CNN is doing a pole asking that Question, he didn't release too many solo albums, shouldn't that title be for artists like Elton John or Madonna? they are both still cranking the hits, well Madonna anyway.
M.J Greatest pop star ever?
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Sorry. can't really compare MJ with the other 2, I think MJ had his first hit when he was 11 with J5. His flame burned bright and furious.
It's about quality and impact not about quantity, in this case anyway.
he may not have put out as many solo albums but selling 28 million of one of them and counting to the tune of 65 million world wide kinda puts him on top in my opinion. without mentioning that thriller spent 37 weeks on the billboard chart at #1, winning 8 grammy's for one album which was and i think still is a record.
you can also go to any country in the world and ask pretty much anyone who michael jackson is and they will know. i'm not sure that elton or madonna as great as they are have the same world wide coverage.
i mean i can remember as a kid people lining up and paying to see the thriller music video at the theater! i've never since seen people line and pay to see a music video at the theater, not even when puff daddy was throwing millions behind his video's.
thriller made history as the first and only record to be America's top-selling album two years running (1983 and 1984). Thriller has been certified 27x platinum by the RIAA, giving it Double Diamond Award status in the US. In 1985, the Guinness Book of Records named Thriller the Best Selling Album of All Time, an achievement which remains unsurpassed to this day.
thats just one album, he sold millions of his other ones as well, which were looked at as disappointing by "thriller" standards but extremely well by any one else's standards, thats the league that michael was in.
you can also go to any country in the world and ask pretty much anyone who michael jackson is and they will know. i'm not sure that elton or madonna as great as they are have the same world wide coverage.
i mean i can remember as a kid people lining up and paying to see the thriller music video at the theater! i've never since seen people line and pay to see a music video at the theater, not even when puff daddy was throwing millions behind his video's.
thriller made history as the first and only record to be America's top-selling album two years running (1983 and 1984). Thriller has been certified 27x platinum by the RIAA, giving it Double Diamond Award status in the US. In 1985, the Guinness Book of Records named Thriller the Best Selling Album of All Time, an achievement which remains unsurpassed to this day.
thats just one album, he sold millions of his other ones as well, which were looked at as disappointing by "thriller" standards but extremely well by any one else's standards, thats the league that michael was in.
I agree with this statement. I love Bob Marley!! His son Damian Marley is also great.
I have never been a real fan of Michael, but always loved Marley.
There is no comparison, though. They are completely different genres of music. Bob Marley is reggae, which has always been political, and sexy. Michael is pop, which has never been known for its political messages, but it can sometimes be sexy, when its not boring.
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lol, ever the hippy chickI agree with this statement. I love Bob Marley!! His son Damian Marley is also great.
I have never ben a real fine of Michael, but always loved Marley.
There is no comparison, though. They are completely different genres of music. Bob Marley is reagae, which has always been political, and sexy. Michael is pop, which has never been known for its political messages, but it can sometimes be sexy, when its not boring.
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what, you and Hubba break up ...
what an ass-kisserlol, ever the hippy chick
...what, you and Hubba break up
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He was such a dillusional wierdo& i did'nt care too much for his music, Gotta love that Karma though, i heard because M.J.s body was over 60% plastic. There gonna melt him down & make lego out of him,so kids can play with him for a change!what an ass-kisser
what, you and Hubba break up
Did someone pee in your corn flakes? People can't give a girl a compliment around here without someone making a negative comment. Track star is not an ass kisser. Also wasn't Hubba with inthebum and little asian guy?what an ass-kisser
what, you and Hubba break up
Actually, I am going to take it back about Hubba, because he actually posts for fun and never really says anything bad about anybody.
Sorry Hubba, sometimes I just get caught up in the moment, lolLight bearer, every time you post anything, I can feel the discord emanating from your words. You truly are an unhappy soul
Nope, not the greatest
He had some great hits as a kid; he made a couple very good albums crammed with catchy hits at this peak; he was a great performer; and then he disappeared into weirdness. He wasn't a musical innovator in the same sense as the greatest pop stars of the last century, and/or didn't have the same lasting career as say:
Louis Armstrong
Bing Crosby
Duke Ellington
Frank Sinatra
Elvis Presley
Hank Williams
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
James Brown
Bob Marley
One of the things that will detract from his historical importance was that there was no message to his music; it was all about "let's boogie".
His peak of popularity also coincided with with the peak of mass media -- album sales were at their high point; there was still a top 40 radio that everybody listened to; everybody saw the same tv special where he showed off his moonwalk. It will be impossible for anyone to reach that percentage of any audience again, now that everybody listens to their own playlist....
He had some great hits as a kid; he made a couple very good albums crammed with catchy hits at this peak; he was a great performer; and then he disappeared into weirdness. He wasn't a musical innovator in the same sense as the greatest pop stars of the last century, and/or didn't have the same lasting career as say:
Louis Armstrong
Bing Crosby
Duke Ellington
Frank Sinatra
Elvis Presley
Hank Williams
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
James Brown
Bob Marley
One of the things that will detract from his historical importance was that there was no message to his music; it was all about "let's boogie".
His peak of popularity also coincided with with the peak of mass media -- album sales were at their high point; there was still a top 40 radio that everybody listened to; everybody saw the same tv special where he showed off his moonwalk. It will be impossible for anyone to reach that percentage of any audience again, now that everybody listens to their own playlist....
Do what I've done and put Lightbearer on your ignore list. He never posts anything worth reading anyway.Light bearer, every time you post anything, I can feel the discord emanating from your words. You truly are an unhappy soul
As for MJ, was he the greatest ever? No, but I'd say he's one of the greatest.
He was certainly the biggest and most influential act of the generation that grew up on his music from Jackson 5 onwards. The acts that HankQuinlan listed were the greatest of the prior generations that adored them. Mozart, Sinatra, Elvis, Beatles and MJ all belong on the same echelon.
He was certainly the biggest and most influential act of the generation that grew up on his music from Jackson 5 onwards. The acts that HankQuinlan listed were the greatest of the prior generations that adored them. Mozart, Sinatra, Elvis, Beatles and MJ all belong on the same echelon.
well i fucking love bob marley so i'm not gonna say too much that conflicts with your opinion, but i will say something about the michael trying to be white thing.
bob marley actually is half white for the record but thats besides the point. bob came from jamaica which has a very strong black culture not a persecuted black culture that michael grew up in of the u.s.a. of the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and even really to a lesser extent now.
the pressure to conform to the white ideal of beauty just wasn't in jamaica the way it was in north america. unless you have lived the black experience, especially in that time line you can't really form a hard opinion on the pressure jackson felt to fit into white america.
but, maybe you are black, i don't know? i'm guessing that you are not. as for the child abuse, he was never convicted of either charge. here's my opinion on it.
i'm not gonna say he didn't do it cause i was not there and there was some circumstantial evidence, but there were just as many witnesses that said it didn't happen. put it this way, if it did happen, who is more evil? jackson or the parents that took the money and ran instead of going ahead with justice for their kid?
i know if my kid was diddled, no amount of money would make me not want to see justice played out. as for the celebrity sometimes its just easier to cut your loses and part with the money even if you didn't do the crime. a lengthy trial could cost more then the settlement money.
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