Another nice little indication of Shakira's worldwide superiorness is the fact that Run the World, Bey's newest biggest hit, has a 113 million views since mid-May and was aided by like 10 performances or so. Shakira's most recent worldwide single, Rabiosa, has 114 million views, and the spanish version has 11 million views and they were basically uploaded a month later, and had no support whatsoever chartwise or radio-play wise in the US or Australia or the UK. And it hasn't been performed a single time. So anybody that says Beyoncé - check yo' self!
Shakira has faded in the past 6 years. she hasnt had a hit alone since hips dont lie & that was 8 years ago.
false. and Hips was 6 years ago.
She Wolf (Summer 2009)
#2 Germany
#2 Ireland
#2 Spain
#3 Austria
#3 Italy
#3 Switzerland
#4 France
#4 UK
#5 Belgium
#5 Canada
#5 Hungary
#6 Fnland
#9 Japan
#11 Norday
#11 US
#18 Australia
Loca (Summer 2010)
#1 Belgium
#1 Czech Republic
#1 Greece
#1 Italy
#1 Mexico
#1 Poland
#1 Portugal
#1 Spain
#1 Switzerland
#2 Austria
#2 France
#3 Slovakia
#4 Brazil
#4 Hungary
#6 Germany
#11 Finland
#12 Denmark
#15 Netherlands
Rabiosa (Summer(2012)
#1 Greece
#1 Mexico
#1 Portgual
#1 Spain
#3 Poland
#3 Switzerland
#5 Belgium
#6 Austria
#6 Brazil
#6 France
#6 Italy
#9 Denmark
#12 Slovakia
And thats without Waka Waka that went # in over 30 countries and was even certified in the US, Uk and Australia.
Of course Shaki has struggled in the Englsih speaking countries the past eras but its not like she has never reached success there. She has 3 #1 single in Australia over 2 million records sold. 2 uk #1 singles millions of records sold as well. Whenever Wherever and Hips are both platinum singles there. She Wolf and Waka both went Silver. She has a #1 single in America and has sold 10 million albums there alone and 15 million singles. She still tours and sells out arenas there. And this is AFTER 20 years of career..
How are people thinking WAKA Waka wasnt a huge global smash??? That wasnt 6 years ago, that was last year 2010. Everyone in the globe heard that (not-so great but fun) smash!
Anywho, i love Beyonce and Shakira. . They are genuinely the most kind and humble GLOBAL bitches in the game.
250k came from US sales. 20k from Canada, 20k from Japan. None form UK or OZ. She still sold over 2 million without support from the biggest markets in music.. Thats amazing Most American artist couldn't;t do that.
250k came from US sales. 20k from Canada, 20k from Japan. None form UK or OZ. She still sold over 2 million without support from the biggest markets in music.. Thats amazing Most American artist couldn't;t do that.
Shakira previous spanish album sold like 4 million copies WW so why is it a surprise
250k came from US sales. 20k from Canada, 20k from Japan. None form UK or OZ. She still sold over 2 million without support from the biggest markets in music.. Thats amazing Most American artist couldn't;t do that.
US and UK are the biggest markets, Beyonce wins those two therefore she wins! People love to eliminate the US when talking about a WW discussion, especially on this forum. Beyonce has sold over 140 million records in her career.
Shakira IS NOT from America, therefore her dominating Europe and Latin America should come as no surprise, now if she was winning the USA and UK as well as Latin America then I would vote for her.
But as of I Am...Sasha Fierce and ----> I choose Beyonce.
what are you talking about? she IS from America . and we're talking about WW impact not the biggest markets, if you don't know WW means the entire world beyonce is NO ONE outside the USA.