you're ridiculous. her fanbase went from like 50,000 facebook fans during the True Romance era to 2.6 million now. you're applying gigantic pop girls standards to her. two years ago she was a critically acclaimed indie artist with an album that completely bombed despite the good word of mouth. she now sang the chorus on a huge, completely ubiquitous #1 hit, had her own solo top 10, did SNL, about a half-dozen award shows, tours worldwide, having other pop girls come to her for hits (Selena, Gwen, etc).
bottom line, she's doing fine. if that's not 'making it', i don't know what is. get your head out of your ass and try being objective.
Chill.
While yeah, she got top 10 and several performances, the public isn't much for her anymore no matter all that.
Karmin they took WAY too long to release their debut album and they were forgotten by then.
lots of newer artists seem to be taking this same path too (Becky G, Austin M., Natalie La Rose, etc), it's like labels are scared to invest in putting out an album even after they've had decent hits, and they've just waited too late for anything substantial to happen
Explain. Do you think she should have merely done another Fever 2.0 instead of Body Language? Body Language was a solid album and a great follow-up to Fever —*she didn't waste a chance at all.
Karmin they took WAY too long to release their debut album and they were forgotten by then.
lots of newer artists seem to be taking this same path too (Becky G, Austin M., Natalie La Rose, etc), it's like labels are scared to invest in putting out an album even after they've had decent hits, and they've just waited too late for anything substantial to happen
Honestly I don't think record labels know how to manage their artists anymore. Almost none are adapting to the changing ways of how music is consumed and distributed.
Bonnie McKee - she pretty much cannibalized her style into Katy Perry
Samantha Jade - poor girl won X Factor but has taken 3 years to release her albim
Cassadee Pope - could have built momentum off of WAAT but didn't
She didn't capitalize on her growing UK fanbase. Stopped promoting anything there after 2011 and stopped making the Dance music they loved.
She didn't utilize the hype Dirty Laundry was building by taking way too long to release the video and no promotion.
She made no use of her X-Factor spot for promotion.
so much talent, so many mistakes 
they took WAY too long to release their debut album and they were forgotten by then.
