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Posthumous Jackson record nearly ready, likely to launch on Sony phone
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 10 March 2014
A new album of previously unreleased Michael Jackson tracks is near completion, but will reportedly first surface as exclusive content on a new high-end Sony smart phone.
Meaning fans will have to shell out for the expensive device if they want immediate access to the new recordings, which will presumably then be made available via more traditional means in due course.
LA Reid, now in charge at Jackson’s long-time label, Sony’s Epic Records, is personally overseeing the new album, which will see unreleased recordings by the late king of pop made into full tracks, with Timbaland producing several of them. A sixty second snippet of one song appeared online over the weekend, very possibly the bit of the new album that is expected to soundtrack the ad for the Sony Xperia phone that will come preloaded with the new recordings.