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Originally posted by Summertime Love
I won't say it does not count at all but it's very minimalistic when it comes to this type of threads as impact =/= sales. Impact has more to do with the album's influence on the general public and the critics and not the number of charts it topped or the number of copies it sold. To put it simpler, for example a song can be total BS, be a huge hit and nevertheless have no impact and be terribly panned and dragged by the critics.
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Sales = a means for quantifying the amount of the general public who purchased a song = the quantity of the general public influenced by the song = impact
Chart performance = a means for quantifying how much the song got played on the radio and how much it was being purchased = more people hearing the song, more people being aware of the song, more people listening to the song, more people listening to the song years later because it was so huge, more people being influenced by the song = impact.
As I've said before, you don't get to pick-and-choose what 'impact' is when it compliments your favourite but then say it's irrelevant when you're trying to invalidate an artist you don't like.
As for the 'impact being decided by critics' comment - Good Girl Gone Bad is more critically acclaimed than In The Zone, so that argument is invalid,
GGGB is rated 72 on metacritic while
In The Zone is rated 66.
We get it, you don't like Rihanna because you stan so hard for Beyonce, and you're probably a teenager with a lot of built-up hormones so you're taking them out on Rihanna, and that's cool, a lot of teenagers behave like that on the internet. You're hormonal and that's completely natural. That being said, you don't get to dictate what the definition of 'impact' is just so you can try and make it fit your personal, biased opinions. Ok?