Yes, because outperforming Britney of all people is impressive nowadays.
I mean his BUZZ songs are still hitting #1 on iTunes while Perfume, Applause, Unconditionally, etc can't say else wise.
An ACOUSTIC version of his album (Believe Acoustic) debuted with 211k copies in JANUARY while this whole year the highest female debut isn't even 280k.
I don't get how the other girls are 'just slipping for one era' but him outperforming them all is still him fading.
I don't see Sevyn Streeter in Metacritic's person database, iTunes's top 10, Kworb's global artist ranking top 375 or the top 20 of HDD's sales predictions this week.