Both are R&B singers with 4 albums each, but whose career is more impressive?

Album Sales:

Alicia Keys:
Songs In A Minor - 12,000,000 WW
The Diary of Alicia Keys - 9,000,000 WW
As I Am - 6,000,000 WW
The Element of Freedom - 4,000,000 WW

Overall: 31 million albums sold.

Beyonce
Dangerously In Love - 11,000,000 WW
B'Day - 7,000,000 WW
I Am... Sasha Fierce - 7,000,000 WW
4 - 2,000,000 WW

Overall: 27 million albums sold.


Grammy Awards
Alicia Keys: 14/27
Beyonce (including Destiny's Child): 16/43

Beyonce by far. What makes her impressive is outside of her album sales and her impact as an artist.

Alicia, of course.

Beyoncé, she's more successful worldwide.

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I agree.

Keys. She sells better than B with 1/2 the promo and 1/2 the starpower

alicia

I can't choose, they are both impressive. Really can't choose.

Alicia Keys. She sells more albums and has more Grammies when both are compared as solo artists. Plus Alicia does it while being somewhat underrated, so she has the one-up.

You just clocked yourself, goodbye

Career is much more than album sales. Beyoncé wins

Beyonce's career...is 1000000000000000000000x bigger than Alicia's

but wtf@ Alicia's sales. I didn't know she sales as much as Bey..

Alicia is some of the most talented artists we have right now... and she's SO underrated. Btw I love B and all of her career, but Alicia won this

Keys >

The fact that Alicia is equally successful with like 1/20th of the media-circus that Beyonce has really speaks for itself.

Album sales is an indicator of success, though.
The fact that Bey does the most and a 1/2 to market her music yet Alicia still sells more is impressive in my opinion.

CAREER WISE.
Definitely Alicia Keys.
She has a bigger hand in her music, the critics like her more, and she sells more.
She is SOLELY about the music while Beyonce seems to want to be more of all around entertainer.

Alicia obviously