Michael Jackson Songs Top Charts Worldwide

Michael Jackson dreamed of a global comeback that would make his moniker "the King of Pop" a reality once more rather than a throwback to happier times.

Now, in a grim twist of fate, his untimely death has achieved just that as sales of his albums and songs have rocketed, putting him back on top of the music charts all over the world.

There is even the prospect of a new Jackson song being released after self-help guru Deepak Chopra revealed details yesterday of what he said was Jackson's last recording. The Good Morning America TV show played a brief tune, without any words, which Chopra said was part of a song the friends were working on together and which would have addressed environmental issues.

"Michael called me a while ago and said he wanted to do something for the environment," Chopra said. "It is in fact the last music he made. We were going to write the words for it.

"We were saying the trees are our lungs, the air is our breath," Chopra added, describing the song as comparing Earth to a human body.

But it is Jackson's old songs that have generated all the interest in the past two days, with sales surging in almost every country of almost every song that Jackson produced. Within hours of his death three of his albums were in the top 10 chart of iTunes.

By Friday all of Amazon's top 15 albums were Jackson's work, and his songs accounted for 60% of all music sales at the online retailer. That meant more Jackson songs had been sold on Amazon in 24 hours than in the past 11 years. Other music stores, including Barnes and Noble and Borders, reported a similar rise in sales.