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You Rock My World Sequel/Follow-up?

Spaceship said:
Nah the 30m figure was an exaggeration. I don't deny it cost far more than a penny to make the album but most expensive album ever made, it is not lol



Not years before. "You Rock My World" leaked just a few days before its official release in August 2001, by which point it was already set to be the lead single.
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You’re right. I was thinking summer of 2000(a year 😂) but it was indeed the same year. I remember the voice tag on it.
 
AdhesiveAaron said:
It was just a bad time. The later years were fine. That's what I'm guessing anyway, since everything was quiet between the two after 2003/4.
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Because he was retired from music,he was writing songs during that time though,he was gonna drop another album then,that's what I heard
 
mj_frenzy said:
Michael Jackson wanted to release the most expensive album of all time apparently also due to his vanity
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I can believe this. Ultimately, Sony can say any figure they want. If you want to say you recorded the most expensive album of all time, all you've got to do is make up a bigger number than everybody else. (See also Scream and Captain EO both claiming to be the most expensive video of all time)

I doubt it cost more than Chinese Democracy, but it really doesn't matter.

In any case, no album should cost that much. That's just silly. 2001 was well into the digital age, which brought down recording costs significantly. Invincible didn't even have that many real instruments on it.
 
R1chard said:
I can believe this. Ultimately, Sony can say any figure they want. If you want to say you recorded the most expensive album of all time, all you've got to do is make up a bigger number than everybody else. (See also Scream and Captain EO both claiming to be the most expensive video of all time)

I doubt it cost more than Chinese Democracy, but it really doesn't matter.

In any case, no album should cost that much. That's just silly. 2001 was well into the digital age, which brought down recording costs significantly. Invincible didn't even have that many real instruments on it.
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Note also that (for the 'Invincible' album) many other songs had been recorded and produced before 2001 (i.e., in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000).

Although these songs did not eventually make the album, yet they did contribute significantly to the album's huge costs.

There is also another important factor: the record company was paying huge amounts of money to 5-star hotels in which top producers and songwriters were staying during that long period of making the album.
 
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