WHY MICHAEL JACKSON IS THE GREATEST

He is the most successful artist in history according to guinness records, was the most awarded artist in the history of music, has the strongest fan base, has the strongest influence around the globe, was and still remains the biggest selling artist of all time, his thriller still remains after 30 yrs of its release the largest selling album in history selling over 110 million, his HIStory album still remains the largest selling multiple disc album of all times selling over 40 million, his dangerous album is the most successful new jack swing album of all time, his bad album is one of the best selling albums in the history of music, his invincible had the highest first week of sales for a foreign album in France selling over 166,000 copies, elvis presley's estate is worth $300 million in 57 years while michael has made over $315 million in far less than 2 yrs, he gave over $300 million to charity supporting over 40 charities, he got eight (8) Guinness World Records in 2006 alone, he won 26 american music awards thats more than any other artist, his Bad World Tour was the highest-grossing tour ever at the time; with over $125 million earned; this record was later broken by the Dangerous World Tour and later broken again by the HIStory World Tour, Guinness World Records listed Thriller in 2006 as the "most successful music video" selling over 9 million units, mike's Thriller was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress; the first music video to ever receive this honor, bad album is the only album to have five of its singles peak at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, he was the first artist to chart four Top 10 singles from one album (Off the Wall), he was the first artist to chart seven Top 10 singles from one album (Thriller), he is the only artist to chart five # one hits, with "Thriller"'s "Billie Jean" he became the first artist to simultaneously have the number one album and number one single on Billboard's Pop Charts and Black Charts, following changes in Billboard's methodology he became the first artist to have a song debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (You Are Not Alone), his memorial broke several facebook records, over 30% of all tweets on Twitter published on the anniversary of his death were about Michael Jackson, he is the first artist to sell more than one million song downloads in a week, had the largest audience in tv history ever at 1993 halftime superbowl, gave the most watched interview in 1993, broke racial barriers, is the most imitated all over the world, was the first one to receive 8 grammys in one night, was one of the rarest celebrities to be inducted into hall of fame twice, is the only artist to be inducted into dance hall of fame, broke thousands of records that aren't broken till date, his this is it concerts ticket sales broke 100s of records, his death unprecedentedly crashed hundreds of websites' engines and again broke records, more than 700,000 tickets were sold in less than four hours for the cancelled This Is It concert series in 2009, he sold around 800 million albums worldwide, following his death he became the first artist to sell more than 2 million downloads in a week, this is it movie has earned over $300 million worldwide to date, it also set a record for concert films with over $103.9 million in worldwide ticket sales in its first five days of release, he was the biggest selling artist of 2009, his this is it concerts' tickets were sold out within an hour but public demand for tickets resulted in the addition of 40 more concerts AEG said michael could hv sold even more dates, around two million people applied for pre sale tickets that was enough to fill the venue 50 times over; more than 1.5 million fans caused two sites offering pre-sale tickets to crash within minutes of going online, we are the world single is the fastest-selling American pop single in history; it became the first ever single to be certified multi-platinum; it received a 4× certification by the Recording Industry Association of America; its the biggest selling single in both US and pop music history