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This article is about the original 1985 song. See We Are the World 25 for Haiti for the 2010 celebrity remake and We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition) for the 2010 YouTube collaboration. “We Are the World” is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and co-produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is one of the fewer than thirty all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) copies worldwide. Following Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?“ project in the UK, an idea for the creation of an American benefit single for African famine relief came from activist Harry Belafonte,... Read on...