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Originally posted by JakeKills
Taylor Swift and Adele are album artists, but they're still in the top 5 best singles-sellers.
I don't understand. Most stans say that artists have to be one or the other.
Someone explain this to me.
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Pop stars usually need successful singles to sell albums, but for certain pop stars having successful singles just doesn't help selling albums. Gaga, Taylor and Adele sell lots of albums compared to singles, then you have the mediocre album sales compared to single sales (Katy, Rihanna, disney stars) and then you have the single artists (Will.I.Am., Flo Rida, Pitbull).
Gaga so close to enter with singles, she sold at least 23 million singles in the past 3 years including Bad Romance since January 2010. Perhaps pre-2010 singles like Poker Face and Just Dance that still went on to sell quite a lot since 2010 make it 25 mil? Poker Face and Just Dance probably sold like 2 mil together in the last 3 years. They're still selling 6k/week right now in the US.