Michael Jackson Vs. Taylor Swift? Who wins? 

They compared Taylor Swift's best year to Michael Jackson's death year and that wasn't even Michael's most successful year.

Michael Jackson currently is the most awarded. She beat him in AMAs and Beyonce beat him in Grammy wins. but he still has the most Awards overall. With 834 Awards under his belt including both Grammys and AMAs, which he holds the Guinness World Record for. that i dont think anyone has surpassed him yet hence why hes the greatest entertainer.

You have to look at technology and availability. If Michael Jackson had access to Itunes, streaming etc. Can you imagine how thriller would have did?

That lady literally read off a bias record sheet that’s not overall btw awards don’t make u a better artist also streaming compared to records sells are two different things PERIOD! MJ IS THE KING OF MUSIC FOREVER!👑💯

Michael Jackson had recorded four number one hits by age eleven. Michael Jackson could check into a hotel anywhere in the world and five minutes later they would be calling the police for crowd control. Michael Jackson can be identified with numerous dance moves (the robot; moonwalk), plus he had dances routines for every song he used in his stage performances. Michael Jackson is popular with a wide and diverse group of people all over the world. Michael Jackson had multiple number one hits as the lead singer of a group and as a solo artist. It’s like comparing a rocking horse to a thoroughbred; a drone to a Learjet; a skateboard to a sports car.

The problem with these comparisons is that Michael Jackson’s fame and legacy is far more than just statistics. His influence wasn’t just hit songs, ticket sales, awards won, and records broken. That played a huge role in it, don’t get me wrong but that man literally changed the world as people knew it at the time. No other artist has reached that level of influence on culture and society since and that unfortunately is a really difficult to both quantify and explain.

This is the age of social media and internet. Michael didn't have any of those advantages n still was absolutely hugggee

Yeah go ahead and tell her to clock out and never mention Michael Jackson’s name again. What a goofy

Yeah can we talk about that she brought a new album last year, while michaels last album was in 2001 and he still sold over 20 million in 2009. Michaels album Thriller is still the most sold and most successful album of all time

Thriller? Bad? Dangerous? History? Compare that. Why are you comparing swifts best year with Jackson's worst sales year of 2009 with allegations and stuff. Who's more famous? Michael Jackson obviously. Michael Jackson is the second most famous human on the planet after Jesus.

Y'all going to have the same conversation with another artist next year or two. The same thing happened last year with Drake. Before that with Beyonce, even Justin Bieber managed to make it into the conversation in the early 10s. MJ will remain the ultimate standard while the artist being compared with him will change frequently.

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Just compared his death year to her best year

Michael Jackson’s album Thriller still holds the world record for the best selling album

MJ CLEARS and its not even close💀

legends know mj sold a billion records

Music is not number is feeling

Taylor Swift Don't match because she comes from the age of the internet. Michael does not. Nuff said

The only person you can compare Micheal jackson to is the beatles Elvis presley rn:Am i a hoke to you?

Obviously michael jackson just bc they said she's having these sales doesn't mean she's great. Not all of us are swiftness as they call it. Taylor still yeah has room to do stuff but she does not have that sucxes yet and I don't like she thinks she's all hot or anything cause she's not. Do I like some music of hers yeah but maybe 3 that's it. She's a country singer right so I she might be a great country singer but that's it.

The weight of online sales is like 1 lb The weight of physical sale is 10 lb Artists, bands, and musicians have to sell x10 of what they do now to have the same weight. So Taylor would need 22 million x 10 to equal MJ. Id even say she'd need close to x20. So online sales will really never beat the old methods of physical sales. Also, to sell so much as MJ did, you'd need a HUGE audience. Taylors audience really doesnt come close to MJs, as his audience was literally every corner of the Earth lol. His music and performances obviously resonated eith much more people. The dances and the music was groundbreaking Even the biggest artist nowdays would have a hard time with some of the small time artists back then

The question was can we compare the album sales and they didn’t compared the album sales. They compared Taylor’s biggest year with Michaels death year

