Eric
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Earth Song wasn't even released un US. They would like it if it was released. Stupid stupid move by MJ and Sony Music. It would have been a major hit released after #1 hit single You Are Not Alone. That was their biggest mistake in the whole HIStory promo. They were aiming to release This Time Around instead (which would be another major hit in the US), but they didn't when MJ collapsed and One Night Only show got cancelled.
They Don't Care About Us would have been hit in US if there wasn't such a big gap between second single (You Are Not Alone) and third (TDCAU). People forgot about HIStory by then, especially without MJ touring there. And on top of all that don't forget radio boycotting the song, media backlash and false "controversy" constructed by various organizations about the lyrics. That song was doomed in US, and every other single from HIStory released after.
BOTDF came out almost without any promo. HIStory/Ghosts was not released there. And SIM just came way too late (in late 1997!). That song if released earlier (maybe after YANA) would have become a big hit in US.
Earth Song was released in the USA! There wasn't a physical single, but the song was sent to radio and the video was sent to MTV. The physical single of Earth Song wasn't released in the USA in hopes of boosting album sales for HIStory. I remember Earth Song was the number one video on the MTV countdown soon after it's release in the USA.