1.
Elvis and and
James Brown were given the names....Jackson gave himself the name and insisted it be used if anyone wanted him to show up.
2. The biggest selling record of all time is the Eagles Greatest Hits....which says a lot about the tastes of people. Thriller is 2nd.
3.
Elvis is the most successful solo artist and since he's over a
Billion sales....2nd place isn't even close.
He's been dead for almost
30-years and still sells in the millions and has had
#1 hits and records. Last year his estate grossed
$42 million. It's the first time that he wasn't
#1 on the
top-earning dead celebrities list.
Cobain was
#1 and that's only because Courtney sold
25% of
Nirvana's publishing rights.
http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/010804.asp 
Forget about sales, Jackson can't give his records away.
Jackson's people always inflate his record sales higher than they are officially.
You never see any official orginzation or even his former label using those exaggerated numbers for his worldwide sales, only his representives.
4. If you adjust for inflantion you will find
Elvis made more money in any in almost every year after his first than Jackson.
5. Jackson's worldwide sales as a solo artist are around 300 million....
far far short of a Billion+. The Jackson 5 worldwide sales are around 41 million.
Elvis' U.S. sales alone are
125 million. As bad as his films were they were almost always the top 5 to 10 money makers the year of their release.
Jackson has already been forgotten except for his most diehard and delusional fans. Did I mention he can't give away any records, anymore....and that
Sony dumped him? His last three releases have all lost Sony large amounts of money. Jackson is on the constant verge of bankrupty....the only thing that has kept him from going into the streets is the
Beatles publishing rights on
271 songs. Of course, he now only owes half of them....and even then in name only. He had to sell the other half to
Sony to pay back debits and the half he owns were used to secure loans he can't pay back. He's on constant verge of defaulting on those loans.
Those publishing rights are currently worth $1.2 Billion and if he were to sell his half he would end up with next to nothing.
Oh yeah, Jackson is a pedophile.
