The Essential Michael Jackson by Jackson. A re-titled release in the UK was planned on July 6, 2009 as "The Hits", but was cancelled upon Jackson's death. As of 2018, the album was certified 4× platinum in the US. The Essential Michael Jackson The Essential Michael Jackson is a greatest hits compilation album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released on July 19, 2005, by Sony Music's catalog division Legacy Recordings as part of "The Essential" series. The two-disc compilation features thirty-eight hit songs by Michael Jackson, from his days at Motown Records with The Jackson 5 in the late 1960s and early
Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970. "I Want You Back" became the blueprint for future Jackson 5 recordings: there was now less of an emphasis on traditional soul, and more prominent elements of doo-wop and bubblegum pop music. In fact, Motown's publicity department dubbed the Jackson 5's sound "bubblegum soul". Gordy, Richards, Mizell, and Perren also contributed the album track "Nobody" to "Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5"; left out was Taylor, although he later performed uncredited production work on the second Jackson 5 album, "ABC" and its singles. All of the songs produced and written by Gordy,