Now let's get real, there are flops and there are artistic albums.
Flops are albums created to sell, with pop music or dance music or radio hits, that still ended up flopping... Lotus and Bionic comes to mind, Jackie for RnB, CB's latest effort, Demi's, Kesha's, etc.
Then there are albums that even though they are released by previously huge pop stars, are so non radio friendly that it makes no sense to label them flop since they were not created to sell in the first place. Anti, Artpop, Ultraviolence come to mind.
Now , you can say ARTPOP was trash ( I did not like it) or ANTI is trash or Ultraviolnece is trash, but you can't judge them based on the previous sales of these ladies because they decided to go alternative and they are clearly happy with it.
I wish ATRL would understand that sales are just a minor part of enjoying music, you see gerls killing themselves to shade others when they are just showing how shallow and clueless they are about life and just doing a good job and believing in what you do. These girls are worth up to hundreds millions of dollars, if they wanted to smash they would have released radio friendly music, but they did not because they just did not feel that music represented them anymore.
Peace and Love