The lasting impact of Michael Jackson's Invincible

I'm turning 21 this May, and when I talk to people in my age group, they love quite a few of the songs off of this record.

I was a hater until a few years ago, "just because", until I actually sat down and listened to it without thinking about any existing thoughts I had on it. There are some amazing tracks on Invincible. I think, with better promotion, it would have obviously sold much better and a few more of the songs might've been "iconic" or early 2000s hits.

I think the lasting impact or legacy of Invincible is the fact that Michael Jackson's "lowest point" was still 10x larger in terms of sales than what most artists could ever hope to achieve. It reminds me just how huge that man was. Sorry for the ramble, I am just always happy to talk about this underrated gem.
 
I think the lasting impact or legacy of Invincible is the fact that Michael Jackson's "lowest point" was still 10x larger in terms of sales than what most artists could ever hope to achieve.

Sure, "most artists" don't release multiplatinum albums, but most relevant artists released albums that did just as well or even better than Invincible in the early, mid 2000s. If your album wasn't selling at least a couple of million, then you weren't in the discussion.
 
Even today, Whatever Happens can still impress.
This striking re-imagining of “Stranger in Moscow” sets the stage for “Whatever Happens,” a collaboration between Santana and Jackson from the latter’s 2001 Invincible album. The contrast between the two tracks is undeniable, with Jackson’s voice in “Whatever Happens” sounding almost like a resurrection, evoking a sense of reverence and reflection.
 
The record industry was at its lowest since the last time MJ came to the rescue (remember thriller?) and Invincible holds the record for fastest selling album of all time. This speaks volumes and we were robbed.
 
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Asked if he planned to include any songs from Sentient in his upcoming concerts, Carlos said, “Yes, we’ll incorporate probably ‘Don’t Take Your Love Away’ and ‘Whatever Happens.’ [And] maybe one of those songs like ‘Get On’ with Paolo Rustichelli and Miles.”
 
I watch a lot of reaction videos on YouTube, including for Invincible. A recurring theme is that these zoomers can't believe they never heard some of the songs. I saw one recently who had a full on meltdown at Heaven Can Wait saying it was the best song he had ever heard.
 
Michael Jackson’s “Heaven Can Wait” Used In New TikTok Trend
August 14, 2025
One recent TikTok trend is people discouraging others from using “Dad Waves”, “Mom Waves” and “Kid Waves” in their greetings, set to Michael Jackson’s “Heaven Can Wait”. Don’t know what we mean? Here are a few examples. Set your own social media trend using Michael Jackson official sounds and tag them #MyMJClips.
 
As gen z/new fans discover the album, I think it will have a different following. Heaven can wait trending on tiktok is a perfect example.

Slightly off topic comparison, but you could argue invincible is similar to the star wars prequels. Somewhat negative reception at release, then years later ended up finding a new generation to appreciate it (myself included).
 
A lot of young fans love Invincible, it still sounds very fresh in a lot of places
I would suggest they are the best audience for actually judging it on its merits as they are not viewing it through the lens of his previous successes.

I think people would not be so harsh on it if the whole marketing around it wasn't sabotaged and it came near to its commercial potential.
 
Don't you find it ironic that an album called Invincible is constantly subject to battles? First against the record company, then against the press, and then against the fans.
So many struggles, but the album is still there. It is simply invincible.
Well, it's not like it's gonna be removed from the music stores and Spotify 👀
 
🧚‍♀️ 🙏 🧚‍♀️ Michael's INVINCIBLE - HIS WAR CRY Album
I BELEIEVE it will BE exactly like all his other GROUNDBREAKING, WORLD CHANGING music accross the entire world, there are fans and mj lovers being born every day, this album will climb and climb like all of them with new fans loving every song on it like every other album of Michael's musical legacy period. They will carry Michael's Legacy long after we are gone EVERY MJ ALBUM & SONG & WORK WILL RISE HIGHER THEN WE WILL EVER SEE! As it should be FOREVER for Michael!!

