11 albums, published after his death

May 13, 2014 will be a new Michael Jackson album Xscape, which will include eight of unknown and previously unreleased songs. The record will be made by means of a combat brigade of the best music producers in America led by Timbaland, designed to "refresh and modernize" the material found the head of Epic Records DLA Reed in the archives of the King, accumulated over 40 years of his career.

Jackson died June 25, 2009, and in March 2010 his record company Sony (a division which is Epic Records) signed a contract with the members of his family to release seven posthumous albums of the actor with the right to use all remaining after the musical materials and paid for this record for the industry of $ 250 million. according to the law after the death of the author of the musical work exclusive rights to them shall pass by inheritance to his relatives, who are allowed or not allowed to use them in the future (other artists or, as in this case - music producers).

The album still six months before the gain powerful advertising support, will be the second release postmortem Jackson, comprising the original material and be able to repeat the commercial success plate Michael, issued six months after the death of the singer and sold in an amount of more than 3 million copies.

In anticipation of this event remember 10 posthumous albums, someone extended, and someone for the first time presented a real honor and a belated commercial success.

Jimi Hendrix "People, Hell and Angels"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 2013

After the death of Jimi Hendrix left about 1,500 hours of unreleased musical material, and the number of his posthumous album several times exceeded his lifetime discography. Last official posthumous Hendrix releases - People, Hell and Angels - was released in honor of the 70th anniversary of the musician's birth. Most of the songs included in his record during jam sessions in 1968 and 1969 with the participation of bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, who played in one of the short-term projects Hendrix - Band of Gypsys. Success: People, Hell and Angels debuted on the second line of Billboard 200 in its first week sold over 70,000 copies and became one of the most commercially successful releases of Hendrix in 44 years (second only to Electric Ladyland 1968, which is two weeks ranked first a place).

Amy Winehouse "Lioness: Hidden Treasures"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 2011

Amy Winehouse as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain, died at the age of 27, and not having understood with alcohol and drugs and recorded only two, but stunning, album. She lived, sang and left the life according to the laws of rock 'n' roll - poisoned by alcohol after three and a half years after receiving a record five "Grammy" to a ceremony for the record Back to Black, in 2011, recognized the best-selling release of the XXI century Great Britain.

In the post-mortem, which was released in December 2011 Lioness: Hidden Treasures includes alternate versions of classic hits of the singer and several previously unreleased songs. Cover Lioness: Hidden Treasures was the photograph taken by the singer Bryan Adams in 2007, on Caribbean villa where the singer took one of several rehabilitation courses.

Success: Lioness: Hidden Treasures debuted in fifth place of Billboard 200 upon its release led UK Albums Chart and the first week of sales sold in the UK in the amount of 194 966 copies.

Johnny Cash "American VI: Is not No Grave"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 2010Clozhno believe it, but the American VI: Is not No Grave - a second posthumous album of Johnny Cash - was the 94th in his discography. His first release the singer released in 1957, and then experienced a 20-year rise in popularity and a 10-year decline, and in 1994, when he was already deeply elderly and many have seen the man, he met with producer Rick Rubin (who worked with the Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers and come to bring together the Run DMC and Aerosmith) and with it returned the bygone glory. Rubin invented American series consists of six albums, four of which were written during the life of the Cache - from 1994 to 2002, and two issued posthumously - in 2006 and 2010.

Success: The sixth part came three days before the 78th anniversary of Cash's, reached third place in the Billboard 200 in its first week of sales has sold 54,000 copies.

Ray Charles "Genius Loves Company"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 2004

"Genius" (one of the official nickname of Ray Charles) really "love your company" - for 55 years of professional experience, he more than 250 participated in the records of other people's songs as a guest. The latter, released two months after the death of the album became his first own collection of duets. A year after the release Genius Loves Company, including a duet with BB King, Diana Krall, Elton John, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt and Willie Nelson, was nominated for 10 "Grammy" and won eight statuettes.

Success: Genius Loves Company became the most commercially successful album of Ray Charles for his entire career - debuted in second place in the Billboard chart and for the first week of sales sold in the amount of 200 000 copies. Released August 31, 2004 the album reached number one on the Billboard chart in March 2005, becoming the first release of the musician, who led the major US hits.

