Here your credibility is gone. Thank you for this trash ass post.

great artist but lots better imo. pretty small discog too compared to a lot of goats.

people always bringing up non-musical factors to argue in favor

I love and adore Drake but Drake doesn’t even have 20% of prime Michael Jackson’s star power

Michael was single handedly dominating the industry and going against heavy hitter Rock and Pop stars who weren’t just commercial juggernauts but they were critically acclaimed

Talking just music who you got in mind?

I think of
Stevie
Bowie
Marvin
Prince (obviously)

I sometimes think ppl here confuse musically with popularity, performances and impact.
musically,artistically, creatively there are a lot of artist who rival MJ and can even top him

I think y’all just like men in wigs

I agree. But prince ain’t one of them

Will go through each of the artist you guys named to debunk this

Got nothing but time on my hands anyways

Michael was the pinnacle of everything

His albums were successful both critically and commercially which is borderline impossible to match

98% of artists sacrifice quality for sales or sales for quality/innovation

Michael had both times 1000

Prince literally wrote his music, produced for artist and gave them hits, changed the genre of pop/rock and actually played an instrument.

I don’t think prince has the hit power that Michael has but we’ll see

Yes.

I love MJ and yeah I agree he's the most impactful and influential but there's a lot of artist during his time that were making more daring music and discography was way more versatile than MJ. plus their impact is still heard today through different genres.
you don't get albums like
BLONDE
TPAB
TAKE CARE
without Stevie, Prince and Bowie

stevie
bowie
marvin
prince
the velvet underground (+lou reed solo)
neil young
bob dylan
the beatles
the rolling stones
outkast
grateful dead
frank zappa
the beach boys
parliament/funkadelic
sonic youth

dont pounce on me mj stans

No one getting close to MJ status ever

list is fire I'll also add Kate Bush, Talking Heads and Nina simone

Man I can’t lie MJ the only artist I truly take personally I gotta stay outta these threads lol

yeah im forgetting a bunch more

Y’all giving me a real life chore rn

Kanye & Stevie the only ones imo