Originally posted by Drayb Janet, Madonna, Michael, and even Chris Brown say high. They perform much better than Bey if you want to talk about great performers.

Originally posted by Wink SIX of Rihanna albums have yet to top IASF and DIL B'day sold more than SIX of her albums ahh:

Originally posted by Wink SIX of Rihanna albums have yet to top IASF and DIL B'day sold more than SIX of her albums ahh:

Originally posted by Horus Yea right!!!! Just like the 50 million albums Rihanna has sold!!!

Originally posted by Lethal Watch someone say DIL only sold 5M It's sitting pretty at 12M WW whereas Rihs highest seller is at 7M

And her average sales per album are still higher than Beyonce's



More than double albums sold, despite proportions being 2:1

Originally posted by Kisuke http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.ph...94450#20994450 Just stop

Originally posted by ImsoLOUD 7/11 only sold 711 copies

Originally posted by HumanitySector The Navy clocking left and right with receipts leaving them shook Where are your receipts hive? You're gonna call receipts invalid just because you don't like them? You post receipts right in their faces and they answer "No." and "Inflation" just because they don't like them

The 10 Defining Artists of the 2010s


8. Katy Perry
Part of Katy Perry's magnificence is purely mathematical: In the history of the Hot 100, she's one of only two artists to hit No. 1 with five singles from the same album. You're breathing rarified air when Michael Jackson is your only competition. Like all the important stars, she's stylistically restless, but one thing remains constant -- her ear for hooks, which went unmatched in the 2010s.

7. Lady Gaga

If the first half of the 2010s was split in half itself, the first quarter of the decade was undoubtedly defined by the arresting pull of Lady Gaga. The provocative pop superstar rode the momentum of The Fame and The Fame Monster into the new decade and continued dropping wildly imaginative music, visuals, looks and stage shows, all while confidently catering to a devastatingly passionate fan army. Even those who aren't Little Monsters have to appreciate the classic-rock maneuvers of Born This Way, the electro-buzz of ARTPOP's best bangers and the sophisticated vocal stylings of her Tony Bennett duets album, Cheek to Cheek. Gaga can go in any number of directions with her next project, but if there's one thing she proved in the first half of the 2010s, it's to expect the unexpected.

4. Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift's path from country queen to mainstream domination was cleverly plotted and unstoppable. At the same time, her ability to maintain an underdog persona while reigning at the top of pop's pyramid makes most presidential candidates look like bumbling idiots. In an age of polarization, Swift is a unifying force, satisfying old-fashioned notions that artists should use guitars and write their own songs while also churning out modern hit after modern hit. Hate all you want -- at the end of the day, Taylor is just going to shake you off anyway.

3. Adele

eople deride the Grammys' best new artist category for occasionally whiffing on artists who burned bright for only a small amount of time, but the voting committee sure looks smart for handing Adele the trophy over artists like the Jonas Brothers and Duffy in 2009. Back then, Adele was a rising star; with her 2011 sophomore album 21, that star exploded into a mega-selling supernova, a cultural force responsible for instant classics like "Rolling in the Deep," "Someone Like You" and "Set Fire to the Rain," songs that don't sound much like each other but are tied together by the voice of a generation. Adele technically defined only one year of the past five, but that run was so dominant and universally beloved that we are now helplessly waiting for the next one to arrive.

1. Beyonce

What does it mean to define a musical era? For us, it means to bend the universe of the medium toward you, to become the star that every other entity is forced to orbit. In the first half of the 2010s, no artist possessed that amount of control more than Beyonce, who destroyed the rules and wrote new ones on the fly with her 2013 "visual album" Beyonce. Bey toppled the industry's plane by dropping an instant-classic full-length with no prior warning, selling hundreds of thousands of copies within less than a week, redefining her crowd-pleasing sound and putting out over a dozen visuals that kept our jaws squarely on the floor. The release and content of Beyonce would be enough to bolt this author onto this list, but consider all of the other moments Beyonce enjoyed since 2010: the release of 4, perhaps the most underrated R&B of the 2010s; the Mrs. Carter tour and co-headlining stadium stint with her husband, Jay Z; a Super Bowl performance that reunited Destiny's Child, and a show-stopping finale at the 2014 VMAs; and the line "Strong enough to bear the children/Then get back to business," which she followed by… bearing a child, then getting back to business. Nobody's perfect, but Beyonce is just about as flawless as they come -- and in the 2010s, the rest of the music world was simply trying (and failing) to keep up with her.

