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Originally posted by RainDreamer
I think its just really up to the artists and has more to do with their star/selling power. You can't really expect someone of Nicki or Ariana's level to be just a featured artist on a Jessie J song of all people
Edit: The same thing was on that Christina Aguilera& A Great Big World song.
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Nicki features on songs by people less famous than Jessie all the time, and Jessie J is more successful than Ariana (and even Nicki) in most countries, so that can't be the reason. They just decided to all be leads.
It can't be due to it being on Ariana's album either, since there's loads of times where a featured artist had a song on their album even though they weren't the lead.
There's no point in arguing about this anyway. It's just a technicality. There's no equation to work out who's a lead and who's a feature, it's just whoever they decide. Sometimes people like Akon on Just Dance, Aloe Blacc on Wake Me Up, Miley Cyrus on Come Get It Bae, etc. don't even get featured at all.