Now let me make one thing clear: I bop to "Drunk in Love" like everyone else
BUT
I wanted to raise some questions and explore some uncertainties about the artiste, entertainer, mother, mogul known as Ms. Beyonce Knowles Carter.
Recently her stans have claimed that Ms. Carter is the biggest star in the world....but I want to discuss how big Beyonce Knowles really is right now, worldwide. Without the assumption that she is the biggest star in the world.
If we look at album sales, the following people outsold her with their last albums: Adele, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Eminem, Bruno Mars, P!nk. Some of these doubled her album sales. If we exclude US and UK sales (huge markets, but only two countries after all), the list becomes exponentially larger, with albums like MDNA and Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball selling more in the entire rest of the globe.
Her touring is impressive, for sure, but that 229M is inflated by the fact that she put out an album, and then did another tour two months later and called it part of the old tour. And stars like Madonna still outgross her by miles.
And then there's the fact that in many countries she played very small arenas and even theatre-sized venues like in Venezuela, where she only played to 4300 people. She was also playing to half empty stadiums in Brazil.
And then there's hits...or her lack of. She has none since 2009. No worldwide, global hits.
How can the "biggest star in the world" get outsold by SO many people, have literally no worldwide hits since two albums ago (this is not shade, it is fact)? The only thing she is above her contemporaries is touring, but that does not make her the biggest star in the world. Otherwise you'd have to agree Bruce is the biggest star in the world, since he has the highest grossing solo tour in recent memory
I'd like to remind ATRL that Forbes Magazine and Time Magazine are US-based publications and the vast majority of their readership resides in the United States. They are American publications, for Americans, and do not represent the entire world. A true global superstar has their fame reflected in statistics, not just in media praise.
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