And every single other artist who's debuted in the last decade?...
Like when will y'all get using Adele to make someone's stats look weak is absolutely stupid because she makes everyone's stats look weak. It's like saying "The Beatles sold more than Britney Spears! "
You know Zayn will probably have no say on the producers thus the quality of music done?
He's a boyband kid with nowhere near Justin Timberlake's leverage at that time.
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Zayn and I are joined by James “Malay” Ho, the 37-year-old producer who’s become his main musical collaborator. Malay has just flown in from L.A. When asked if he’ll pose for a photo, he jokes, “Can you make me lose 30 pounds?”
Zayn’s first recording session after going solo was with Naughty Boy, a British producer with whom he had a public falling-out after a Rae Sremmurd cover they did together leaked in July. (Naughty Boy declined to comment.) In L.A., Zayn first worked with two British brothers, Michael and Anthony Hannides, but things only really clicked when he met Malay. He has a long list of credits for the likes of 50 Cent and John Legend, but is best known for executive producing Frank Ocean’s debut album, Channel Orange. (He’s also working on that album’s follow-up.) It’s Ocean’s sort of confessional, artisanal R&B that Zayn seems to want for himself, offering a return to his roots and the chance to be heralded as a true creative, rather than as an actor playing the part of one. Malay, who prides himself on facilitating an artist’s vision rather than injecting any signature sound, appears to be an ideal collaborator.
Britney fans really live a life in fear, if they're not hiding behind Katy Perry's ****... they're behind Adele's fat rolls... Or whatever they can find tbh nothing surprises me anymore...