Katy is more successful than Rihanna. Katy's first arena tour grossed more than Rihanna's first two, she has 8 #1 singles (upcoming 9) with just 15 singles, while Rihanna needed 40 to get 10 (lead). TD slayed every single Rih era and PRISM went plat in the US in just over 2.5 months and it look Unapologetic something like 8 months to do that.
But remember Rihanna has the most followed instagram account
Ugh. Beyonce was right when she said: All the **** I do is boring
All these record labels boring
It seems that the top of success in music has been reduced to "in the moment" single releases, iTunes & airplay. Ya'll want to live in a world where an artist releases a single 2 months ahead of the album, slaves away on every show imaginable, endorses every product thrown their way, visits every radio station, creates some faux controversy (have a breakdown, get your ass whooped, meditate naked in the forest...), comes outside in ridiculous outfits, has their label pay for a Clear Channel programming deal to ensure radio spins, and settles for a 150-280k opening week.
And if they're really crafty, they even discount their album for $0.99 to sell 1 million copies. But is it all worth it. Why? Because they have a #1 single that sells 3-4 million copies for $0.69 to $1.29?
They don't make any impact, they don't wow onstage, they don't shake things up...but they're famous and get invited to the VMAs! They do what gets them by, and then they run back in the studio to do it all over again 4th quarter next year. Our pop generation!
You want to talk about a comeback? Drop the singles talk and OPEN your eyes!
Well if that's the case why y'all dragging the other pop girls
90sdonna >>>>
Her best music came in the 90s.
We can count 1989 as well, LAP is amazing.
LAP, Erotica, Bedtime Stories, Ray Of Light
What a run of great albums
-Sold at least 10M albums WW (with no more than 2 releases, sorry Navy!)
-Had at least 2 Hot 100 #1s
-Had at least 2 singles that sold 4M digitally
-Had at least 1 UWC All-Time chart entry
-Had at least 1 tour that grossed over $150M
-Was named BB Woman of the Year at least once
-Had at least 1 album that topped 75 on MC