Billboard releases top ten artists of all time list

[8WON6]

what is this list based on? just sales or number of weeks charting?

 

[ThaBronxBully]

Madonna At 2 Is Nuts lol

 

[ciubaca]

Top 10 artist ... what aspect? Sales, fame?
In those aspects Em should replace rihanna

 

[BiggWebb79]

Mike not being #1 invalidate this list, Rihanna on her but not Kanye, yeah this list is straight...

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Wheres james brown

 

[iamduval]

I think this is based on charting which makes sense for rhianna to be on it

 

[KidJSoul]

How Michael Jackson ain’t 1 or 2

Michael and Stevie should be higher, Elvis, Madonna and Elton should be lower. And people never realized just how popular Rihanna was because they were Beyonce stans.

Elton John at no time in history was ever a bigger pop star than the Jackson’s or cracker ass Elvis if we are being real. shyt Prince was way bigger too. The Top 5 being damn near all white is a damn slap in the face.

Michael Jackson at 8? nikka what? I love Janet and she def deserves to be on this list but over Michael? Nah. Michael shouldn't be below 3. Honestly I would have him 1 but I can see Stevie being placed higher.

How the fukk is Mike not number one let alone top 5 boy had more swag and style than all of the Beatles combined FOH

Pretty fukking much

Bullshyt. I grew up in the 80’s. No way in hell is MJ not number one.

I can’t really speak on Elvis or the Beatles. But I know for damn sure MJ was bigger than fukking Madonna.

I don't know what's going on with the downplaying of Michael lately when it comes to these music lists, but it needs to STOP. After that Rolling Stones top 500 songs of all time, I was fukking done.

I expected Madonna at #2 but Michael absolutely should be #1.

Janet above Michael is... hilarious.

Rihanna has had a ridiculous amount of hits. Still, I agree with you.

you can tell they just added Janet to pander. Janet is NOT top 10. that's why the black artist only make the second of the list.
MJ should be number first off. Definitely not below Madonna nor Elton John. Also, Whitney> Elton John. Beatles need to get off that one spot. they can come second.

guys it's not a subjective list

It's technically based on sales and longevity on the charts. Which, as i outlined before though, is not really great metric. But don't bash the list: bash Billboard's dumb metrics.

It never valued radio airplay enough, for instance. It also doesn't take into account record labels not shipping the songs enough which can depress hot 100 rankings. And genre sales.


The reality is that I rarely hear Janet Jackson at all in my day to day life. But I hear Michael a lot

 

[KidJSoul]

I think this is based on charting which makes sense for rhianna to be on it

Agreed. If anything, it just shows how flawed Billboard's metrics originally were.

 

[TL15]

Janet ahead of Michael

 

[Luke Cage]

Madonna was never ranked higher than Michael Jackson at any point during their careers. Can't hate on the rest of list.

 

[mykey]

Fake list:

No Louis Armstrong,
Sam Cooke,
Ray Charles,
Bob Marley,
Aretha Franklin,
Chuck Berry,
Little Richard,
Bo Diddley,
James Brown,
Tupac Shakur,
Scott Joplin.....

You get the drift.

These were musicians who actually invented or redefined whole genres of music.

Elvis Presley was an overglorified plagarist.

 

[Luke Cage]

guys it's not a subjective list

It's technically based on sales and longevity on the charts. Which, as i outlined before though, is not really great metric. But don't bash the list: bash Billboard's dumb metrics.

It never valued radio airplay enough, for instance. It also doesn't take into account record labels not shipping the songs enough which can depress hot 100 rankings. And genre sales.


The reality is that I rarely hear Janet Jackson at all in my day to day life. But I hear Michael a lot

makes sense. I was wondering how Janet could be higher than michael.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I’m tempted to neg op off gp becuz I can’t neg the person who made this list

 

[Paper Boi]

Janet don't even believe she better than Michael

 

[Hey_zeus]

is all that is needed