Let's be realistic, Michael and Taylor are from different eras.... If we argue, who sells more records, or who receives more awards, or who earns more money doing concerts, in the end it only remains in numbers.... but that doesn't influence anything the artist, the true artist is recognized for his talent in his musical creativity, singing style, dancing style, lyrical style, fashion style and more for his personality.... and taylor will never be able to surpass, nor be Michael's height... Michael is the most complete artist in many areas, here are some examples, 1) He was the first to make "the lunar step", a dance label that was broadcast for the first time on TV, from there everything changed 2) he was the first to make a music video in the style of a short film, that is, a story to tell apart from the song as it was a thriller 3) he was the first to release a film about himself as an artist, but with a recreated story like "moonwalker", he left the "smooth criminal" legacy in that film. 4) he was the one who gave life to the MTV channel, which is now an entire music industry where artists are currently recognized... broadcasting their video clips daily on TV 5) he was the artist with the highest quality of human being, by giving humanitarian contributions to different social problems in the world such as donations and contributions 6) He was the artist who innovated the most in concert shows, creating different scenarios, choreographies and special effects 7) He was the artist who generated the most trends worldwide in terms of imitations of his dance.... even though he was dead, there are new generations who do it through social networks These are some examples of why Michael will continue to be superior to Taylor, I don't discredit the singer's talent, she is a good artist... but she still has a lot to do, maybe in 4 years she will be at Madonna's level... .but there it is

Thriller is still the best selling album of all time worldwide. Period.

When she does it for twenty years, then maybe, because that's how long he held the number one spot

who is Taylor Swift ?

It's not about the quantity.....

Like don’t fucking compare someone who literally loved his people to someone who just sings and dances weird asf… MICHAEL JACKSON IS WONDERFUL.

Michael sold 32 million copys of thriller swift didnt beat him LOL

My grandparents lived in rural africa in the micheal era no social media ,no tv , no radio no electricity and even they knew who micheal was .Are yall kidding?

we can't compare those things atm guys, complete different way to sell music, and social media didnt exist back then, and Taylor would probably be totally different witouth MJ impact like the all music industry

michael jackson by far

What about Michael Jackson at his peak?! Does that 70 million dollar sale in 1984???

Let me say it - MJ is at least 5 times more popular than Taylor Swift.

You have to see the culture today and then. Art is dead now a days and we have become so accustomed to bad taste. Lets take the art if these two artists and compare them MJ is far superior if we do that.

They're wrong. The only person who can fairly compete with MJ in fame is Jesus himself.

That's like saying Jordan's 2003 was worse than jason tatum 2023 stats... Why nit compare peak years? Because if we do we will wee that 70 million is more than 22 by over 3 times!!!

Michiel jackson 🌎 no1 dancer king of pop

why people always do this? comparing tay to MJ., and then comparing her to beyonce, and then comparing her to drake. and the most ridiculous things: BW comparing her to kelce's ex's ass. Look here, MJ is a legend, and he start from as a group since he was like 7? or 8. and he has had a long career bfore his death, he was a mega star in the time where social media isnt exist yer. no toktok, fcbook, ig, X, youtube were accessible only for small portion of people who can afford comp and internet, no cellphone. so MJ is the legend. give Taylor more year. then judge her when she was 40 or 50. who knew she could smashed another awards, another achievement. you just want to talk about tay and making fun of her. not cool

‘Thank God for social media as its helping people surpass exceptional talents by an atom JUST in certain categories.! still, I say, congratulations to her.!

Michael jacksonNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN❤NN❤N❤NN❤N❤NN❤❤NN❤

You do know they shut down social media platforms because of his death …. You know what nvm 🤦🏽‍♂️

Far out, Michael Jackson is more famous

ANY JACKSON MICHAEL JANET DESTROY TAYLOR SORRY. TAYLOR NEVA PLAYED IN THE AUDI

or or OR we could stop comparing completely different artists and appreciate them for how they have massively contributed to the music industry and the world in their own ways, even if you don't like their music. Because whatever you think about Taylor Swift or Michael Jackson or Beyoncé, they have all had a massive impact along with many other amazing artists and its a stupid argument anyways.

Taylor isn’t sh!t compared to Jackson

6 billion ppl back then compare to 8 billions now, biggest doesn’t meant shit 2 billions extra ppl and u only pass 3 mill?

Stfu pink lady michael’s a legend 😊

Ladies shut up I don’t care Micheal Jackson is so much better than t swift

When ever did an MJ concert ever cause a 2.3 magnitude earthquake. TS did. There's your answer.