Bigger than Jesus!!!!

There is a lovely story in the Guardian about John Lennon famously saying that the Beatles where bigger then Jesus. But now through google trends we can see that he was absolutely right! (Well for a few days anyway!)

Jesus - blue

Beatles - red

Yes that's right in early September the Beatles where bigger than Jesus!!! So lets say the Beatles have taken the place of Jesus. If that's the case Kanye West must be god, for a short period of time anyway!

Kanye - yellowBut if we look back a little further we can really see who the religious super power we all should be worshipping is:
That's right the green line is the king, sorry now god (whats higher than god?) of pop Michael Jackson! But don't worry Jesus fans its only a blip, as if you look back at the previous 4 years Jesus has a commanding lead with only Kanye West (Sept 05, Sept 07 & Sept 09) and Michael Jackson (June 05 & Mar 09) overtaking his popularity for a short period of time.

Hold on a minute though, if it wasn't for Jacko's death and the Beatles rockband/album re-release that would mean that the only people to be more popular than Jesus in the period of 2005 - present would be Michael Jackson and Kanye West!!! Whats surprising is that Michael Jackson only peaks above the popularity of Jesus, exc his death, twice. While Kanye West has done it 3 times!!!! Kanye has recently come out and said he is the new king of pop which has caused alot of people to call him crazy, but in a way this is a direct mirror of John Lennon causing controversy by saying the Beatles where bigger than Jesus!! As you can see above though Lennon was not crazy, he was right (for a few days!). So therefore according to my newly created 'bigger than Jesus scale' (across the periods of 2005-2009) Kanye West has been bigger than Jesus more times than both the Beatles and Michael Jackson, therefore it could be assumed that Kanye West is not the new king of pop, but new god of pop, proving him right (in a way!).

So what have we learnt from google trends?

If we are talking consistant popularity: Jesus has it!

If we are talking one off search popularity : The Beatles where bigger than Jesus (for a few days), Kanye West (and also Taylor Swift ) where bigger than the Beatles (for a few days) but no one was as big as Michael Jackson. Jacko>Kanye West(Also Taylor Swift)>The Beatles>Jesus.

If we are talking the number of times you have been bigger than Jesus (2005-2009, exc deaths) then Kanye West wins with 3, Michael Jackson comes close with 2 and the Beatles trail with 1, Taylor Swift ties with the Beatles on 1!

Taylor Swift would be nothing without Kanye West.

Theres a whole new scale that can be used when judging popularity: the 'bigger than jesus scale' (I would credit to this to John Lennon but as he's dead I'm sure he wont mind that I take the credit!)

Stats can be made to prove anything!