Invincible (album)

Invincible is the tenth, and final, studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released by Epic Records on October 30, 2001. Invincible was the first release of new Jackson material since Blood on the Dance Floor in 1997 and first studio album in five years since HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Jackson, Rodney Jerkins, R. Kelly and Teddy Riley, among others, received producing and writing credits. Similar to Jackson's previous material, Invincibles sixteen songs theme consist mainly of Jackson's personal experiences, romance and paranoia. The album art, an image of Jackson's face, was available in five different colors; red, green, orange, blue and silver. Invincible was generally well received by contemporary music critics.

The album released three singles; "You Rock My World", "Cry" and "Butterflies", "Butterflies" of which was released outside of the United States. The albums first and last singles charted within the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, as well as peaking at number one and within the top ten worldwide. "Cry" was less commercially successful. Following a conflict between Jackson and his record label, Sony Music stopped promoting the album. The album was the recipient of one Grammy Award nomination, for Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male, as well as being voted, by readers of Billboard magazine, the best album of the decade.

The album was a commercial success; peaking at number one in twelve territories worldwide, notably including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, France and Switzerland. Invincible charted within the top ten in six other territories, while it's least successful charting area was Mexico, where the album peaked at number twenty nine. Invincible re-entered music charts in 2004, and again in 2009 after Jackson's death. Despite the reported worldwide sales of ten million copies, the album has been viewed as a commercial failure compared to Jackson's previous albums sales.