omg michael jackson is soo hott!

OMG !! The Beatles are soooo hot

the beatles are the greatest ever.

michael jackson is the greatest ever!!

Can’t wait for Adam Lambert.

WHOA! Wait till thaa michael jackson “This Is It”Cd comes out.Now thats gonna sale soo fast! and then his movie.Damm.
Gotta love that Michael Jackson Ish<3

Michael Jackson is the greatest of all time. He has no equal. The Beatles can fight for second with a lot of others but none will ever touch MJ’s career. Nobody ever. Period.

JP you don’t anything about the Beatles so –move on!

MJ wasnt the greatest…damn just one year ago people loved making fun of him now thet hes dead everyones like oh you cant do that.

WOW….Beatles can fight for second?!?! MIchael Jackson is great but come on JP you obviously dont know anything about music ….waiting for Adam Lambert? So you’re the one buying his cd’s..lol

Sorry, but the Beatles make Michael Jackson seem like a lightweight, untalented hack.

If you like the Beatles, buy the new Green Day CD. It’s a thing of beauty, and the Beatles’ influence is all over it.

Michael Jackson Is THE GREATEST ARTIST OF ALL TIME! He’s like the King Of Music and Dance! No one will EVER come close to him. So the haters should stop saying bad things about him. I don’t care about what he did. His Music is AWESOME!

first of all michael jackson only influenced a limited number of things. dance being the biggest one. i’m sick of all of this bullshit from people after he died NOW saying he was such a great talent. i bet most of the people talking about how great he was were still cracking jokes about him the day before he died. listen, if any of you know anything about music you would know that the beatles influenced anything and everything that has to do with music. they influenced everything from the way that music is produced and written all the way to where it’s performed live. NO ONE compares to the beatles. unless elvis and brian wilson got together and formed a band. that would be pretty sweet.

Adam is my number one! Oh yes indeed. Love ADAM!

MJ is so overrated….the beatles were great and influenced anything…
The greatest solo artist is the one and only Prince….

You can’t compare Michael Jackson to the Beatles. That is like comparing apples and oranges. Both were in a league of their own and no other single artist can touch MJ and no other group can touch the Beatles. Both revolutionized the music world and brought something different to the table.

CiCi – you are absolutely right, and this is it!
There are only Michael Jackson and The Beatles, and the rest…!

Re. Brandon | 10/6/2009, 11:59 am EST:
Your should accurately quote New York Times: “There is Michael Jackson and there is everyone else”.
See the photo above? Why is it not a Beatles photo instead? Because MJ is beauty and magic.

WAITING FOR ADAM LAMBERT’S ALBUM!! WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG? LOL, I’M GETTING A BIT DESPERATE FOR NEW MUSIC!!

WAITING FOR KRIS ALLEN’S ALBUM!!!wHAT IS TAKING SO LONG? LOL, I’M GETTING A BIT DESPERATE FOR NEW MUSIC!!

Jay z!!!

I’m excited to hear Kris Allen’s new album coming out next month. I think he will be one of the better artists making a debut in this decade!

the Beatles are #1 ALWAYS!

michael jackson kinda sucks i hate all this bullshit of michael jackson cause he died

Michael, I Miss You, Come Back ]:

nuff said

ADAM,ADAM AND ADAM
CAN’T WAIT FOR ADAM’S STORM!

I am just waiting for Adam Lambert’s album to come out! Still no news about the single! I just can’t wait!

Pre-ordered ADAM LAMBERT’S debut album on Amazon.com now I’m waiting for his single this month pre-ordered 2012 movie sound track with ADAM’S new song TIME FOR MIRACLES now am waiting for the vid too. November can’t get here soon enough for me.

Waiting for ADAM’S new album, single, video, movie 2012, movie 2012 sound track, special DELUXE EDITION of his album and anything else of his … posters, etc. … for my Christmas list.

Michael Jackson? If he hadn’t died we wouldn’t even be talking about him! Take Thriller out of his career and he was AVERAGE. So what that he could dance…what’s that got to do with how good a record is? The Beatles were (and still) consistent with album and single sales….get over the MJ thing!! His death was the best comeback he could ever hoped to make.

SHAKIRA’s album is going to kick everyone’s ass.

I suppose he was not dead, yet, when 50 London concerts “This is it” were sold out in such record time.
How pathetic losers always tried to dismiss MJ’s success in life and in death.

Album sales are down because the MUSIC SUCKS. Plain and simple.

Can’t wait for MJ and Lambert

Gotta grab the new Adam Lambert CD. The guys voice is just remarkable and Adam just Rocks!! Yeah the Beatles are the best of their time for sure. Really glad someone like Adam is the start of a whole new deal.

