In 1995, he joined Jackson's ATV Music catalog with the division of Sony Music Publishing creatingSony / ATV Music Publishing. Jackson was arrested a half ownership of the company, received an advance of $ 95,000,000, and the rights of the song even more. He then released the double album History: Past, Present and Future, Book I. The first disc begins the story, is a 15-track greatest hits album, and later reissued as Greatest Hits: History, Volume I in 2001, while the second disc continues the story contains 15 new songs. The album debuted at number one in the charts and was certified for seven million shipments in the United States. This is a multi-disc best-selling album of all time, with 20 million copies (40 million units) sold worldwide. History has received a Grammy nomination for Album of the year.
The first single from this album is a double A-side "Scream / Childhood". "Scream" is a duet sung by the youngest brother of Janet Jackson. The song is fighting against the media, especially the media that he is being his 1993 allegations of child abuse. This single is the debut theBillboard Hot 100 at number five, and received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals "" You Are Not Alone "is the second single of history. Holds the Guinness World Record for the first song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It was considered a great artistic and commercial success, received a Grammy nomination for "Best Pop Vocal Performance" In 1995, end, Jackson was taken to hospital after collapsing during practice for the enforcement of the television. The incident was caused by a panic attack due to stress. "Earth Song" is the third single from history and leads the UK singles chart for six weeks at Christmas 1995 and sold a million copies to Michael Jackson's most successful single in the United Kingdom. The song "They Do not Care About Us" became controversial when the Anti-Defamation League and other groups criticized the alleged anti-Semitic lyrics. Jackson promptly issued a revised version of the song without words for the offensive. In 1996, Jackson won a Grammy for Best Music Video, Short Form for "Scream" and American Music Award for Favorite Pop Rock Artist / Female.
The album was promoted with a history of successful World Tour. The tour begins September 7, 1996, and completed October 15, 1997. Jackson performed 82 concerts in 58 cities of more than 4.5 million fans and has reported a total of 165 million. The show, which visited five continents and 35 countries, became Jackson's most successful in terms of number of spectators. During the trip, Jackson was married to her longtime friend Deborah Jeanne Rowe, a nurse in dermatology, in a surprise ceremony inSydney, Australia. Rowe is about six months pregnant with the couple's first child at the time. Initially, Jackson and Rowe did not intend to marry, but the mother Katherine Jackson persuade them to do so. Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (commonly known as Prince) was born February 13, 1997; sister Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson was born a year later, April 3, 1998. The couple divorced in 1999, and Jackson won full custody of children. Divorce is relatively calm, but the parameters of the next prisoner was not resolved until 2006.