This is it: Jackson's track online

LONDON: Michael Jackson's new single This Is It began streaming online and playing across the radio airwaves yesterday, nearly four months after the "King of Pop" died of a drug overdose aged 50.

The track, which features backing vocals by Jackson's brothers, opens with a soft, soulful introduction and the lines: This is it, here I stand/I'm the light of the world, I feel grand.

It will be available to buy as part of the two-disc album This Is It, which is scheduled to hit the shelves internationally on October 26 and in North America on October 27 to coincide with the global release of the Jackson movie of the same name on October 28.