Harry Styles Dubbed ‘King Of Pop,’ Michael Jackson Fans Disagree

Love or hate Harry Styles’s music, there’s merely no denying that he’s bought popular culture in a chokehold. His newest Harry’s Home single, “As It Was,” throttled the highest spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 for 10 weeks in a row till being dethroned on the most recent chart by Nicki Minaj and nonetheless landed at No. 2 solely dropping lower than a p.c of its streams final week. In the meantime, Harry’s House itself was an enormous hit total, with a jaw-dropping pure gross sales complete (330,000) and over a half-million equal models in its first week.

However even with all these accolades to his identify, there are many people who consider that Rolling Stone UK overstepped its bounds in calling Kinds “the brand new King of Pop” — a title that was initially reserved for the one-and-only late, nice Michael Jackson. And let’s preserve all the way in which funky; nevertheless spectacular Harry Kinds’ present stage of success is, it nonetheless pales compared to MJ’s heights, which can by no means be achieved once more, even with the appearance of streaming (or perhaps due to it). Thriller is 34× Platinum licensed by the RIAA and continues to be the best-selling album ever.

That is why it is smart that there have been these fast to close down Rolling Stone‘s proclamation, together with MJ’s nephew Taj Jackson, who settled the talk succinctly on Twitter, writing, “The title has been retired. No disrespect to Harry Kinds, he’s mega gifted. Give him his personal distinctive title.” Loads of others agreed with him, censuring Rolling Stone UK for its audacity.