''One Day in Your Life'' is a

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released by

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's former record label

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, consisting of both solo and

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tracks recorded with Motown, and released on March 25, 1981. It was the first Jackson album released in the 1980s. Most of the tracks are from Jackson's fourth studio album, ''

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'' (1975). The other songs were taken from Jackson 5 releases to pad the album's running time. Motown later admitted that the album was just a quick cash grab generated from the success of Jackson's '' Off the Wall'' (1979). The compilation's

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(originally appearing as a non-single track in ''Forever, Michael'') was released as a

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and became a worldwide hit, especially in the United Kingdom, where it became Jackson's first number-one hit as a solo artist.

Track listing

''Tracks listed according to

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''.

Charts

Weekly charts

References

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