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Seven years ago, when two men made detailed, unsettling accusations in an HBO documentary that Michael Jackson had sexually abused them as boys, the music industry pondered a striking question<\/a>: Could Jackson, one of the most popular and beloved artists of all time, really be canceled?<\/p>\n The answer, it turned out, was a resounding \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n As the Jackson estate\u2019s latest megaproject, the Hollywood biopic \u201cMichael<\/a>,\u201d arrives this week, the King of Pop is more popular \u2014 and the business behind him more lucrative \u2014 than at any point since his 2009 death<\/a>.<\/p>\n Streaming activity for his catalog of hits like \u201cThriller,\u201d \u201cBillie Jean\u201d and \u201cBad\u201d rivals that of contemporary stars like Kendrick Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter. A Broadway musical, \u201cMJ<\/a>,\u201d once thought to be endangered by HBO\u2019s two-part documentary, \u201cLeaving Neverland<\/a>,\u201d has instead proved a sustained hit, selling 2.3 million tickets worth $328 million since it started performances in late 2021, according to the Broadway League.<\/p>\n And every Halloween, you can reliably hear the synthesized beat and spooky sound effects of \u201cThriller\u201d booming out of school parking lots and trick-or-treat houses all across the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nytimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seven years ago, when two men made detailed, unsettling accusations in an HBO documentary that Michael Jackson had sexually abused them as boys, the music industry pondered a striking question: Could Jackson, one of the most popular and beloved artists of all time, really be canceled? The answer, it turned out, was a resounding \u201cno.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2391653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[66715,309642,466607,21912,356576,365119],"class_list":["post-2391652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-jackson","tag-michael","tag-michael-2026-movie","tag-movies","tag-pop-and-rock-music","tag-suits-and-litigation-civil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Michael-Jacksons-Music-Was-Too-Big-to-Be-Canceled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391654,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391652\/revisions\/2391654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}