Top Eight Hit Songs Released After Death

Today, a previously unreleased Michael Jackson song got itself all out on the internet.  A 25-second clip from the song, “A Place With No Name,” reveals a signature MJ-style take on the 1971 America hit “A Horse With No Name.”  The production quality on the leaked clip is surprisingly polished.  Perhaps he had planned it for a studio release?  How many other unreleased Michael Jackson songs are out there?  It’ll be Christmas every day for a year for whichever record label gets ahold of them.

After the jump, the new Jackson clip, plus my video list of the top eight songs that saw life after the death of the singer.  I’m presenting them without comment, because of it is Friday.

Here’s “A Place With No Name”

1) “You Know You’re Right” – Nirvana.  This was released on the 2002 greatest-hits album.

2) “You Got It” – Roy Orbison.  Perhaps his most enduring hit, this was released on Mystery Girl in 1989, shortly after the singer’s sudden death at 52.

3) “Mo Money, Mo Problems” – Notorious B.I.G.  Big’s second posthumous #1 hit (no one else has achieved this), off Life After Death.

4) “Voodoo Child” – Jimi Hendrix.  1968, off Electric Ladyland.

5) “Me and Bobby McGee” – Janis Joplin.  Came out in 1971 after Joplin’s heroin overdose.

6) “Hail Mary” – 2pac/Makaveli.  The second single on The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, an album written and produced beginning to end in only seven days.  Released November 1996.

7) “What I Got” – Sublime.  From the 1996 self-titled album, released two months after Bradley Nowell’s heroin death.  Fact: I could once play this song on a guitar.

8 ) “Calabria 2007” – Enur with vocals by Natasja Saad.  Saad was killed in a car accident in 2007.  This is a great song, ok?

Source for MJ song: The Sun.

A second opinion on posthumous releases at Sidetracked.