Michael Jackson's Invincible Album Cost A Staggering Amount To Make

2001's "Invincible" was a deeply poignant album for Jackson. As his official website reports, the hitmaker released a series of very personal messages with it, in which he gave special thanks to, among many others, his children ("TO PRINCE AND PARIS... You give me the greatest joy I have ever known in my entire life. I love you both from the bottom of my heart... now and forever...," he wrote), his parents, and his grandmother.

According to AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the album would also come at a crucial time in Jackson's career. "Lack of commercial success, combined with a fading reputation as a trailblazer, a truly ugly public scandal, and swirling rumors about his diminishing finances, along with a huge wait between albums" defined the star in 2001, and there was an awful lot riding on this new album.

Jackson's big push to remind everyone that he was a megastar didn't come cheap. As The Guardian reported in September of 2006, "Invincible" was a colossal project for him: 50 different songs were made for the album over a five-year period, according to the outlet, with many slowly eliminated before the final tracklist was determined. Along the way, according to The Guardian, the process cost $30 million, which reportedly made "Invincible" the priciest album ever made.

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