The sheer fact that what SONY & TOMMY DEVIL tried every lowdown, under-handed scam in the book they did to try to block, destroy, deminish, and attacks to limit the susccess of his last album with them and the illegal tricks they did to make sure this album never made it in the highest sales or into fans hands via record stores etc., clearly proves SONY wanted to make sure Michael felt powerless, and under THEIR control
Sony Music. "Quoted from another source: "At its peak the headbutting involved Sony ceasing promotion for Invincible shortly after its release (after Jackson informed the label he would not be renewing his contract) with them. 👉"Invincible predictably got lost in the entire melee"
The BETRAYAL of his own record label that put all of it's racist and elitist money, power and influence behind purposefully destroying their OWN ARTISTS that paid them very well and dearly. And not just any artist they came for MICHAEL'S LEGACY, CAREER AND HIS ENTIRE FAN BASE with premediation, racist practices and 100% malice.
Phoney Sony did not win the WAR of course INVINCIBLE sold faster than THRILLER in the beginning in record sales, even AFTER Phoney Sony's tricks and underhanded efforts to make it fail commercially, THEY FAILED! Once Phoney Sony saw the sales BLOW UP faster than THRILLER they clearly knew they failed to bring Michael to his knees in front of them. They only proved Michael right that they were EXACTLY WHO HE SAID THEY WERE 1000%. They loved to forget that Michael was a fighter because he is so polite and well mannered, they took it for his greatest weakness oh but when you ATTACK HIM & HIS FANS, they created the perfect motivation for Michael to stand up STRONG for EVERY ARTIST! Phoney Sony wanted to believe so badly that they would be the ones to finally put MICHAEL JACKSON in his place and deminish the power and control of his creativity he had in every boardroom Michael entered. They could not stand the fact that he ALWAYS had the power to make his own rules, Phoney Sony bosses must of lost so much sleep trying find the angles that would take Michael down all the pegs so they could get the upper hand over him like all their other artists they leeched off of day in and day out the bled every single one of their Artists without any accountability awith acts of impunity that controlled as they took their money!

THEY FAILED AGAIN AND AGAIN! This type of failure repeatedly by Phoney Sony must have created hurt the execs egos badly and create a deeply toxic, negative, ego manical enviroment for Michael to be forced to tolerate and still try to work to make his MUSICAL MAGIC as they tried to leash him and dominate and bully Michael like THEY were his personal PUPPETEER at their will!

It hurts my soul to think about how long Michael privately suffered and said not one word and nothing bad about what they must have been doing to him behind closed doors with them behind our backs smiling in our faces!

I do not believe for 1 second this album could have EVER NOT BEEN BIGGER than it was because of the criminal interference, the personal racial hatred they had for their BIGGEST Artist Michael Jackson and every malicious tactic they had to play to make it that way to destroy his power in anyway they could. This is what PHONEY SONY really does to the Artist they say the love, support and represent.
To me INVINCIBLE was Michael's silent yet masterful WAR CRY, this album in now way could ever be a FAILURE because Michael knew he had already made the decision to leave the LEECHES and he knew it would not be easy, just like Motown their woud be a PRICE TO PAY but keep walking anyway in FAITH that justice for him would be served by his morals.

Michael also knew he wanted as always to give his FANS the new songs we waited for and 1000% deserved and he wanted us to have it!
There will always be MJ songs/albums some fans like and there are some songs fans won't like but that is the way it is in this music industry, no one can please everyone and Michael knew this fact painfully and he still made this album for US HIS FANS NOT SONY!
I love so many songs on this album because of the new vibes and more mature vocal content of these new elevating compilations he wanted us to hear from his heart and soul!
We as fans do not and have nor ever needed to explain what MJ songs we love as our favorites because each of our fav MJ songs is OUR OWN to LOVE and cherish without any explanation for loving what we love of his musical genius.
That is the point, there are millions of MJ Fans that LOVE LOVE LOVE this album and I am proudly one of them! I am so grateful to Michael for making the songs on this album particularily because it saved me from the devestation of losing him, I turned to every Michael song to have that musical piece of his soul that he puts in ALL HIS MUSIC and his Invincible album was no different in this regard his creative process!
I could never live in a world where ALL OF MICHAEL'S MUSIC IS NOT IN IT AND I MEAN ALL OF IT !!

