Bieber's entire year.

fff

Katy being number 21 on the Billboard top artists chart despite doing nothing

Demi being bigger than Selena

Lady Gaga

That alwayse been the case.

This too.

Me getting to hear sam smith singles! His voice is amazing.

Beck AOTY

Came here to say this!

The best example out there .

Taylor swift BB year end charts
ARTIST AWARDS
#1 Artist of the year
#1 Top female artist
#1 Radio Songs artist
#1 Billboard 200 artist
#1 Billboard 200 album (reds #111)
#1 Digital Songs artist
#1 Digital Albums artist
#1 Social 50 artist
#1 Pop songs artist
#1 AC artist
#1 Adult pop songs artist
#1 Dance airplay artist (idk wtf that is either)
#1 Canadian Hot 100 artist
#1 Canadian album
#2 Hot 100 artist
#4 Streaming SOngs Artist
#12 Catalog albums (RED), #50 FEARLESS
#8 Catalog artist

Basically, in everythingthat happened this year

Selena outdoing Demi Lovato in every aspect possible

Poor Demetria can't outdo her in single sales, US album sales, WW album sales, streams, videos, or anything even with discounts

?

Confident outsold Revival WW despite Revival being discounted.

Katy playing the Super Bowl and breaking US television records.
Katy being the highest earning female celebrity of the year

Rihanna being the highest streamed artist without an album and 3 "flop" singles according to ATRL

George Ezra selling 1 million of his debut album as an alternative artist with a semi hit single (in Europe) and barely any promo

Taylor Swift getting 7 nominations at the Grammy's

Florence + The Machine getting 5 noms at the Grammy's also

The op is asking for talent tho.

Nope. Revival outsold Confident WW according to Mediatraffic's latest update (where Revival is still charting btw unlike Confident) despite Confident being discounted for a long time (Revival was only discounted for Black Friday)

Just one of many example of "talent always wins" this year along with GFY outselling Demi's entire era combined WW, SOL being a top 10 hit unlike any Confident single etc.

Talent always wins

Lady Gaga's magnificent career reinvention is the definition of "Talent wins."