Thriller (Michael Jackson album) the opinion that he was a "musical phenomenon" and that "in the world of pop music, there is Michael Jackson and there is everybody else". Jackson changed the way the industry functioned: both as an artistic persona and as a financial, profitable entity. His attorney John Branca observed that Jackson achieved the highest royalty rate in the music industry to that point: approximately $2 (US$ in dollars) for each album sold. As a result, Jackson earned record-breaking profits from compact disc sales and from the sale of copies of the documentary, "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller", produced by Jackson
Michael Jackson's This Is It (album) as a compact disc and on the iTunes Store as a digital download. As planned, "This Is It" was released on October 26, 2009 in the US and worldwide on October 27 and 28. The press release announcing the two-disc album describes it as a "stand-alone companion" to the motion picture. "This Is It" was released as a two-disc compilation album. The first disc consists of 16 tracks, 14 of which were already released on Jackson's previous studio albums: "Thriller" (1982), "Bad" (1987), "Dangerous" (1991) and "" (1995), and one from The Jacksons' album "Destiny" (1978). The album does not