Michael will never be diminished by any one nor anything or any event .. he is UNTOUCHABLE, he is UNBEATABLE, he is BREAKABLE..
HE IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE INVINCIBLE!

Michael always plays the LONG GAME and HE WILL AND WE WILL have the last laughs at every single MJ HATER I know it without a single DOUBT! 💞

🧚‍♀️💞🙏👉Thank you so much for listening and letting me express my own opinion regarding this outstanding MJ Album!
I totally respect everyones difference of opinions it is what makes us such loving, loyal and forever MJ FANS!!!❤️
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Michael Jackson’s career was so groundbreaking and successful that he was awarded numerous Guinness World Records. Among those awards, Michael was recognized in 2006 as “the first entertainer to have officially ratified sales of more than 100 million albums outside the USA.”
Michael’s Guinness World Record is all the more significant as it was based on sales of six albums released from 1979 through 2001. Michael worked extensively on each of his albums, and each release stayed on the charts for long periods of time, which meant he did not release a new project every year. That limited number of albums – Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, and his last album, Invincible – had to generate significant sales to achieve such a milestone. To date, those albums received official sales certifications that far exceeded what Guinness World Records determined back in 2006, and Michael’s total worldwide record sales currently exceed 1 billion.​
 
🧚‍♀️ 🙏 🧚‍♀️ Michael's INVINCIBLE - HIS WAR CRY Album
I BELEIEVE it will BE exactly like all his other GROUNDBREAKING, WORLD CHANGING music accross the entire world, there are fans and mj lovers being born every day, this album will climb and climb like all of them with new fans loving every song on it like every other album of Michael's musical legacy period. They will carry Michael's Legacy long after we are gone EVERY MJ ALBUM & SONG & WORK WILL RISE HIGHER THEN WE WILL EVER SEE! As it should be FOREVER for Michael!!

The sheer fact that what SONY & TOMMY DEVIL tried every lowdown, under-handed scam in the book they did to try to block, destroy, deminish, and attacks to limit the susccess of his last album with them and the illegal tricks they did to make sure this album never made it in the highest sales or into fans hands via record stores etc., clearly proves SONY wanted to make sure Michael felt powerless, and under THEIR control
Sony Music. "Quoted from another source: "At its peak the headbutting involved Sony ceasing promotion for Invincible shortly after its release (after Jackson informed the label he would not be renewing his contract) with them. 👉"Invincible predictably got lost in the entire melee"
The BETRAYAL of his own record label that put all of it's racist and elitist money, power and influence behind purposefully destroying their OWN ARTISTS that paid them very well and dearly. And not just any artist they came for MICHAEL'S LEGACY, CAREER AND HIS ENTIRE FAN BASE with premediation, racist practices and 100% malice.
Phoney Sony did not win the WAR of course INVINCIBLE sold faster than THRILLER in the beginning in record sales, even AFTER Phoney Sony's tricks and underhanded efforts to make it fail commercially, THEY FAILED! Once Phoney Sony saw the sales BLOW UP faster than THRILLER they clearly knew they failed to bring Michael to his knees in front of them. They only proved Michael right that they were EXACTLY WHO HE SAID THEY WERE 1000%. They loved to forget that Michael was a fighter because he is so polite and well mannered, they took it for his greatest weakness oh but when you ATTACK HIM & HIS FANS, they created the perfect motivation for Michael to stand up STRONG for EVERY ARTIST! Phoney Sony wanted to believe so badly that they would be the ones to finally put MICHAEL JACKSON in his place and deminish the power and control of his creativity he had in every boardroom Michael entered. They could not stand the fact that he ALWAYS had the power to make his own rules, Phoney Sony bosses must of lost so much sleep trying find the angles that would take Michael down all the pegs so they could get the upper hand over him like all their other artists they leeched off of day in and day out the bled every single one of their Artists without any accountability awith acts of impunity that controlled as they took their money!

