LOS ANGELES (Reuters). Thousands of people were shocked to hear that R. Kelly was found guilty of sex trafficking in his trial. He is the highest-profile musician in #MeToo’s history.

Kelly, once one of the biggest selling R&B singers with hits like “I Can Believe I Can Fly,” was convicted on all nine counts after some 25 years of using his fame and wealth to lure underage girls and women for sex.

The MuteRKelly campaign, which was started by two Black women to remove Kelly’s music from the airwaves in 2017, tweeted: “We hope the verdict brings some sense to justice to the brave survivors that came forward.”

Lifetime TV and the producers for the 2019 award-winning documentary, “Surviving R. Kelly”, which featured the harrowing lives of several women, echoed the sentiments.

“We commend the survivors for their bravery in speaking out and sharing their stories. Regardless of what the verdict is, they have opened up important conversations on sexual abuse that needed to happen,” Lifetime and the documentary producers said in a statement.

Kelly’s music can still be streamed on Spotify. Some of his supporters gathered at the Brooklyn court during the trial, cheering lawyers and mocking prosecutors.

They don’t want to see Black men win,” said a tweeter (NYSE:) calling Zapac Zhakur Monday. It was posted under #FreeRKelly.

“They should’ve let the world see the trial I don’t trust any of this I don’t trust any of those women they are all lying,” tweeted another supporter, Samara Central, who complained that the five-week trial was not televised.

His record label RCA dropped Kelly at 54 shortly after the Lifetime documentary aired.

After the broadcast of the documentary, several musicians, including Lady Gaga (Celine Dion) and Chance the Rapper who were previously collaborators with Kelly, offered apologies to him or asked that the recording be removed from streaming services.

Kelly’s music can be heard but not heard in radio stations, although it is available online. Music tracking service MRC data showed that streaming had remained relatively steady from 2017 to 2021 at approximately five to six millions per week.

Billboard published last month that Kelly tried to sell rights to his back catalog, but was unsuccessful.

Merck Mercuriadis (whose Hipgnosis Songs Fund recently purchased the rights to songs by Neil Young and Paul Simon), said that he wasn’t interested in R. Kelly’s catalogue.

We have no interest to the R Kelly catalogue. Mercuriadis released a Monday statement stating that the strong principle of supporting songwriting and its beliefs – women and men alike – is important more than economic opportunity.