Really? Tell that to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.

All of the above.

Adele - 21 = 28 million copies

Because she became an overnight pop phenom. who captivated & took the pop world by storm starting with BOMT video. BOMT its era catapulted her to Queen of Teenpop status.

The BOMT era is the key to all her success and all the controversies she caused because she started off with ''with the innocent babydoll image'' and many people didnt want her to deviate from that image. Even though I personally never considered her innocent, I always looked at her as jailbait even back then.

It's not that serious irl, we all sign onto ATRL and act a mess for fun (at least I pray the majority do)

Where's the *because she debuted at the peak of music market industry sales*

We'd need artists' overall detailed sales records to figure this out.

Britney has sold 105 million albums.

Wasn't Mariah promoted as the "white" Whitney until people found out about her background?

BOMT - 28m+
OIDIA - 24m+
Britney - 11m+
ITZ - 10m+

.... etc.

Since 1999 would include all her albums, sis!

Pretty much everything I wanted to say.

Why do you think she was the top female when record sales were at their peak? Why wasn't it someone else?

Who do you think outsold her? Don't you think we could compare receipts?

There aren't any reciepts presented in this thread that would indicate she's the most successful female of this generation (which she isn't)

I don't know. Do you have detailed receipts for Britney (and others)?

The recipes are everywhere sis. Britney Spears is the best selling female act of this century. Fact. Deal with it.

That doesn't change the fact that she's part black... Stop trying to bring race into this! Y'all want racism to go away, and then you go ahead and blame everything on race