According to Forbes, Michael earned around $160 million just in the last 12 months. If you think that is a ridiculous amount of money, you are right. In fact, he earned more money in the last year than any living pop star.

Madonna is one of the greatest of the female singers of all time. Comparison with most of the great female singers like Sandie Shaw, Mary Hopkins and some other popular female vocalists of a bygone era indeed does her a lot of good. She comes out on top. These are not just assumptions made from viewing statistics from record sales, but it is the general opinion that she is a great artist possessing enormous talent. Not taking into consideration the eras in which different stars reigned, I would say that that Madonna is the queen of song as much as Elvis Presley was the king.

I can name a list of people who are living off of Michael Jackson’s fame, but none of them are as notorious for it as Chris Brown. In this fifth chapter of "Why Today's Mainstream Music Sucks", we will be discussing Chris Brown.