Beatles v.s Micheal Jackson

A discussion arose in class pitting The Beatles against Micheal Jackson arguing which one was better. For starters The Beatles were a band and and MJ was a solo artist. So to try and compare them would be unfair. But if you had to judge the only way is to check their album sales. Micheal Jackson Thriller is the sole album to ever sell over 100 million copies while the closet Beatles album is almost 80 million copies short. So in that retrospect M.J wins hands down in a landslide. Then if you added all their record sales then once again M.J wins by over 100 million copies. I cant say that album says makes an artist because some songs live forever and some are hot for a certain era. So in my opinion they are both great.