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Poll: Disappointing digital seller in US
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View Poll Results: Disappointing digital seller in the US
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Lady Gaga
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5.23% |
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Rihanna
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24 |
13.95% |
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Beyonce
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75 |
43.60% |
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Britney Spears
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64 |
37.21% |
Member Since: 6/4/2010
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
But obviously this thread wasn't created on a who has sold more basis, so your logic will need to be expanded to be arguing within it.
Also correction, her collection of digital sellers are not "pretty much" all of which are higher than Britney's. "Single Ladies" is the only song that has sold more than any of Britney's, and I made that note in my original post for her, because that's the go-to for Beyhive in single sales discussions.
"Halo" and "Irreplaceable" are at 3 million straight as of March. After that "Boy" in the 2 million range, "Sweet Dreams" is her only Platinum seller.. after that it's all Gold or less songs. Britney has multiple 2 million and 1 million sellers = consistency, and much more impressive than a moment of superiority, then dwindling to irrelevancy in the department. It's a simple thing to understand.
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Only Single Ladies?
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1,713,000, "Gimme More"
1,770,000, "Piece of Me"
712,000, "Break the Ice"
3,298,000, "Womanizer"
2,966,000, "Circus"
1,255,000, "If U Seek Amy"
510,000, "Radar"
2,225,000, "3"
1,520,000, "Hold It Against Me"
2,638,000, "Till the World Ends"
1,592,000, "I Wanna Go"
200,000, "Criminal"
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Halo, Irre & Boy have outsold the majority of these. And I already know Bey has 2 3 million sellers and a song that's almost 5 million while Britney has neither. No need in refreshing my memory.
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Originally posted by liberalmusiclover
No. Bey was even on Jimmy Fallon performing Countdown. I was like WTF? Bey is on Jimmy Fallon? He usually has upcoming acts. Now David Letterman or Jay Leno, but Bey shocked me on LNJF.
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Again,
all those singles had more promo ALONE than the whole 4 era combined. 
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Is there a source for "Diva"? I also didn't include "BL" since some were upset with "LTWYL" coming into the picture for Rihanna.
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Diva isn't certified, but it's over 1 million if we combine the single and album versions. And BL is Beyonce's song, Shakira is the featured artist.
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Originally posted by JamesBrownsCorpse
Not to mention Beyonce has sold more overall than Britney with less albums as well as the other girls.
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With 3 less albums at that.
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Single Ladies: 4,960,000
Irreplaceable: 3,076,000
Telephone: 3,000,000
Halo 3,020,000
If I Were a Boy: 2,743,471
Sweet Dreams: 1,623,731
Crazy in Love: 1,459,127
Beautiful Liar: 1,214,000
And that's just some of them. 
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Is there a source for "Diva"? I also didn't include "BL" since some were upset with "LTWYL" coming into the picture for Rihanna.
"Check On It" came out almost a year into digital era.
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I meant the peak. 
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Originally posted by JamesBrownsCorpse
The last time I checked everybody up there had a 4x platinum single except Britney.
And since Single Ladies can be certified 5x platinum, that leaves Britney behind even further the other girls.
Not to mention Beyonce has sold more overall than Britney with less albums as well as the other girls.
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Originally posted by Beyond Say
Not CIL & Check on It selling that much when they came out before the digital era.  |
Check On It was released after Pon de Replay and you all claim Rihanna's entire existence has been in the digital era. Oh, and Hollaback Girl was released back in March of that year and was the first million seller.
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Lady Gaga
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Originally posted by castrobabytiger
Britney
But in her defense...she peaked before the digital era so its whatever
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tbh 
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Originally posted by DG1
Incorrect:
Sinlge Ladies - 4.9 million
Irreplaceable - 3.07 million
Halo - 3.0 million
If I Were a Boy - 2.7 million
Sweet Dreams - 1.6 million
Crazy In Love - 1.5 million
Beautiful Liar - 1.2 million
Check On It - 1.1 million
Diva - 1 million
BTINH is pretty close to 1 million.
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I was only aware of BL's sales from this section. 
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Originally posted by Lil Misty
Lady Gaga
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She broke tons of digital records & had the second best selling digital album of all time (maybe even best of all time?) for a while until 21 came from. Even from the last era, she got a 3 million seller & two more 2 million sellers, one of those 2 million sellers being a not-so-much radio smash.
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In regards to the question Beyonce is the least impressive considering. Beyonce has only sold more digitally then Britney has because she has released more music (i.e. singles) within the digital era by comparison. If you look at how many songs Beyonce has released in the digital era you will see she almost doubles Britney in terms of songs released since 2005. It's not because Beyonce is the superior seller that she has sold more. Britney is the more impressive digital seller of the two of them considering all of their singles performances, post 2005.
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Easily Britney from this poll. One 3 million seller and only two over 2 million. She's CLEARLY the weakest seller especially considering she's had the most frontloaded sales of anyone.
However if you take out Bey and Britney(seeing as they debuted a half decade before the first digital sales chart and even more time before digital sales were factored into the Hot 100) then Rihanna falls behind all her contemporaries(GaGa, Katy, Ke$ha) who all have 5 or even 6 million sellers. While she has more overall sales she has MILES more material than anyone on the pop landscape, so its not saying THAT much.
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Where's Xtina? Why is she not on the poll?
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Originally posted by JamesBrownsCorpse
Single Ladies: 4,960,000
Irreplaceable: 3,076,000
Telephone: 3,000,000
Halo 3,020,000
If I Were a Boy: 2,743,471
Sweet Dreams: 1,623,731
Crazy in Love: 1,459,127
Beautiful Liar: 1,214,000
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3.2M for Telephone 
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Originally posted by esteee12
Where's Xtina? Why is she not on the poll?
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I'd go with Britney. As some have already said, compared to the people, the other three have found much more success with several singles than Britney found with any of her singles.
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Originally posted by aaronsmithjune1
Single ladies was the first full r&b song to cross the 4 million mark. :weep: and I think it's the only one?
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Single ladies was the first full r&b song to cross the 4 million mark. :weep: and I think it's the only one?
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It was NOT. Whitney's IWALY >>>>>>>>>
and that was before digital era.
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