In the UK Jackson scored a posthumous number one album with greatest hits compilation Number Ones, with four other albums reappearing in the top 20.

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They have also requested financial information from Universal Music - the record label which released a Boomtown Rats greatest hits compilation and re-mastered versions of their six studio albums earlier this year.

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Mr. MOTHERSBAUGH: Well, to be perfectly honest with you, if you were to see our show that we did last night, about half the songs came off the first two albums, and then the rest of them were just pulled out of the greatest hits of things that happened later than that.

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