You all seem to be very confused. The ranking on this chart makes no difference; you have to look at the individual statistics.
Christina, for example, has twice as many #1 singles as #1 albums and her singles have double the chart longevity as her albums. She may be only ranked #10, but judging by that metric, she is clearly much further in the "singles artist" column.
You all seem to be very confused. The ranking on this chart makes no difference; you have to look at the individual statistics.
Christina, for example, has twice as many #1 singles as #1 albums and her singles have double the chart longevity as her albums. She may be only ranked #10, but judging by that metric, she is clearly much further in the "singles artist" column.
In other words, Kelly's singles are slightly more successful than her albums. I'll take it.
Don't forget that this is about longevity. If we are talking about sales than Kelly her singles are a lot more successful than her albums. Kelly has sold 23 million albums and 40 million singles worldwide. But when it comes to longevity, her albums have done almost equally as well as her singles.
Yes. JL, for unknown reasons decided to add these two factors together for an overall total. The realistic ranking will come when we break it down to its individual components.
But even still with older artists like Madonna, Mariah, Kylie, even Britney, etc The longevity ranking isn't until after 2003. Mariah's most longevous album was before 2003 as was Madonna's and Britney's.
great work though. 
Longevity is the key to her success. Get it. Too bad Thankful wasn't counted.
