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This Is It (Michael Jackson song)
"This Is It" is a song co-written by American pop star and musician Michael Jackson and singer-songwriter Paul Anka. The song was recorded by the former and featured as a track on the album, ''This Is It'' (2009), which accompanies the 2009 concert documentary ''Michael Jackson's This Is It''. It was premiered worldwide on Jackson's official website on October 12, 2009. Sony Music Entertainment misleadingly referred to the song as a "new single" during its promotion, but it was later confirmed that the song would only be sent for airplay, and not be available to buy as a single release. According to Anka, the song was recorded in 1983 and intended to be a duet between him and Jackson on Anka's ''Walk a Fine Line'' album under the title "I Never Heard", but these plans fell through. Thereafter, Sa-Fire recorded the track for her album, ''I Wasn't Born Yesterday'' (1991). The duet version of the song was featured in Anka's 2013 ''Duets'' album. While putting together the ''This Is It'' album, Jackson's demo version of the song was found. His brothers' vocals and additional instrumentation were then added to the recording. Immediately after its release, Anka threatened legal action against Jackson's estate. The estate then agreed to give Anka 50% of the song's publishing rights.
A pop ballad, the song's lyrics describe falling and being in love. The instrumentation includes piano, guitar, percussion, and strings. Jackson's version, styled as a pop ballad, was his first song to chart on ''Billboard'' Hot Adult Contemporary Chart in over seventeen years. The song was generally well received by critics and enjoyed good chart performances globally. It became a top twenty hit on charts in Japan and Spain, and peaked at number 18 on both ''Billboards US Adult Contemporary and R&B/Hip-Hop song charts. In 2011, it received a Grammy Award nomination. The song was also accompanied by a music video, directed by Spike Lee, which consisted of footage of Jackson as a child, clips of him throughout his career, and footage of tributes from Jackson's fans around the world.
==Background==
Although it shared its name, the song was not intentionally made for the 2009 concert documentary ''Michael Jackson's This Is It''. "This Is It" was written by recording artists Paul Anka and Michael Jackson,〔〔 and a demo version of the song was recorded by Anka and Jackson in 1983 at Anka's California recording studio.〔 The song was intended to be added as an album track on Anka's 1983 duets album ''Walk a Fine Line'' that he was in the process of recording at the time.〔 Anka claimed in 2009 that following the release of Jackson's 1982 album ''Thriller'', Jackson "stole the () tapes" from Anka's recording studio.〔
Soon after the alleged theft in the '80s, Anka threatened to take legal action if the recordings were not returned.〔〔 Jackson's version of "This Is It" was reportedly found in a box of tapes with only Jackson's voice and a piano accompaniment, the song was described as having been a "bare-bone" recording.〔 Jackson subsequently returned the tapes, although Anka insisted that Jackson had made a copy of the recordings of "I Never Heard," and retitled the track with his voice to "This Is It."〔 In 1990, Anka allowed the Puerto Rican R&B recording artist Sa-Fire to record "This Is It,",〔 which she did under the original title "I Never Heard" on her second studio album ''I Wasn't Born Yesterday'' in 1991.
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