Tupac Shakur "Until The End of Time"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 2001

Career rapper glorified the West Coast in the golden years of American hip-hop, was short-lived, and bright. All my life poetically fought with the East Coast Shakur, oddly enough, I was born in New York, grew up in Baltimore (the city in which the action unfolds series "The Wire") and the only 17-year moved to California. Shot dead at the age of 25 years, he managed to trade drugs, stay in prison on suspicion of rape, sverhuspeshnyh release five albums, to quarrel with almost all the artists of hip hop and play one of the most prominent roles in the film "Bullet". Success: After death, suspiciously reminiscent transferred in reality a scene from an action movie, the popularity of Tupac was not just huge, but really wild. Double collection of previously unreleased songs and remixes Until The End of Time was the third (nine) issued after the murder of release and shortly after received the status in the United States five times platinum (sold over 5 million copies).

Notorious B.I.G. "Life After Death"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 1997

Notorious B.I.G. (Aka Biggie) - the rapper from the Bronx, a representative of the East Coast, whose biography is strongly reminiscent of the way of life of its main enemy of Tupac Shakur. Biggie as a drug dealer, and sat, and also had a Breakout with fans of hip-hop in the first half of the 90s. After the murder of Tupac he and Puff Daddy (soon obscenely wealthy on producer activity) were accused of involvement in the crime, but were acquitted for lack of evidence.

And six months later in the same way, from a passing car, shot of Biggie and of involvement in the shooting of suspected closest friend Tupac Shakur - Sugar Knight. The second (and first posthumous) album Notorious B.I.G. a frighteningly prophetic title Life After Death was released two weeks later after his death.

Success: The album reached by 2000 in the US "diamond" status (sold over 10 million copies).

Nirvana "MTV Unplugged in New York"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 1994

Live acoustic concert was recorded at the Sony Studios in New York November 18, 1993, six months before the death of Kurt Cobain, and released as an album a year after the record - November 1, 1994. During the concert, which was the last recording before the musician's suicide, 10 copyright Nirvana songs were played and six cover versions (including became super popular The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie). Immediately after the release of MTV Unplugged in New York took the first place on the Billboard 200, and by the beginning of 1995, has overtaken the number of sold copies of the last studio album by Nirvana - In Utero. Success: In 1996, the album has received "Grammy" as "the best alternative music performance", and by 1997-mu sold over 5 million copies.

John Lennon & Yoko Ono "Milk and Honey"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 1984

Eighth solo album, Lennon and his first posthumous release, the material for which was collected from recordings made in the last few months of his life, and while working on the record Double Fantasy. Double Fantasy, released in conjunction with Yoko Ono, three weeks before the tragic death of John, was to become an album of two parts - Milk and Honey was his second, slightly belated, half. In addition to songs, ready for Double Fantasy, it included It works, and fragments of the interview that John gave a few hours before his death.

Success: The album has not received such a resonance as the Double Fantasy, but was quite successful, reaching number 11 in the US charts, the third places in the UK and has become the "gold" (sold in 500 000 copies).

Janis Joplin "Pearl"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 1971

Last record material for the fourth studio album of Janis Joplin took place three days before her death from a heroin overdose, which set October 4, 1970. A Pearl, released on January 11, 1971, soon was named the best releases of the year in the US, has sold more than 8 million copies, has been recognized as one of the best pieces of white blues and includes one of the biggest hits Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee, song award separate first place in the American charts.

Success: The most successful album in the career of Janis Joplin reprinted twice - the first time it has been digitized for release on CD in 1999, released a second time in 2012 under the title The Pearl Sessions, complete with alternate versions of several songs.

Otis Redding "The Dock of the Bay"

11 albums, published after his death

Year: 1968

Winner of the classical and unique soul vocals, sung with the intonations of the old sage, Otis Reding did not live up to their 27th birthday, dying in a plane crash two weeks before Christmas 1967. Just a few months before the tragedy, the summer of the same year, he was triumphantly performed at the music festival Monterey Pop Festival in California (which became the prototype of which appeared two years later, Woodstock) and became really popular in the United States (in the previous five years of career Reading was known only to a narrow circle of admirers of soul and rhythm and blues). His immortal ballad (Sittin 'On) The Dock of the Bay (Reading only single, reached number one on the US charts) was recorded three days before the accident, and subsequently sold in the amount of more than 4 million copies.

Success: The Dock of the Bay became the first album in a long list of posthumous releases Otis Reading and won first place in the charts in the UK. Within three years after the singer's death, his record company has released one after the other three plates - The Immortal Otis Redding, Love Man and Tell the Truth, each of which contained a few songs, instantly became a classic soul.