Michael Jackson is dead. Sure, I could make jokes about the zippers on little boy’s pants flying at half mast, or how he’s singing for Saint Peter now.
But the reality is I don’t think there’s a guy in recent history that’s had such an influence. While you may think that I’m overstating his importance, consider this: Michael Jackson sold more than 750-million albums worldwide.
Michael Jackson has sold 5 times more records that U2 (Michael Jackson is one man).
For every 8 people on this planet… there is one Michael Jackson album.
There are thousands of songs in the SONiC playlist – hundreds of artists. If each of them sold an average of 2.5-million records, you would be approaching the number of albums Michael Jackson has sold. In fact, it’s actually feasible that Michael Jackson has sold more records than all SONiC artists combined.
A lot of people have mixed feelings about the death. While some are mourning the loss of a legend – The King of Pop, others are saying good riddance to the OJ Simpson of child molestation. The worst part is we may never know whether or not he was guilty. He was acquitted. Did he have a good lawyer, or was he just a man who really did miss out on his childhood?
