Who had the best music era?

[leonagwen]

Michael Jsckson's Thriller era was one of the best eras of all time, so was Prince's Purple Rain era, and Whitney Houston's Body Guard era.Who had the best era of all time? The ones I mentioned or someone else?

[mrmike855]

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation having 7 top 5 songs, Michael Jackson's Bad having 5 number ones, Katy Perry's Teenage Dream having 8 top 5 songs if you count the rerelease. Depends what you mean by the most successful. 

[irice22]

21 and 1989 most recently if you consider album sales, hits, cultural prominence and tour performance.

[owenlovesmusic]

Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream era was huge.
Usher’s Confessions era.
For rap, Puff Daddy’s No Way Out was pretty big and so was T.I.’s Paper Trail.

[filthy]

Drake's scorpion is already one of the biggest looking at top 10 entries

[collegedropout]

I didn't live through them but based on stats and articles you have to go with Thriller.

Bodyguard would be up there as well as she was also a legit movie star in addition to dominating music. She was just lacking on the visual element.

Of the ones I loved through, it's hard to argue against Gaga's debut if the EP is considered a continuation.

One of my favorites, despite not really stacking up to the best ones statistically, would be Mariah's 2005 era.

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

2010s

1.Teenage Dream
2.21
3.1989
4.Divide

[leonagwen]

The Beatles USA invasion in 1964.

[divasummer]

I was told Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" era was and felt huge. I'm a big fan but was very young then.
She had back to back num.1 singles within a week or 2 of each other and then a num.2 for 2 week peaking single shortly there after.
Her label cut the album promo short for the double album and instantly released a duet between she and Barbra Striestand that was to be included on Donna's first GH's album. Donna feels it caused her num.2 peaking single to not reach the top because of it. Her duet with Babs reached num.1 and Donna had 3 num.1 singles in 1 year though.

Whitney's Bodyguard era did feel HUGE when you walked into a music store, turned on the radio, opened a tabloid or turned on any entertainment program.
For a couple of months she had one of the top played songs on radio and with movie promo her music was everywhere. "I Will Always Love You, I'm Every Woman and I Have Nothing" was everywhere for months.
I remember walking into a music stores and seeing multiple people at a time grabbing for the "IWALY" single and then when the SDTK came out. It took off so fast I believe one record store near me sold out.

Celine's "Falling Into You Era" felt pretty big at the time.