If you don't see how not having to produce or play all the instruments on your own album means it takes less effort to make it then I agree that doesn't automatically make the end result better but in this case it is

No it doesn’t…

I see five 10/10 or 9/10 albums on there and some 8s to round it out

MJ doesn't have an albums discography that robust, not trying to hate but Prince has more good albums by a lot and that's one argument in his favor

More than once since 2011

Sign was butchered so hard on streaming, glad they fixed it

Lol at you naming only the 80s albums then a random 90s album… because you know most of his 90s output was ass. Sinks your entire take. Michael doesn’t have any lapse in his discography, period. That > one good decade.

idk if it's been mentioned but in case someone hasn't said it, Purple Rain was already being written and shot as a film in summer 1982 under the title "Dreams"

pretty neat fact

invincible is dogshit lol

Motown MJ alone would get prince out of here in a verzuz.

Bro told me to listen to it like I never heard it before im old as f*** in a Prince thread !!! Lmao

It's easy to be consistent when you don't drop anymore lol Musicology from 2004 is C tier Prince and I would still take that over Invincible.

You don't call that upbringing a serious handicap? Imagine if Prince was raised amongst all the Motown goats

Playing your own instruments does not make the music automatically better.

Thriller, but I fw Purple Rain

No, it isn’t. Even the kids of today agree that it’s great. Heaven Can Wait is a top 5 viral song on Tik tok right now and just did 100k+ streams on Spotify alone on two different days last week. Dude is still bodying s*** 2 years later with a whole new generation off an album that was blackballed in the US. You sound crazy.

sales/streams don't equate to good music buddy

Purple Rain ofc

and no i dont care that MJ is more popular

When the doves cry 😭

Are you old enough to have seen princes tour in 2011? :elon:

Number don't lie

Piano and a Microphone, no?

Prince has a bunch of 90s stuff as good or better than MJ's 2 albums in the 90s imo

and framing it as one good decade vs. an entire discography doesnt sound as impressive when you consider that Prince had more 80s music than MJ ever had total

im not a huge fan of pitting them up against each other tho anyway i still like MJ a lot, not knocking him or anything

I am saw him twice in 2012, once at 3 AM with Janelle Monae premiering Electric Lady material

He took our phones so I got no footage from it, but that's how Prince stories go

No it was typical f***in crazy prince show. Maceo was there and everything.

I was old enough but my money wasn’t was 17 making 7.50 at a Burger King