Rihanna lacks cultural impact. Bey is the female artist of our generation until Gaga rises back up again. Sure her sales are quite local but her tour proved that they definitely know ha.

Hmm...

I don't think any are as good as Safe & Sound, State of Grace, or Back to December.

Two Black Cadillacs, The House That Built Me, and Gunpowder and Lead are all good though.

Honey I grew up in West Virginia and Country was all there was.
I know what I'm talking about. Very few members here know anything about Country music.

TayLORD is significantly more talented than Karaoke Underwood. Don't know Miranda really well but she's snatching away awards from Karaoke so +1 for her.

She's a lead artist on Lady Marmalade according to Billboard, and a lead on Say Something. Say Something was bigger than anything on Artpop so there's no need to downplay X's success past or present.

Kats definitely knows Country. No doubt about that. Don't you go to school in Nashville too?

See, you needed a lil help but managed to get the concept of the shoot after all

I was going to post this

Why does everyone act like rih has never had a flop single on here

I'm curious about this year's AOTY nominees. Part of me thinks Prism will get one since it's essentially the only eligible album to produce multiple hits, but part of me thinks that she's getting bypassed in favor of acts like The Black Keys, Eminem, Jack White, or Arcade Fire. Then again, Arcade Fire won with their last album and Eminem's album ended up being a bit of a non-event, so maybe Katy will work her way in after all. Beyoncé is the only 'superstar' with a chance of winning, but I think she'll lose to some guy ATRL doesn't give a **** about.

I grew up on country too. My dad likes Austin alternative country and classic cocaine cowboys country

I take that back.
Back to December and State of Grace are up there with some of the best.

She's not a main artist on either of those songs. Maybe she'll get there eventually!

I'll definitely check her out on tour when she has solo success too!

True. Work Bitch > other pop girls' leads.

Yep. Belmont. I lived there for months too before school.

Not just significantly. Infinitely.

http://uproxx.com/gammasquad/2014/06...n-vs-superman/

This is good casting (although I would've preferred Josh Holloway)!

St. Vincent, St. Vincent
Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence
Liars, Mess
Arve Henriksen, Cosmic Creation
Chet Faker, Built On Glass
Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour
Silva, Vista Pro Mar
Quantic, Magnetica
Robyn & Royksopp, Do It Again

This year is so wide open. A lot of decent albums, almost nothing that really sticks out.