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Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection is a lavish new 3-CD set that features every Michael Jackson solo recording released from 1971 to 1975, plus the Motown-era songs that were released after he left the company. Compiled and completed long before MJ’s shocking death on June 25, Hello World now pays tribute to the first solo recordings of one of pop music’s greatest entertainers.

This package combines the great albums Got To Be There from 1971; Ben, with the No. 1 title song from 1972; Music And Me from 1973; and Forever, Michael, from 1975. The set also offers a batch of unreleased songs with contemporary overdubs, and further unexpected gems from the legendary Motown vaults. It’s all in a splendid, hard-backed 8”x 5.5” package with an introductory essay by Motown’s Suzee Ikeda, a main essay by Mark Anthony Neal, pages of annotations, rare photos and reproductions of the LP jackets, including the rare original “rat” cover of Ben.

Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection is pure Michael Jackson, an historical document that’s both highly significant and wonderfully entertaining.

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Motown’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations continue with the release of a fantastic new Isley Brothers Anthology assembling the highlights from their early recordings on Motown along with alternatives cuts and stereo mixes. This stomping 2-CD Anthology chronicles all their early hits, including “This Old Heart Of Mine”, "I Guess I’ll Always Love You”, “Put Yourself In My Place”, the previously unreleased “Sure Is A Whole Lotta Woman”, as well as an array of B-Sides, with alternative & stereo mixes all restored from original mono LP tapes. Sleeve notes are supplied by Motown aficionado Paul Nixon.

This beautifully designed collection, with original LP sleeves, will ignite excitement in all Motown lovers old and new. The Isley Brothers still remain as relevant as ever, with a career boasting six decades, they are proud inductees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and Motown are intertwined forever. They had the company’s first million-selling record and its first full-length LP release; they were the stars of the first Motortown Revues. Those thrilling early years are documented on Depend On Me: The Early Albums, a 2-CD set that collects the Miracles’ first five albums, three of which are on CD for the first time, as well as rare bonus cuts.

The set includes the albums Hi, We’re The Miracles, Cookin’ With The Miracles, I’ll Try Something New, The Fabulous Miracles and Recorded Live On Stage are each in their original mono mixes, as originally issued from 1961-63. All of this wonderful Motown music has been remastered with the usual care and devotion, in a delightful package showcasing the original Miracles LP covers, front and back, with rare photos, detailed track annotations and a rich essay by group.

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In 1961, The Marvelettes put Motown on the national map. For the first time, their majestic rise to the top is chronicled in a beautiful new 3-CD set. This collection brings together the group’s first four studio albums; their live album; the stereo Greatest Hits set and every stray single, B-side and rare cut from their early career. Every track has been newly remastered from the original LP and single masters in the Motown vault. Hits include: “Please Mr. Postman”, “Playboy”, “Beechwood 4-5789”, “Forever”, “Someday, Someway” and all the rest, covering the girls’ output 1961 through mid-1966.

Their body of work is presented in a beautiful 36-page booklet that lovingly recreates the original LP artwork, alongside classic and rare images from the Motown photo archives. There’s an essay by Gary Graff, an award-winning music journalist based in Detroit who has written extensively about Motown, and detailed track annotations release dates, recording info and producer credits missing from the original releases.

Forever: The Complete Motown Albums, Volume 1 is a fitting tribute to the original Motown superstars.

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For the first time, a 2-CD edition of the classic acclaimed album, featuring rare remixes and two previously unreleased tracks. Cooleyhighharmony would eventually produce five hit singles and gather several awards, with smash hits such as "Motownphilly,” and the a cappella version of the ballad “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday” . But the album’s life was hardly finished, as in its wake Boyz II Men released the soundtrack songs “End Of The Road” and “In The Still Of The Night (I’ll Remember),” a cover of a doo-wop perennial. Those cuts were added to a 1993 reissue of the album, along with other cuts, and the album was re-sequenced and given new artwork.

In R&B there may be nothing more enduring than the male vocal group,” writes Amy Linden in the liner notes to this exciting new package. “In the nineties no group kept that legacy alive better, or more successfully, than Boyz II Men ... And it all kicked off with Cooleyhighharmony.”

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A massive 10-CD box set containing every Motown No. 1 single (and that does mean every – from international chart from every genre), adding up to a staggering 191 tracks that hit the top, plus 10 bonus tracks whose cover versions were No. 1. These classic, memorable performances come from *50* different Motown artists from all eras.

This special once-in-a-lifetime set is housed in a replica of the original Motown headquarters: The "Hitsville" house on Detroit’s West Grand Boulevard, now the home of the internationally renowned Motown Museum. It’s a true collectible! Inside the house are digi-paks containing the discs – with photos on each of the classic artists in front of Hitsville. The boxset comes with a beautiful mini-photo book, including rare and classic images and track annotations and an introductory essay by the man who started the No. 1 hit parade, the one and only Smokey Robinson

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This new Motown compilation collects together the Top 50 most popular Motown tracks sourced via a UK and International online poll, featuring Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Jackson 5 amongst many others. Also featured is a third bonus CD of cover versions.

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The most current instalment in this award-winning series covers the year 1970. This year is encapsulated in the 6-disc set documenting every single released by Motown during its Detroit era, with 145 tracks accompanied by a 148 booklet.

The unique “album” design again features a 45 RPM single representing the volume’s year: this time, it’s “The Tears Of A Clown" by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, their No. 1 pop hit that took everyone in the company by surprise. Carving out the narrative is an introduction by famed artist manager John Reid, who was then Tamla Motown’s label manager in the U.K. and was part of the team that made “The Tears Of A Clown” an unexpected No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. Duke University’s Mark Anthony Neal provides the historical overview. Once again, the booklet includes track-by-track annotations as well as deeply researched stories behind the songs by Keith Hughes and Bill Dahl.

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22 legendary full length performances by the hit-making Motown group. From rare local television clips to celebrated appearances on the national stage, this collection offers a stunning array of classic Motown music, with remastered sound and video—including the option to experience the Four Tops like never before, and hear unreleased a cappella mixes of such songs as “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” “Baby I Need Your Loving” and nine more, taken directly from their original Motown sessions reels.

As an extra special bonus, newly shot interviews with Duke Fakir, Roquel Payton, Smokey Robinson and Mickey Stevenson, as well as vintage interviews with the rest of the group are highlighted throughout, documenting the one-of- a-kind story of this Motown supergroup. The DVD boasts an 80-minute documentary and more than 35 minutes of extras, including more exclusive interviews and bonus performances featuring post-Motown hits. All in digitally remastered 5.1 surround and stereo!

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It’s a dream come true: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons shared and sometimes battled on the charts with Motown in their respective ‘60s heydays, signed with the company in 1972. There were two albums, several singles, no hits—at least not right away—and then a mutual parting. But the prized, sophisticated recordings, long sought after by fans, and even more desired since the global success of the musical Jersey Boys, were stuck back in the vault.

Now, for the first time ever, Hip-O collects the great Motown albums and singles of the Four Seasons and solo Frankie Valli released from 1972 through 1975. The Motown Years, a 2-CD set compiled with the cooperation of the group, features the album Chameleon and the LP issued as a Valli solo set, Inside You, along with every U.S. and U.K. single not included on either LP.