She still remains the only female artist to sell out a stadium tour in the history of Oceania, the one with the best-selling Western album released in the past 2 years in Japan, the one with the best-selling Western album in China in 2011, the one who was able to snatch 4 top 10s with one album in the UK, the one with the Diamond album in Philippines and the list goes on and on and on.
She still remains the only female artist to sell out a stadium tour in the history of Oceania, the one with the best-selling Western album released in the past 2 years in Japan, the one with the best-selling Western album in China in 2011, the one who was able to snatch 4 tops with one album in the UK, the one with the Diamond album in Philippines and the list goes on and on and on.
2nd best selling western album in 2011. Give the Empress her dues. The "Taylor is local" argument is so stale though.
Enough talking about taylor and Katy. Let's talk about actual artists.
OK, we'll stop talking about Rihanna. And we'll talk about Taylor, an actual artist who actually has the ability to make music, not just sing whatever her label gives her.
OK, we'll stop talking about Rihanna. And we'll talk about Taylor, an actual artist who actually has the ability to make music, not just sing whatever her label gives her.
“We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum,” Underwood continues. “I know that I am an exception to this, but I [also] know that if I hadn’t made my place in country music via ‘American Idol,’ I probably could have tried to make it for the rest of my life and never made any progress.”
One working theory is that song content has been a potential factor in the male/female disparity. Women—the theory goes—tend to write and/or choose to record songs with more substance and deeper themes than the “Parking Lot Party”-type songs that are working so well for the male artists right now.
Underwood agrees that that theory has some merit. “I don’t think women can get away with the partying, beer-drinking, hung-over, truck-driving kind of music that a lot of the guys have gotten away with lately,” she says.
[...] In the meantime, Underwood says, expectations remain different for male and female artists. “It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder,” she says. “We’re the ones under the microscope. We’re expected to sound perfect. We’re expected to look perfect all the time. We’re expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps. I don’t know what we all can do to change this. But I do hope it does change. I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much . . . There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!”
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Cuz she needs it.
But yeah to be honest BERNARD physical sales are very decent for polish standards.
