Well well well, fresh from her No. 8 placement on the Billboard Album Artist Year-End , Shenseea is causing a stir on Twitter in the fashion of her mentor Kanye West.
The dancehall princess, turned pop hopeful tweeted an unprovoked one liner: “Bob Marley is bigger than Michael Jackson”. This comparions has been a barbershop conversation for a long time but it has long been settled for the simple fact that both artists are great in different spheres and genres, with Michael excelling where Bob didn’t and also having a longer living career.
othet than that, In terms of who had the biggest commercial success, the King Of Pop checks off all categories as the leader among his peers with the amount of records sold.
Even in the steaming era, of the two MJ has dominated globally as the leading 80s solo act on Spotify.
📊Most streamed 80s solo artists on Spotify (all credits):
1. Michael Jackson (10,7 billion)
2. Madonna (5 billion)
3. Whitney Houston (4,7 billion)
4. Bruce Springsteen (4,7 billion)
5. Billy Joel (4,1 billion)
6. Phil Collins (4,1 billion)
7. Bryan Adams (3,7 billion)— 𝕜𝕩 (@kxthrills) December 1, 2022
The new MJ The Musicalon Broadway, a jukebox retelling of Jackson’s story will have grossed $80 million, according Forbes’s Jackson estate source. 
Compared to Bob Marley, who last year generated $16 million to land at No. 11 on the list of highest earning dead musicians last year. Other than music Bob’s Brand is associated with speakers, turntables, headphones, clothing, lighters, psychedelics, thanks to an exclusive multi-year license agreement with Silo Wellness Inc.
Next year there are plans for a 12 week “One Love Experience” according to the CEO of Bob Marley Group Of Companies Cedella Marley.
It has been 41 years since the death of reggae rockstar Bob Marley and his message of One Love has become increasingly important to people’s lifestyles all over the world.
From major football leagues, to the war in Ukraine, Marley’s influence and inspiration may be found everywhere as his music grows in value. It is hard to find a musician that is not influenced by Bob Marley. Michael Jackson himself came to Jamaica to meet with Bob as a youth.
Bob has had a big influence on Pop Queen Rihanna’s career, the richest woman in music. She outright said he is her hero in a 2012 tweet.
Bob is also known as the artist who made the world open up to reggae music, the genre Shenseea hails from. His influence on fashion and pop culture over the years is immeasurable and his music can only be measured accurately beyond streams.
Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 at age 36, and his son Rohan, recently recalled a time when Michael Jackson had the opportunity to help the family out with a loan so they could purchase his music and image rights, and instead Michael offered to buy the rights to Bob Marley’s Catalogue for himself.
“We went to Michael (Jackson), and say ‘hey Micheal, could you help us?’ We need some money, we don’t have no money and they trying to take ours, Michael say ‘no, I’ll buy it’. MCA (also) wanted to buy it.” Rohan said.
It’s not surprising that Jackson wanted to do business rather than help out the Marley family with a loan to straighten their business. He was notorious for buying music rights in the 1980s from even persons he considered his friends.
After becoming friends with Paul McCartney, Jackson paid 47 million dollars to purchase ATV, from Australian billionaire Robert Holmes a Court. ATV had the rights to 251 Beatles songs, including “Hey Jude,” “Yesterday” and “Let It Be, as well as 4,000 other songs and a library of sound effects.
McCartney recalled on an episode of David Letterman in 2009 that, “I wrote [Jackson] a couple of letters and I said, Michael, don’t you think that after 30 years of being successful to this company you now own, don’t you think I could have a raise?” . Jackson’s response to his request was: “Oh Paul, that’s just business.
