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Originally posted by stevyy
Mariah Carey started with a 9x platinum, which she then followed with 8 additional albums which have been certified triple platinum or better. Ariana has nothing compared to that, not even remotely close. All that she has is some nice streaming results. But nobody is buying her music - literally. And she is massively benfitting from the novelty act popularity. On the first 5 singles by Mariah, which all became #1 singles, she was the lead artist of all of them and only featured one other - then unknown - artist on the fifth #1 single (Trey Lorenz).
I can understand why Britney is often credited as THE pop princess, she can back that title up with outstanding albums and singles sales and huge pop culture impact. Ariana has had no impact whatsoever yet, and how could she as someone who looks and sounds like the veterean icon she is trying to emulate.
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Stop. Not everyone is going to be/needs to have Mariah's credentials in order to be a force in the music industry. The biggest pop starts today don't even have the success Mariah had back then. No one said Ariana was at her status.
Ariana is just 2 years into her music career and she's already had a lot of success. And if the NYT wants to call her the current princess of pop, so it shall be.
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