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Originally posted by Timber
I feel like the Janet stans are overexaggerating what Janet was. Her impact caused her to sell the same amount of albums Beyoncé has in a times where Mariah/Celine/Michael/Whitney/Prince and practically anyone could sell monstrous amounts.
Beyoncé is doing it in a time where album sales are minuscule because of singles/piracy. She has the #1 best selling album WW of the year, which would be equivalent to 20M+ during Janet's time.
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Anyone could pull bigger numbers? Everyone you mentioned was in the first tier of sales. Janet was in the second tier. And before her career took a nosedive, Janet's lowest-selling album sold nearly as much as Bey's best-seller, so don't give me that "same amount of albums as Beyoncé in a better timeframe" foolery.
Counting Design of a Decade, Janet had only six significant albums. She took much longer breaks and stretched eras longer than her peers. Madonna had four big albums in the '80s, Janet had two. Mariah had like 9 albums in the '90s and Janet had 3 (counting GH/live albums for both) and yet she was
still the #2 Billboard artist of the decade. Ahead of Madonna, Whitney, Michael, Celine, Prince and the rest.