Love Ariana to death but
What Ariana is doing now is similar to what Gaga was doing back in The Fame and The Fame Monster days. Everyone loved her. She was so cool to like. She was a huge streaming monster (back then Gaga's streaming stats were one of the bests) while slaying streaming she was still slaying SALES, racking top consecutive top 10 hits and #1 songs while the album selling 17m WW. Collecting grammys, Slaying the VMAs, BREAKING RECORDS and going on a uber successful World Tours, topping forbes etc etc I could go on forever
That was Gaga when she was 23-24 AKA Ariana's current age. She was at her peak same with Ariana now. Ariana is at her peak
Now, Lets compare them when Ariana is 8 years in into her career.
Its just not right to compare these 2 successful women cause both of them are in different stages of their career. One is past her humongous peak (Only behind Britney) while Ariana is currently at her peak