day tomorrow.

All those that care, we'll get through, but it's damn emotional. I used to find Elvis and Lennon fans kinda funny on the anniversaries, but it's awful to finally understand.

'Night.

that's interesting that you mention the moon being full,last night I went out onto my porch to get something,and the moon was casting a glow down on it. At first I thought somebody was shining there headlights toward my house. It was very cool.

Swa said:

Just received my "Never Can Say Goodbye" book and I have to say it is lovingly put together. Obviously a lot of time has been spent selecting pictures and in the writing.

A fitting tribute on today.

RIP MJ

Where did you get the book Swa?