Got to Be There

This article is about the Got to Be There album . For the album's title track of the same name, see Got to Be There (song) .

Got to Be There
Michael Jackson studio album
publication (s)	January 24, 1972
admission	June–December 1971
label(s)	Motown
Format(s)	CD, LP
genre(s)	R'n'B , Soul , Pop Rock
title (number)	10
length	35:45
occupation	Vocals: Michael Jackson
production	Hal Davis , Willie Hutch
chronology — Got to Be There Ben (1972)

Got to Be There is the debut solo album by American singer Michael Jackson . It was released by Motown Records on January 24, 1972.

Jackson was 13 years old at the time of publication. It includes the song Got to Be There , which was released on November 7, 1971, making it Jackson's first solo single. The album sold over 500,000 copies in the US alone. Got to Be There was later remastered and re-released in 2009 as part of the Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection compilation .

publication

Motown released Jackson's album around the same time as another brother from a famous family, Donny Osmond , who had hits with songs like Sweet & Innocent and Puppy Love . Jackson's and Osmond's debuts ran almost parallel. Jackson scored hits with the album's title track and the song Rockin' Robin , which, like Osmond 's Puppy Love , is also a cover of a 1950s song. The album also includes covers of Bill Withers ' Ain't No Sunshine , Carole King 's You've Got a Friend and The Supremes ' Love Is Here and Now You're Gone .

singles

Four singles were released from the album. Ain't No Sunshine was only released as a single in the UK in the summer of 1972 . Got to Be There has sold approximately 2.2 million copies worldwide. In the US it sold about 1.6 million. The single I Wanna Be Where You Are has sold over 1.3 million copies worldwide and around 660,000 in the US. Most successful, however, was Jackson's cover of Rockin' Robin , which sold over 2 million copies in the US alone.

Chart Positions Explanation of the data

albums

Got to Be There   UK 37 06/03/1972 (5 weeks)   U.S 14 02/19/1972 (23 weeks)

singles

Got to Be There   UK 5 02/12/1972 (11 weeks)   U.S 4 10/30/1971 (14 weeks) Rockin' Robin   UK 3 05/20/1972 (14 weeks)   U.S 2 03/11/1972 (13 weeks) I wanna be where you are   UK 16 05/27/1972 (11 weeks) Ain't No Sunshine   CH 99 07/12/2009 (1 week)   UK 8th 08/19/1972 (11 weeks)

title list

1. Ain't No Sunshine ( Bill Withers ) – 4:09
2. I Wanna Be Where You Are ( Leon Ware , T-Boy Ross) – 3:01
3. Girl Don't Take Your Love from Me ( Willie Hutch ) – 3:46
4. In Our Small Way (Beatrice Verdi, Christine Yarian) – 3:38
5. Got to Be There (Elliot Willensky) – 3:23
6. Rockin' Robin ( Leon Rene ) – 2:31
7. Wings of My Love ( Corporation ) – 3:25
8. Maria (You Were the Only One) (L. Brown, Linda Glover, George Gordy, Allen Story) - 3:41
9. Love Is Here and Now You're Gone ( Holland - Dozier - Holland ) - 2:51
10. You've Got a Friend ( Carole King ) – 4:53

reviews

Rolling Stone magazine called the album "...clever, artful and every bit as good as the Jackson 5 " and described Jackson's voice as "sweet and touching". It was also rated "innocent and utterly professional" and "fascinating and compelling".

Charts

Got to Be There peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200 and number three on the US R&B Albums chart .

After Jackson's death in June 2009, the album reached position 121 in the French charts.

sources

1. ↑ release date
2. ↑ Don't Forget the Motor City .
3. ↑ jackson5abc.com
4. ↑ Craig Halstead, Chris Cadman: Michael Jackson the solo years . Ed.: New Generation Publishing. 2003, ISBN 978-0-7552-0091-7 , pp 284 .
5. ↑ google.de
6. ↑ jackson5abc.com
7. ↑ jackson5abc.com
8. ^ Chart data album UK US
9. ↑ Chart data Singles CH, UK, US
10. ↑ Rolling-Stone , December 7, 1972
11. ↑ rollingstone.com ( Memento of 1 July 2009 at the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ hitparade.ch