My Way is the sixth solo album by British artist Ian Brown

Ian Brown

Ian George Brown is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses, which broke up in 1996 but are confirmed to reunite in 2012. Since the break-up of the Stone Roses he has pursued a solo career...

. The album was released on September 28, 2009. The album's lead single "Stellify" was released on September 21, 2009. In an interview with XFM Manchester he claimed that the song was originally written for Rihanna

Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...

, but he realised he had created "a great sound" so claimed the track for himself.

"Just Like You" will be the second single released from the album.

Recording

My Way was inspired by Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

's Thriller

Thriller (album)

Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 30, 1982, by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall...

with Brown noting that "we mastered it on the day that Michael Jackson died

Death of Michael Jackson

On June 25, 2009, American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication after he suffered a respiratory arrest at his home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles. His personal physician, Conrad Murray, said he found Jackson in his room, not breathing, but with a faint pulse,...

 (too), so I'm taking that as a good omen."

Tracklisting

1. "Stellify
   Stellify
   Stellify is the first single from Ian Brown's sixth solo album My Way. It was the first time that Brown "sort of consciously sat down and decided to write a love song". The song was released on September 21, 2009...
   
   " (4:57)
2. "Crowning Of The Poor" (3:18)
3. "Just Like You" (3:22)
4. "In The Year 2525
   In the Year 2525
   "In the Year 2525 " is a hit song from 1969 by American pop-rock duo Zager and Evans. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks commencing July 12, 1969. The song was written by Rick Evans in 1964 and originally released on a small regional record label in 1968...
   
   " (Zager and Evans
   Zager and Evans
   Zager & Evans were a Lincoln, Nebraska rock-pop duo of the late 1960s and early 1970s named after its two members, Denny Zager and Rick Evans, who met at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Fellow Nebraska artists Dave Trupp and Mark Dalton backed up the duo on drums and bass respectively...
   
   cover) (2:52)
5. "Always Remember Me" (4:49)
6. "Vanity Kills" (3:34)
7. "For The Glory" (3:11)
8. "Marathon Man" (3:39)
9. "Own Brain" (2:56)
10. "Laugh Now" (3:53)
11. "By All Means Necessary" (3:42)
12. "So High" (2:54)