The song was released on November 27, 1995 as a single for the album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Earth Song was originally written for the 1991 Dangerous album, but failed to make the cut. The song included a short film that shows the destruction of the earth. Earth Song remains to be Michael Jackson's best selling single and the country's 1995 Christmas single! In 2009, Michael Jackson rehearsed this song for his This Is It tour. In 2011, Earth Song was remixed with Michael Jackson's poem, Planet Earth, for the Immortal remix album.