Rihanna - No answer.

Originally posted by ImsoLOUD I Don't be mad cause my fave keeps winning is.

Originally posted by ImsoLOUD I'm done arguing with the Second Tier Navy. The fact that some of you jobless vaginas can pull Rihanna statistics out of your ass better than the ACTUAL Navy says so much about you. Y'all are more concerned about FFS than you were with Self Titled if you put more focus in maybe you wouldn't be crying in the base about how 7/11 only sold 711 copies Don't be mad cause my fave keeps winning it is not her fault. Maybe help the theif strategize her next gimmick era, maybe this time she can get a hit single and some LOUD numbers.

Originally posted by Fanik using atrl threads m

Originally posted by B'Day You're joking The way her fans go on about her being an 'ICON' I never would've thought...

Originally posted by Wink SIX of Rihanna albums have yet to top IASF and DIL B'day sold more than SIX of her albums ahh:

Originally posted by PULSE. The 10 Defining Artists of the 2010s 8. Katy Perry Part of Katy Perry's magnificence is purely mathematical: In the history of the Hot 100, she's one of only two artists to hit No. 1 with five singles from the same album. You're breathing rarified air when Michael Jackson is your only competition. Like all the important stars, she's stylistically restless, but one thing remains constant -- her ear for hooks, which went unmatched in the 2010s. 7. Lady Gaga If the first half of the 2010s was split in half itself, the first quarter of the decade was undoubtedly defined by the arresting pull of Lady Gaga. The provocative pop superstar rode the momentum of The Fame and The Fame Monster into the new decade and continued dropping wildly imaginative music, visuals, looks and stage shows, all while confidently catering to a devastatingly passionate fan army. Even those who aren't Little Monsters have to appreciate the classic-rock maneuvers of Born This Way, the electro-buzz of ARTPOP's best bangers and the sophisticated vocal stylings of her Tony Bennett duets album, Cheek to Cheek. Gaga can go in any number of directions with her next project, but if there's one thing she proved in the first half of the 2010s, it's to expect the unexpected. 4. Taylor Swift Taylor Swift's path from country queen to mainstream domination was cleverly plotted and unstoppable. At the same time, her ability to maintain an underdog persona while reigning at the top of pop's pyramid makes most presidential candidates look like bumbling idiots. In an age of polarization, Swift is a unifying force, satisfying old-fashioned notions that artists should use guitars and write their own songs while also churning out modern hit after modern hit. Hate all you want -- at the end of the day, Taylor is just going to shake you off anyway. 3. Adele eople deride the Grammys' best new artist category for occasionally whiffing on artists who burned bright for only a small amount of time, but the voting committee sure looks smart for handing Adele the trophy over artists like the Jonas Brothers and Duffy in 2009. Back then, Adele was a rising star; with her 2011 sophomore album 21, that star exploded into a mega-selling supernova, a cultural force responsible for instant classics like "Rolling in the Deep," "Someone Like You" and "Set Fire to the Rain," songs that don't sound much like each other but are tied together by the voice of a generation. Adele technically defined only one year of the past five, but that run was so dominant and universally beloved that we are now helplessly waiting for the next one to arrive. 1. Beyonce What does it mean to define a musical era? For us, it means to bend the universe of the medium toward you, to become the star that every other entity is forced to orbit. In the first half of the 2010s, no artist possessed that amount of control more than Beyonce, who destroyed the rules and wrote new ones on the fly with her 2013 "visual album" Beyonce. Bey toppled the industry's plane by dropping an instant-classic full-length with no prior warning, selling hundreds of thousands of copies within less than a week, redefining her crowd-pleasing sound and putting out over a dozen visuals that kept our jaws squarely on the floor. The release and content of Beyonce would be enough to bolt this author onto this list, but consider all of the other moments Beyonce enjoyed since 2010: the release of 4, perhaps the most underrated R&B of the 2010s; the Mrs. Carter tour and co-headlining stadium stint with her husband, Jay Z; a Super Bowl performance that reunited Destiny's Child, and a show-stopping finale at the 2014 VMAs; and the line "Strong enough to bear the children/Then get back to business," which she followed by… bearing a child, then getting back to business. Nobody's perfect, but Beyonce is just about as flawless as they come -- and in the 2010s, the rest of the music world was simply trying (and failing) to keep up with her. Rihanna - No answer.