Scream (Michael Jackson album)

A 17-second teaser was released on Michael Jackson's official Facebook page and YouTube Vevo page{{cite web|last=michaeljacksonVEVO|title=Michael Jackson – Scream (Album Teaser)|website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45CIOYIHFyU|date=September 6, 2017|access-date=September 8, 2017}} on September 6, 2017, just after a 3D version of the 1983 "Thriller" short film premiered in Venice, Italy. Later that day, the album was classified as a "Halloween album" with mysterious theme songs.{{Cite news|url=http://www.nme.com/news/michael-jackson-new-album-scream-compilation-dangerous-2134899|title=Michael Jackson new compilation album SCREAM to be released this month|work=NME|date=September 6, 2017|access-date=September 8, 2017}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.spin.com/2017/09/michael-jackson-scream-compilation-halloween/|title=Michael Jackson's New Scream Album Is a Halloween-Themed Compilation|work=Spin|date=September 6, 2017|access-date=September 8, 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/entertainment/new-michael-jackson-album-scream/index.html|title=There's a new Michael Jackson album coming, just in time for Halloween|author=Lisa Respers France|website=CNN|date=September 6, 2017 |access-date=September 8, 2017}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-king-of-pop-lives-in-new-michael-jackson-halloween-album-scream|title=Thriller lives again in new Michael Jackson Halloween album, Scream|last=Spry|first=Jeff|work=Syfy|access-date=September 8, 2017|archive-date=September 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908064139/http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-king-of-pop-lives-in-new-michael-jackson-halloween-album-scream|url-status=dead}} The track "Blood on the Dance Floor x Dangerous (The White Panda Mash-up)" was released digitally on September 6, 2017. Another track, "Thriller (Steve Aoki Midnight Hour Remix)" was released digitally on September 29, but this remix was not included on the album.

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The album received generally mixed reviews. Some reviews criticized the album's tracklist. Joel Garcia from Evo News highlighted that few songs actually are Halloween-related, while other songs ("Leave Me Alone", "Scream", "Unbreakable", among others) have little to nothing to do with the theme of the album: "[The rest of the songs] are instead about either failed relationships or Jackson’s thoughts on the media."{{Cite news|url=https://evonews.com/entertainment/2017/sep/15/a-review-of-michael-jacksons-scream/|title=A review of Michael Jackson's Scream|work=EvoNews|date=September 15, 2017|access-date=October 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016013645/https://evonews.com/entertainment/2017/sep/15/a-review-of-michael-jacksons-scream/|archive-date=October 16, 2017|url-status=dead}} Andy Kellman from Allmusic described the album as a "trivial gimmick" and wrote that the majority of the track list was "forced into the program, chosen for tenuous, superficial reasons" like song titles. Kellman called the mash-up by The White Panda "forgettable".

Chuck Campbell from Knoxnews praised the hits included on Scream but called the included album cuts from Dangerous and Invincible "derivative and lazy". In contrast, Dan Weiss from Consequence of Sound praised the album's inclusion of lesser known songs and felt that it was cohesive despite also describing it as a "cash-grab".{{Cite news|url=https://consequence.net/2017/10/album-review-michael-jackson-scream/|title=Album Review: Michael Jackson – Scream|work=Consequence of Sound|date=October 5, 2017|access-date=October 15, 2017}}

It debuted at number 28 in France,{{cite web|url=http://www.snepmusique.com/tops-semaine/top-album-megafusion/?ye=2017&we=40|title=Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums – SNEP (Week 40, 2017)|publisher=Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|access-date=October 10, 2017}} selling 3,300 units.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chartsinfrance.net/actualite/news-105248.html|title=Top Albums : Florent Pagny reste premier, Bernard Lavilliers plus fort que Patrick Fiori|website=chartsinfrance.net|access-date=October 9, 2017}} In the United States, it debuted with 14,000 units, including 11,000 from pure album sales, in its first week of release, charting at number 33 on the Billboard 200.{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7998520/billboard-200-chart-moves-michael-jackson-scream|title=Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Michael Jackson Earns 30th Charting Album With 'Scream'|magazine=Billboard|access-date=October 14, 2017}}

{{Track listing

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| title1 = This Place Hotel

| note1 = a.k.a. "Heartbreak Hotel") (performed by The Jacksons

| writer1 = Michael Jackson

| length1 = 5:43

| extra1 = Triumph

| title2 = Thriller

| writer2 = Rod Temperton

| length2 = 5:58

| extra2 = Thriller

| title3 = Blood on the Dance Floor

| writer3 = Jackson, Teddy Riley

| length3 = 4:13

| extra3 = Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix

| title4 = Somebody's Watching Me

| note4 = performed by Rockwell

| writer4 = Kennedy Gordy

| length4 = 3:57

| extra4 = Somebody's Watching Me

| title5 = Dirty Diana

| writer5 = Jackson

| length5 = 4:40

| extra5 = Bad

| title6 = Torture

| note6 = performed by The Jacksons

| writer6 = Jackie Jackson, Kathleen Wakefield

| length6 = 4:53

| extra6 = Victory

| title7 = Leave Me Alone

| writer7 = Jackson

| length7 = 4:39

| extra7 = Bad

| title8 = Scream

| note8 = duet with Janet Jackson

| writer8 = Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, James Harris III, Terry Lewis

| length8 = 4:37

| extra8 = HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I

| title9 = Dangerous

| writer9 = Jackson, Bill Bottrell, Riley

| length9 = 6:58

| extra9 = Dangerous

| title10 = Unbreakable

| note10 = featuring The Notorious B.I.G.

| writer10 = Michael Jackson, Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III, LaShawn Daniels, Nora Payne, Robert Smith, Christopher Wallace

| length10 = 6:25

| extra10 = Invincible

| title11 = Xscape

| writer11 = Jackson, Jerkins, Jerkins,

Daniels

| length11 = 4:05

| extra11 = Xscape

| title12 = Threatened

| writer12 = Jackson, Jerkins, Jerkins, Daniels

| length12 = 4:19

| extra12 = Invincible

| title13 = Ghosts

| writer13 = Jackson, Riley

| length13 = 5:13

| extra13 = Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix

| title14 = Blood on the Dance Floor x Dangerous (The White Panda Mash-Up)

| writer14 = Jackson, Bottrell, Riley, James Harris III, Lewis

| length14 = 3:38

| total_length = 69:25

| all_writing =

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• Track 14 contains vocals and musical elements from "Blood on the Dance Floor", "Dangerous", "This Place Hotel", "Is It Scary" and "Leave Me Alone".

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