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Originally posted by MrPeanut
Yah but if she's more comparable to Alicia why does Bey put up such consistently impressive tour numbers while Alicia's have always given a touch of the tragic in comparison? What's the difference there? She doesn't fit that mold in any exact sense, either.
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She's comparable to Alicia Keys for the reasons I stated before. We all know that touring =/= selling albums, so I'm not even sure where you're going with this. It's irrelevant to the point I'm making. Beyonce is more of a "star" than Alicia Keys that she can pull significantly bigger tour numbers, but if there was anyone with a similar bridging of contemporary R&B/soul and pop music, it's Alicia Keys (and Usher). If you look at their sales trajectories, they are more reminiscent to each other than Beyonce is to any of those purely pop acts.
I'm talking about selling albums and the reasons for why
4 performed better than those albums first week without garnering a major pop hit. It's the same thing I talked about when
The Element of Freedom underperformed and didn't produced a "No One," "If I Ain't Got You" or "Fallin."