Welp...

Purple Rain - 17 million

Thriller - 66 million
Bad - 35 million

Do you know what ‘sufficiently close’ means?

No one gaf bro we’re talking MUSIC

‘Besides, Prince and/or his record label had never promoted an album as much as Michael.’

Michael’s eras had lasted for years; Prince’s had NOT.

Entirely subjective.

Would not pull out

Undercertification exists too.

Exactly so sales are worthless in this discussion

Next you’re gonna bring up Mike had a pepsi commercial and prince didn’t

By the way, guys, did you know that Prince and Sheila E. (the third picture) might’ve been engaged?

MJ stans trying to "one-up" prince and put him down is always hilarious

they couldn't be anymore different and yet yall still try to compare the two just because they were the 2 biggest black male artists of the 80s

Lovely album btw

Underrated... that’s indisputable.

I feel like the JW lyrics are a big turn off for a lot of people

Yeah but appolonia said that they fell out big time

Prince refused to acknowledge you for five years before his death because of your lies,” Purple Rain star writes to
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Artistically, I deem ‘The Rainbow Children’ a comeback from the ‘Newpower Soul’ and ‘Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic’ eras.

That’s true.

mannnn what i love the NPG

Edit: Read “new power soul” as “new power generation”

I blame Kirk A. Johnson for that entirely.

Shoutout Prince for helping Lianne La Havas break into the mainstream worldwide

Prince also has a whole catelogue of tracks that became hits for other artists

All i'm saying is if the media didn't try to blackball prince and his music out of the radio from 1979-1984 it's entirely possible that he could've elevated to MJ's status in terms of sales/song charts

Yup

the song “Controversy” says it all