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Hi dears Hernàn and MJD !!!
You could give us some hint or anticipation about who will be analyzed after the king of pop (Michael Jackson).
"No Black entertainer, with such a worldwide influence on the public, should have that much power."
I remember back in the mid 00s Britney Spears was everywhere in the press, and somehow everybody tried to make her the world biggest jokes and destroyed her career for good. Is it because no "White Entertainer" should have such a worldwide influence and so much power? How about John Lennon when he was shot to death? Is that because no "White Entertainer" should be that powerful? Its stupid how black people would make racism for every single thing.
Wow...just Wow! This is AMAZING!! Thank you for this great work. Next, Elton John maybe?
I'd also add The Eagles, since they're supposedly share the title of the best selling American band with Aerosmith.
"Its stupid how black people would make racism for every single thing."
First of all, I'm black and I don't appreciate my race being generalized like this. I don't see racism for every single thing, but I do call it like I see it and I call out racism when necessary; no matter who it is. Assuming that you're probably white, I'm sure you wouldn't like it if I said white people are nothing more than a bunch of racists. So what I'm saying is: in the near future, be careful with generalizing a race of people because that same generalization is why we have so many race problems in our world today. Now onto the ridiculous Britney Spears and John Lennon examples you used. Let's start with Britney. The reason her career tanked had nothing to do with the press. It had more to do with her mental instability. Shaving her head, attacking paparazzi with an umbrella, and that embarrassing VMA performance is what did it. The same thing happened with Mariah Carey's career when she had her breakdown, but I think MC bounced back a little bit better with TEOM. Now John Lennon. He certainly wasn't killed because he was a white man with influence and power; and there's no correlation between John getting shot by a psychotic man who was obsessed with him, which eventually turned to anger because he started to see John as a walking contradiction, to what the person above said about MJ. And I would explain to you how there was racism toward MJ, but like MJD said, "[t]he subject isn’t MJ, it is his charts & sales achievements." And I have no problem with keeping the focus on that, but I had to answer to the ignorance.
I would like to see as the next artists :
1) Queen
2) Elton John
3) Elvis Presley
Amazing job! Some albums are actually bigger than I expected!
I'd love to see Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez and Ariana Grande in the future 🙂
Perfect list，but i want bc above the king，white chritmas may be a big surprise
I believe Michael Jackson is doing better in streaming than the Beatles.
Spotify current numbers
MJ's monthly listeners: 14,530,601 (#87)
Beatles monthly listeners: 10,517,216 (#133)
Although MJ's numbers has been boosted a bit these days by the Scream project, but I do look at their numbers from time to time and MJ has always been well ahead of the Beatles, except for a short period when the Beatles enjoyed the initial hype of their catalog getting on Spotify.
And on YouTube (which is by far the biggest streaming platform) MJ is constantly around Nr. 20-30 (#23 as we speak with 76.6 million weakly views) while the Beatles aren't even in the Top 100 ( https://artists.youtube.com/charts/artists).
I know there are other streaming platforms too, but if this is an indication for something then I think MJ is ahead of the Beatles in streaming.
I'd be interested in Queen too. They have always struggled a bit in the US sales wise and since it is the biggest market it may affect them big time, but were doing well in other Western countries (and especially the UK, of course). They are doing very well in streaming though (esp. Spotify).
Hi MJD!
Sorry it took me so long to reply! Anyway, this analysis is perfect! I had never seen such amazing success from an artist before. I even consider MJ's stats more impressive than the Beatles!
While MJ has achieved phenomenal success in all sales avenue, I feel like he was proportionally weaker in the physical singles department. His is only slightly ahead of Madonna, and I can't believe he doesn't have a single song over 5m units in that format! I thought songs like Billie Jean and Beat It would be past that. Still, he hasn't released that many albums, and his consistency is amazing here! The Bad album's biggest seller was only at over 2m units, but all the singles combined add for an extraordinary 13m units!
Secondly, regarding his album sales, he is obviously huge in this avenue as well, But does MJ belong as the top seller in this format in any country/continent? In the US, he is outsold by Barbara, The Beatles etc while in Asia, he's outsold by Mariah and the Fab 4. I'm not sure about South America though. Madonna sold more than MJ in the 3 main markets there, but perhaps overall MJ outsold her in that continent? His European sales are fantastic also, with so many albums at 8m/10m+
Also, on your achievements page, you said that Thriller and Dangerous were the top 2 biggest selling international albums there, Are you referring to studio albums, because Mariah's #1's and Whitney's Bodyguard album outsold those 2 albums there. Also, Dangerous' sales in Asia are INSANE! Barely 1m in Japan yet over 4m outside of it is phenomenal. Is Dangerous the biggest selling album in Asia outside Japan?
I didn't expect Bad to be the 3rd most successful album as well! People often called it an under performance compared to Thriller, but in all honestly, Thriller is simply on another dimension, and if a 60m+ follow up is an under performance, then all albums by other artists are total flops then. Dangerous did absolutely amazing too.
Lastly, I wanna ask how many units did you think MJ's death has generated? Do you think he would still be this big in terms of overall success? I'm not devaluing his success, but his death gave his catalog such a huge boost like no other artist before!
Really looking forward for your next project!
