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mj_frenzy;4276534 said:About ‘Earth Song’ there is also another interesting thing.
English singer Tony Mortimer (and former member of the English band East 17) claimed that Michael Jackson was about to release in Europe the ‘Earth Song’ single a year earlier (in November 1994), but the huge chart and commercial success of the band’s ‘Stay Another Day’ single in Europe made Michael Jackson delay the single release of his ‘Earth Song’ for one year (November 1995).
If Tony Mortimer is telling the truth about that, then this clearly indicates that the ‘HIStory’ album was originally about to get a release in 1994, with a different order of commercially released singles.
This doesn’t make sense because of a multitude of reasons:
•The song hit Nr.1 on December 4th in the U.K, so not in November.
•Although the song was obviously successful, it wasn’t a Nr. 1 hit in most countries. It hit Nr.21 in Italy, Nr.15 in Iceland, Nr.15 in Finland, Nr.12 in Japan, Nr.7 in France and Nr.5 in the Netherlands.
So, not even close to most of MJ’s singles in terms of success
•Why would Michael delay the single until one year later and not by a couple of months if he was scared of that particular song’s success in Europe?
•Do you really believe that ‘Earth Song’ was going to be the album’s lead single?
•Also, Michael still needed to record the song’s ad-libs in November 1994. In fact, he recorded them in around March 1995 since they were the very last thing he recorded for the HIStory album.
mj_frenzy;4277263 said:Remember that Michael Jackson had some really bad experiences in the past when his singles, or even his albums, were knocked out of the charts by other artists/bands.
Like, what the American rock band Nirvana did to him few years before, when the band’s ‘Nevermind’ album knocked his ‘Dangerous’ album out of the Billboard Top 200 albums chart category (on January 11th, 1992).
That particular case in 1992 came as a shock to Michael Jackson, when he witnessed his ‘Dangerous’ album to lose the top position because of the ‘Nevermind’ album.
But Nirvana were huge in 1992. I don’t know how shocked Michael was because his album had been Nr.1 for weeks at that point.
I mean, your album can’t be Nr.1 forever.