2000: Britney (the naysayers of Brit for this year with a monster selling and visually iconic album are LOLworthy)
2001: Britney
2002: Britney
2003: Xtina
2004: Beyonce
2005: Madonna/Mariah
2006: Shakira
2007: Rihanna
2008: Katy -> Britney
2009: Gaga
2010: Gaga (LOL at people choosing Kesha over Gagz for this year, that's like picking Carly Ray for 2012!)
2011: Gaga -> Adele
2012: Adele/Taylor
2013: Pink -> Miley
2014: So far it's looking like Bey
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Originally posted by atrlster
Complicated and Sk8r Boi were in 2002. I'm With You was the only single that was a bit 2003, so that Beyonce comparison doesn't make sense.
Bad Romance had peaked by Jan 2010. Telephone could have been bigger. Alejandro was not that big. The Meat dress did cause some chatter, but that combined with The FM singles were really not big enough to overpower Katy. There's a reason why those Katy singles all went to #1 and none of the Gaga songs did.
Even if you feel Gaga is #1, it doesn't make sense to act like Katy wasn't even close and that it would be so crazy to consider her the #1 that year  |
Gaga managed have the best selling album of 2010 and sweep the VMAs both in terms of awards and talking-points without even performing. It's the year she got the bulk gross of a $227 million grossing tour and was absolutely everywhere, all over the world.
BR hardly peaked by January, it sold the majority of its copies in 2010 and it wasn't until April that Telephone surpassed it WW (Gaga's second WW number 1 of 2010 compared to Katy's one yet it "could have been bigger") and it spent the first 14 weeks of 2010 in the Top 5 WW and first 18 weeks in the Top 10, most of those at #2 only behind Kesha debuting (she passed her for week 3 of January too).
"Alejandro was not that big" yet outsold every Katy single that year except California Gurls.
Katy was big, she had three #1 singles in the US (1 WW) and was successful with her record at #11 WW for the year, but
genuinely was nothing close to Gaga's level in 2010, sis.