THEY FAILED AGAIN AND AGAIN! This type of failure repeatedly by Phoney Sony must have created hurt the execs egos badly and create a deeply toxic, negative, ego manical enviroment for Michael to be forced to tolerate and still try to work to make his MUSICAL MAGIC as they tried to leash him and dominate and bully Michael like THEY were his personal PUPPETEER at their will!

It hurts my soul to think about how long Michael privately suffered and said not one word and nothing bad about what they must have been doing to him behind closed doors with them behind our backs smiling in our faces!

I do not believe for 1 second this album could have EVER NOT BEEN BIGGER than it was because of the criminal interference, the personal racial hatred they had for their BIGGEST Artist Michael Jackson and every malicious tactic they had to play to make it that way to destroy his power in anyway they could. This is what PHONEY SONY really does to the Artist they say the love, support and represent.
To me INVINCIBLE was Michael's silent yet masterful WAR CRY, this album in now way could ever be a FAILURE because Michael knew he had already made the decision to leave the LEECHES and he knew it would not be easy, just like Motown their woud be a PRICE TO PAY but keep walking anyway in FAITH that justice for him would be served by his morals.

Michael also knew he wanted as always to give his FANS the new songs we waited for and 1000% deserved and he wanted us to have it!
There will always be MJ songs/albums some fans like and there are some songs fans won't like but that is the way it is in this music industry, no one can please everyone and Michael knew this fact painfully and he still made this album for US HIS FANS NOT SONY!
I love so many songs on this album because of the new vibes and more mature vocal content of these new elevating compilations he wanted us to hear from his heart and soul!
We as fans do not and have nor ever needed to explain what MJ songs we love as our favorites because each of our fav MJ songs is OUR OWN to LOVE and cherish without any explanation for loving what we love of his musical genius.
That is the point, there are millions of MJ Fans that LOVE LOVE LOVE this album and I am proudly one of them! I am so grateful to Michael for making the songs on this album particularily because it saved me from the devestation of losing him, I turned to every Michael song to have that musical piece of his soul that he puts in ALL HIS MUSIC and his Invincible album was no different in this regard his creative process!
I could never live in a world where ALL OF MICHAEL'S MUSIC IS NOT IN IT AND I MEAN ALL OF IT !!

Michael will never be diminished by any one nor anything or any event .. he is UNTOUCHABLE, he is UNBEATABLE, he is BREAKABLE..
HE IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE INVINCIBLE!

Michael always plays the LONG GAME and HE WILL AND WE WILL have the last laughs at every single MJ HATER I know it without a single DOUBT! 💞

🧚‍♀️💞🙏👉Thank you so much for listening and letting me express my own opinion regarding this outstanding MJ Album!
I totally respect everyones difference of opinions it is what makes us such loving, loyal and forever MJ FANS!!!❤️
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827a2c2b57490ad5fca258fc9076f106.jpg


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Michael Jackson’s career was so groundbreaking and successful that he was awarded numerous Guinness World Records. Among those awards, Michael was recognized in 2006 as “the first entertainer to have officially ratified sales of more than 100 million albums outside the USA.”
Michael’s Guinness World Record is all the more significant as it was based on sales of six albums released from 1979 through 2001. Michael worked extensively on each of his albums, and each release stayed on the charts for long periods of time, which meant he did not release a new project every year. That limited number of albums – Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, and his last album, Invincible – had to generate significant sales to achieve such a milestone. To date, those albums received official sales certifications that far exceeded what Guinness World Records determined back in 2006, and Michael’s total worldwide record sales currently exceed 1 billion.​
that is a college type essay
 
You remind me of a poster from the old Kop board decades ago.
@Ganesh 💞 OMG thank you so much wow I am so grateful that I belong to this LOVING MJ Community right here at MJJC!
I have never heard of the old Kop board decades ago, but if you were there it must have been a beautiful place to LOVE MICHAEL🙌!!
Hope you have an awesome day!

🧚‍♀️🫶🧚‍♀️
 
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