wow True MJ Fan, i think you’re wrong on some points. you must be a teenager who was too young to experience MJ’s irrelevancy and downfall in the 1990s. HIStory (somewhat of a compilation album), Blood on the Dance Floor (only a remix album) and Invincible were all sales flops that failed to make MJ hugely popular again. they did not sell as many copies as you like to believe. his posthumous releases, This Is It and Michael, were also flops. none of the singles from Michael even made it to pop radio stations. ask anyone to name a single, or even a song, from it, and they can’t. people will even have trouble naming songs from HIStory, way back from ’95, and onward. think about it, Dangerous was his last great album and the last time people thought of him as “cool” in the music world, and it came out way back in 1991. he only released two crappy albums after Dangerous (not counting that remix album) while he was alive. he could be called one of the greatest entertainers of all time, but not one of the greatest artists or musical geniuses of all time. he only put out like 6 or 7 albums in 30 years. how is that genius? also, MJ WAS NOT the first black artist to get played on MTV. Prince, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner, the Pointer Sisters, Eddy Grant, and Musical Youth were all played on MTV before him. MJ was just the first black artist to become HUGE from his MTV success and have several videos of his get played over and over again.
