THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION BOXSETS   & 

THE OBSCURE EUROPEAN 2009 

WHITE REISSUE

Let's talk about the "Ultimate collection"! Here you can see all the commercial boxsets in the Showroom collection. As y'all know, this boxset was released in 2004 and it contains an handful of previously unreleased recordings and demos, as well as almost all the greatest hits of the King of Pop and the "Dangerous Tour Live in Bucharest" dvd.

With this boxset, the fans have had the opportunity to hear the wonderful "We've had enough" for the very first time, and outtakes from the "THRILLER" era ("Scared of the moon"), "BAD" era (like "Cheater"), and "Invincible" era ("In the back", "The way you love me") early versions of classic hits ("Shake a body"), the original demo of "We are the world" sung by Michael solo as the guide vocal of the song. "Monkey business" was another unreleased track but well-known at the time because it was already leaked on the web as a part of the "Dangerous sessions", and "We're here to change the world" taken from the mini-movie "Captain Eo" was another popular song among fans but never officially released.

Those are the details for each release:

EUROPE:
2004 release, in black leather with golden dancing silhouette, 4 cds + 1 dvd 
Epic/Sony music catalogue #E5K92600

EUROPE:
November 2009 reissue,  white leather with golden dancing silhouette, 4 cds + 1 dvd
Epic/Sony music catalogue #88697759835 2

USA:
2004 release, same tracklist of the EU version, white leather with golden dancing silhouette
4 cds + 1 dvd Epic/Sony music catalogue #E5K92600

JAPAN: 
2004 release, with bonus tracks for each cd (5 in total:"Blame it on the boogie" CD1,  "Human nature" CD2, "Another part of me" & "Heal the world" CD3, "One more chance" CD4.
White leather boxset with wrap-around obi, Epic/Sony music catalogue #E5K92600

Among these releases, the 2009 reissue is an obscure reissue:even Discogs doesn't have it in its catalogue, and it was distributed apparently only in UK at the end of 2009. 
In the following pictures, you can see the differences between the original EU release, and the 2009 reissue: