People will pour the "because she has promoted" excuse when all Meghan has done is her job. If an artist releases an effort is because they're willing to promote it unless they're Beyoncé or some other artist who is capable of selling music without doing promo. I am glad Meghan is proving atrl wrong, as usual.
Amen. Being lazy is nothing to be proud of and shouldn't be used as a justification for failure.
So she had bigger hits than Ariana, more consistent promo, has a reputation as an album seller from her last album, released a week earlier and didn't have a big scandal, but her album is only ahead of DW by less than 1K in the US, a country which Ariana "insulted"?
lemme check my bookmark folders 