Indeed the music is in the voice not in the words.

This is not implying anybody did not really have a voice …

Michael Jackson was hugely influential, but in all the wrong ways. If you’re not a fan of music today, you can thank Michael Jackson for influencing all of these lightweights. He made it more about the dancing and the style than the music. And the music was just lightweight pop. To me, Michael Jackson is like McDonald’s – hugely popular but pretty low quality. Inspired a bunch of other fast food joints. I don’t need to say anything about the Beatles. I think their music speaks for itself.

EMINEM is the Greatest

the beatles an mj are totally different artist . though i like more mj both change music forever.

and also i think mj was not overrated, but the haters always tried to bring him down even after his dead mj is awesomeee

You’ve listed a bunch of artists coming up that are supposed to provide “help” to CD sales without mentioning Susan Boyle? Huh? The woman who’s been at or near the top of Amazon for over a month already? Okay……

Micheal changed the music industry as well as saved it. Not only that he changed the way people enjoyed music. He had a huge influence on pop culture as well as many of new artists not only in the US, but all over the world. Saying that he had little to no influence on anything is just as ignorant as saying that the Beatles did nothing for music.

Eminen is a freak.

Beatles are more about political message (baby boomers’) than about music.

If you call talking and mumbling music …

All the elitist Beatles fans saying how much greater the Beatles are compared to Michael Jackson. Just keep on buying those Beatles records…the Jackson estate owns all those too. You ain’t making anyone sad in their camp.

I got it under control, guys.

^I know your deepest secrets.

Lest we all forget.

Michael Jackson did nt start with thriller, he was making number ones as a preteen for more than a decade before thriller hit. Also off the wall was the album that introduced him as a solo artist not thriller and off the wall was multi platinum.

Haters need to get their facts straight.

Micheal jackson almost single handlely recreated the music video industry. He was the last artist to generate mass hysteria by his mere presense.

National leaders from across the globe expressed deep sorrow at his passing, is that a sign of having lightweight poppy influence?

And dont forget Elvis, he has to be mentioned. And if we really want to get technical and speak of global influence of a single artist then Bob Marley is incomparable, The man bascially established a religon and way of life internationally.

So dont hate and overcompensate. There are FOUR

Micheal Jackson
The Beatles
Elvis Presly
Bob Marley

Forget that he did turn into a freak, was behaviorally a child living in a sort of wonderland, had failed marriages of qestionable quality and preferred the company of 8 year olds. I have no opinion on the molestation but I do know I still freak out a bit when I see him in an interview and I feel sad for the guy. Sure, when he passed, I got a surge of sentiment with his music but once that died down, I respected his contribution but he is in no way the best in Music. I am not sure we have seen the best because our audiences out there are not savvy music buyers. Until then, it is Iggy Pop somedays, Beatles another, Led Zep at othertimes with a weekend full of cool electronic acts. Sorry guy but POP music may be POPular but it is in no way the smartest and I want my music to reflect who I am. I care what others see me listening to because I am smarter than the Beyonce crowd.

First of all the Beatle were influenced by R&B groups prior to their arrival to the United States. The Beatle were great for their era, and so was Elvis who also influenecd the Beatle and so did Little Richard whom the Beatle lived with when they came to America. MJ was as big as they come don’t knock him and call him a hack, this guy was very talented
and giving. he was the best what he did. i can’t think of to many bad songs that the Bealtes, Elvis, or MJ has sung, most of songs where pretty good. and yes all great talents influence other so everthing posted on this site is subjective. there so many un-named artist through out history who will never get credit for contribution to music

Anyone who has any clue about music, from the 50s right through 2009, will know that the Beatles are the most influential recording act ever. Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Led Zeppelin have also had a profound effect on music and culture. I did oodles of research because I was thinking of writing a book (and still may). Based on that, the correct order in terms of musical and cultural impact would be (1) The Beatles. More record sales than any other artist despite being around for under a decade, remarkable influence on culture, the single greatest influence on other musicians (2) Elvis Presley. Huge record sales and cultural influence (3) Michael Jackson. Changed the face of music, video and dance in the 80s, huge sales from Thriller (4) Led Zeppelin. Brought heavy metal into the mainstream. Didn’t appeal to all people but a huge influence in any case. Like them or not, don’t knock what they accomplished. The facts are the facts and the Beatles win the bout of heavyweights.

All of you people who think that “The Beatles” were better than Michael Jackson, you are entitled to your opinion but MJ got the last laugh because he owns 50% of the Sony/ATV Catalog which owns most of “The Beatle’s” songs. So every time you buy a “Beatle’s” cd or download one of their songs Michael Jackson makes money. Ka-ching.

Michael Jackson, still “The King Of Pop”. r.i.p.