Britney only sold albums and that's because it was the peak of albums.

Gaga sold albums, singles, grossed more than Britney ever did and was much more global.

"...Baby One More Time" sold over 1.5M singles in the U.K. and 2M in the U.S. and its video has over 150M views on VEVO

Gaga did two tours and had two albums stitched together and still did less in album equivalents than Britney

I still haven't seen an explanation as to why Britney couldn't even crack the top 80 () year-end in Japan, or make the decade-end chart in the UK with any of her albums (the two biggest markets after the US), even though her global peak was supposedly bigger than the Mt. Everest?

These are official receipts btw, not fanmade inflated mediatraffic 'receipts'

OT: Gaga by far. Britney was extremely local to North America, although even in the US, she never dominated

Britney's peak was bigger because the industry and the sales climate were bigger. Gaga's was more exciting.

They count imports separately on Oricon's charts. That's why Avril's Let Go missed the top ten of the last decade despite outselling most of the top 5.

It did 1.2M in the U.K.. I'm sure it would've been a lot higher if we combined its sales with OIDIA the way Gaga did her first and second album

Britney.. its not even close

Sorry that excuse won't work

Thriller was #1 on their 1984 year-end chart.
Like A Virgin was #8 on their year-end chart.
Whitney, Cyndi Lauper, Wham, Janet, Mariah, Avril, etc effortlessly made the top 40 best-selling albums, let alone top 80

Meanwhile BOMT and OIDIA couldn't even make the damn top 80

Britney was just local

"Britney 1999-2009"

Britney flopped hard in 2007 and she's been declining since her debut ever since, she never re-peaked.

Top 50 Albums in 2007

Blackout N/A

Meanwhile ARTPOP (biggest flop ever according to ATRL) = 9th best selling album WW in 2013 (IFPI).

Britney's peak
1999-2000

and then she kept declining each year except for that cute bump she had in 2008.

Local yet still her music was more consumed WW than Gaga's. Why?

Slay those IFPI shipments.

A peak is only your most commercially successful era (or, in Gaga's case, two that she put together).

Britney.

Slobro and Bounce, y'all should post more in the Britney base sistrens . You talk about her more than her own stans (which would lead me to believe that you're both closeted stans). Put that obsession to good use gorls

dead at 98-09 dddd

Anyway Gaga

Yes in 08 she got her 1st no1 in the US since Baby

Circus also debuted no1 with 505K (the highest 1st wk sales of 08)

The Circus Tour was her most successful tour to date with 140M (97 shows)

3 debuted no1 in 2009 the 1st non American Idol artist since Lauren Hill and broke all kinds of records.

Britney was still killing it in 08/09

R U mad cause Gaga peaked came and went before she was even over her BTW era?