Hasn’t Jacko been in financial trouble for years now? Guardian reports that, arrears be damned, MJ’s partnership company Sony/ATV purchased the publishing entity Famous Music for $370 million from Viacom via auction yesterday. (Imagine that auctioneer: “SOLD to the ma…woma…person raising the gloved hand.”)
So to the Beatles, add Björk, Beck, and other artists that don’t fit this alliterative scheme to Michael’s personal stash of song rights. Experts say the most valuable catalogue controlled by Famouse Music is that of Marshall Mathers. A Sony/ATV exec says Famous Music is a “world-class asset filled with evergreen songs that people know and love,” but we wouldn’t put it past the Freak Of Pop to orchestrate this whole thing just to own Slim after this bit of hair-flaming fun.
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I don?t get Michael Jackson. I mean, here is a man who aspires to a level of weirdness that makes everyone on Earth uncomfortable, but does nothing to change his image, refuses to stop complaining about how everyone else makes fun of him, or above all else – stop being a pedophile! Now, his extravagant tastes have caught up with him and he can?t even pay the zookeeper who feeds the monkeys at Neverland; yet he somehow has the time, energy and cash-flow to invest in undermining Eminem!
This only pisses me off because I?d hate to see other artists who?ve done nothing to Jackson, wake up to find their music used to sell shoes. It?s just wrong, but Michael Jackson?s greed and vanity will catch up with him one day – mark my words!
michael jackson uses e-mail.
MJ has the last laugh Ha Ha Ha!!
I’m not 100% sure about this, but I’m pretty sure that Michael Jackson sold off the rights to the Beatles songs in the late 90s, when he was hard up for money.
I seem to remember that he sold them off for, like, $90 million. I thought that was a) a lot of money, and b) weird for him to have them in the first place.
Michael is dangerous – Hee heee
he doent need to hate or lie -
He rules – this is not revenge
it is business – this was orchastrated
by sony not Michael – although he does
benifit — kudos for the King – not former
as NO one has taken or claimed that Tiltle
It is his alone – his personal life has no
bearing and is greatly exagerated – negatively
by hateful people – who like to destroy others
for thier own sucess – Long live the KING -
To Stu: Michael never sold ATV Music Publishing Corp (which he purchased in 1984) – he merged it with Sony Music Publishing Corp in 1995 in return for $90 million cash, creating Sony/ATV Music Publishing Corp. So it’s a 50/50 deal. The company is now worth over $1 billion.
Eminem feeds a lot of mouths.
i disagree he is not wierd and he’s definitly not a pedofile, he’s just very misunderstood by many
LONG LIVE KING OF POP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
haha good on MJ… What goes around comes around
Ju Bean shut the fuck up your being rude to him and making false claims right now and Stu he still owns the beatles what the hell is with some of you guys? It’s really crazy how some people want him to lose the rights to the beatles catalog so badly. Lastly to the guy who wrote this article his name is JACKSON and no he ain’t broke which is why time and time again we always have to say don’t believe everything you read or hear and also it’s KING of pop stop being a prick.
suck on that Eminem. now who?s bad?
That?s what I call a revenge.
Now MJ will sell you silly songs to McDonalds ads hahaha
Eminem is a low-life artist. His career will never ever be sucessful and I do not mean that in comparison to Michael Jackson because he is way below Mj’s league. Yes, there may be some people who will patronize his trashy raps but hey, at the end of the day he is a lonely, nasty and troubled person. It will fall back to him in multifolds. He can’t put down a good man even decades/generations/centuries after his death. He’s such a pity is what I see him.
okay for one, eminem was the one who made fun of michael jackson in the first place, and I guess since everyone was stepping on michaels toes he felt angry and did this. like eminem has a place to judge he makes fun of people all the time!