Michael Jackson
20 videos in the corpus, 12 from WatchMojo and its sister channels and 8 from competitors. 36 comments mention it, 17 of them unprompted.
Where this subject stands
Each signal is a 0-100 rank against the 262 subjects measured in this run. The combined score weights them 30% demand, 25% momentum, 25% opening and 20% fit.
Momentum at 72 of 100 reads as rising, with less heat in the comments than a now call needs.
Demand is the strongest of the four signals here at 86 of 100, and opening the weakest at 44, both ranked against the 262 subjects in this run. Where an opportunity has been written for this subject, its caveat names the weakest signal or a judgment risk.
The counts each signal was built from
Nothing here is a judgment. Every figure is counted from the uploads and comments collected, grouped under the signal it feeds.
- Comments mentioning it
- 36
- of 13,584 counted in the run
- Raised unprompted
- 17
- under videos that were not about it
- Explicit requests
- 3
- asking for a list or a follow-up
- Where-is-X arguments
- 5
- naming what a list left out
- Likes on those comments
- 349
- summed across every mention
- Views across its videos
- 523k
- all channels, lifetime views at collection
- Uploads in the last 14 days
- 5
- against 11 in the 60 days before, all channels
- Upload lift
- 0.83x
- its share of all uploads, recent window over prior
- Conversation lift
- 6.52x
- 31 recent mentions against 1 prior, as shares of all comments in each window
- Competitor supply in the window
- 4
- videos from 1 channel in the last 74 days
- Supply rank
- 83
- of 100 among subjects in this run; higher means more crowded
- Since WatchMojo last covered it
- 5 days
- last main-channel upload on it 2026-08-22
- Owned index
- 1.1x
- median views over channel median, WatchMojo, MsMojo and MojoPlays
- Competitor index
- 0.6x
- the same measure across the competitor set
- Fit basis
- This subject
- 12 owned videos on the subject as evidence
Lifts compare the last 14 days with the 60 days before inside one collection run, as shares of everything published or commented in each window, so a subject with two uploads can show a large lift on a small base. Indexes are views over the channel’s own median for the same type, on videos at least three days old, which is what lets a small channel’s breakout show up next to a large one’s.
Opportunities that name this subject
An opportunity is a person's call, written against the signals above and citing the comments and videos it was read from.
No authored opportunity names this subject yet
The signals above are measured either way. The call is what a person adds, and none has been written for this one.
WatchMojo and sister channels on it
Newest first: 12 owned uploads on the subject, 6 of them from the main channel. The index is views over that channel's median for the same type.
Competitor videos beating their own median
Ranked by index, views over the channel's own median for the same type on videos at least three days old. 2 competitor videos on this subject ran at 2x or more.
In the audience’s words
Public comments that name the subject, unattributed and never paraphrased. Likes are the engagement each comment earned under its video.
Explicit requests
Viewers asking outright for a list, a sequel or a follow-up. Rare on this channel, which is what makes each one count.
If you do a top 20, please include Michael Jackson's 1988 memoir "Moonwalk".
Where is X
The audience naming what a list left out. Disagreement is demand.
George Michael should be higher, and Michael Jackson shouldn't even be on this list - he was lip-syncing.
Wycleaf Jean "Stay Alive" Should Be On The List " Michael Jackson " Thriller " Is The Best
I knew michael jackson be #1 but how is Avril lavigne not mention at all? She was huge in the 2000s?!
Great list as always Some quality flicks from Categories that didn't even get an honourable mention: Remake: The Toxic Avenger Franchise: Freakier Friday Animation: Dog Man Indie: Bob Trevino Likes It Comedy: The Baltimorons Thriller: Drop Foreign: Rental Family
Raised unprompted
The subject brought up under a video that was not about it, which is the cleanest demand signal a comment corpus gives.
When I first heard Wanna be startin something by Michael Jackson, I thought the lyrics were: The pain is so good. It was years before I realized it was: The pain is thunder. 🎉
George Pell and Michael Jackson were innocent.
Just look at how Disney won't let you watch The Simpsons with Michael Jackson
If you do a top 20, please include Michael Jackson's 1988 memoir "Moonwalk".
Er, Michael Jackson? Or are we still not going there?
This man is a thriller. Such a great talent
Signal scores are percentile-style ranks across the 262 subjects in this run, not absolute measures: a demand of 90 means nine subjects in ten drew less conversation, not that nine viewers in ten want it. Comment counts come from the top-sorted comments sampled under our own cap per video, 13,584 counted of 15,432 collected, so every count on this page is a floor and never a video’s total. A comment or video is matched to this subject by its title, tags and text against an authored alias list, so the subject can be over-counted where an alias is broad and under-counted where the audience uses a name the list does not know. Competitor supply covers the 15 competitor channels collected, not YouTube as a whole, and everything here is a single collection on 2026-08-27: lifts compare windows inside one snapshot, not two runs.