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Originally posted by Navy4Life
Let's start with things Rihanna already snatched her wig:
Media impact-in every way possible (internet, magazine covers, TV interviews)
Fan base-Britney is relevant only for gays and teen girls whereas Rihanna has that and I think she is most accepted pop girl in straight men community (where Britney is not even a pop girl anymore)
Videos-YOUTUBE QUEEN vs. Britney please stop trying to dance in your irrelevant video for your flop song
Singles-we all know about that
Tours-Sold out WW tour vs. set of shows in Vegas
Albums-Rihanna has shorter career and is pretty close to outselling Britney with Britney Jean being a flop
Bye girls
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Huh?
You're joking right? Of all thing to come for Britney, you choose
media impact? Between 1999 - 2008 NO CELEBRITY could take attention away from her. You do know Britney has been photographed more than Princess Diana and her Hollywood Walk of Fame star is the second most visited after Marylin Monroe herself. Your fave Rihanna even implicitly mentioned Britney's media power by saying she "woke up as Britney Spears" in response to her media peak - The Chris Brown beating.
In music, teen girls are a much bigger demographic than straight men so this actually supports Britney.
Britney to MTV was bigger than Rihanna to VEVO. Britney shared her power with no one in those days helping her win the MJ Video Vanguard award while Rihanna gets overshadowed by JB, Gaga and now Katy.
This is comparing careers, Britney's career touring power is bigger than Rihanna's. Adjusted to inflation, Circus outgrossed DWT. And had touring been the same way in the early 00s like now, Oops and DWAD tours would have been huge too - after all, they made it into Billboard's top ten highest grossing lists in 00/01.
Adjusted to the right sales climate, Britney was still ahead of Rihanna in albums by 30 million iirc. Kworb has the receipts.
Yeah the only thing Rihanna has is single sales, but Britney's singes made far more impact. BOMT birthed careers, Oops was an iconic line and Gimme More spawned an iconic line also.
In addition, Britney in her prime could actually give entertaining performances while Rihanna fails to even give one, was a legit iconic sex legend while Rihanna is just an icon in that department, impact, influence etc. Spears has by far the most important and impressive career out of the two.