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Poll: Is Taylor already bigger than Brittney?
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Yes
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No
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by JEWRJEWR
She has to sell 30 million copies in 1 album like britney did first
so no
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Just to make clear, people don't have to sell the same amount as Britney (especially in this day and age) to be bigger than Britney.
But to answer the OP: no Taylor is not.
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Yes.
People will run in here and try to say no, because of Britney's initial receipts. But don't forget that Taylor is thriving and pushing multiple platinum albums (and opening with 1 million in sales) in a time when the industry as a whole is suffering. Taylor's receipts are very impressive and I'm sure some statistician could prove her selling power is bigger than britneys.
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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Originally posted by KareBear
Yes Taylor already impacts both the young and old generations. Young teens don't even know who Britney is today. People over 50 don't even care about her. Meanwhile you have people in elderly homes bopping to shake it off
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Making a catchy pop song that gets some play in elderly homes (probably not the resident's idea to play it) is not the same as impacting a generation. And can you provide a receipt that says that teens don't know who BRITNEY SPEARS is? Or are you being hyperbolic?
There is very little tangible impact from Taylor's career. Simply put, she is phenomenally successful but that's it. There is no Taylor 2.0. Not even Taylor 3.0, 4.0 or 5.0 as there was with Britney. And this is not due to the inability to find someone like Taylor. The Taylor mould is not especially complicated, it's just that it's not interesting enough to create an impact, and her style is not distinct enough for others to mimic it. Rather, her style mimics other styles.
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Originally posted by swissman
No. She is HUGELY popular but she was and is not a cultural phenomenon in the way that Britney was. People only care about Taylor's personal life because she sings about it and it involves other celebrities. People were watching Britney's every move, not to mention she was the benchmark for popstars for a long time. Taylor is simply making pop music and has a big fan base. There's a lot she's lacking in comparing her to Britney.
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Thanks for not being bias and saying yes just because you stan for Beyonce =]
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Taylor has been bigger than Britney Spears for more than 10 years.
Evidence - even a hat doesn't help her.
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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Originally posted by PopNStuff
Yes.
People will run in here and try to say no, because of Britney's initial receipts. But don't forget that Taylor is thriving and pushing multiple platinum albums (and opening with 1 million in sales) in a time when the industry as a whole is suffering. Taylor's receipts are very impressive and I'm sure some statistician could prove her selling power is bigger than britneys.
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We should also keep in mind that if social media was as popular in 1999-2007 as it is today, there would be a way greater impact of Britney on it than there is of Taylor now.
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Originally posted by Eternium
Nobody is denying that she's currently bigger. However, her overall career is nowhere near Britney's.
Btw, it's nice to see you back. I thought you had gone for good after J. Lo canceled that Vegas residency you said would do better than Britney's. Welcome back!
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Originally posted by PopNStuff
Yes.
People will run in here and try to say no, because of Britney's initial receipts. But don't forget that Taylor is thriving and pushing multiple platinum albums (and opening with 1 million in sales) in a time when the industry as a whole is suffering. Taylor's receipts are very impressive and I'm sure some statistician could prove her selling power is bigger than britneys.
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Michael Buble also sells a lot of albums. You're star isn't limited to selling albums only. Beyonce in 2013 was the biggest star in the world with no album out until the end of the year. However, even with that argument Britney's peak albums are bigger than any of Taylor's. Eminem's Recovery did 10 million, a bit more than her biggest and he wasn't a phenomenon then even though he was huge. Britney's BOMT outsold Eminem's 2000 album by a bit and Oops did around the same. He was a phenomenon then. That difference in Em's starpower between 2000 and 2010 is also the difference between B and T's.
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Originally posted by KareBear
Yes Taylor already impacts both the young and old generations. Young teens don't even know who Britney is today. People over 50 don't even care about her. Meanwhile you have people in elderly homes bopping to shake it off
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If you're interested in anecdotal receipts, I can show you some on other non Britney forums that young teens know who she is even pre-teens. I mean, 00s kids these days seem to be sort of obsessed with things that make a 90s kids and Britney's a token of the 90s.
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Originally posted by Lucyyyyyyyyy
Thanks for not being bias and saying yes just because you stan for Beyonce =]
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lol thanks but no thanks necessary though.
It seems normal to me to have an opinion based on what you think, and not on stan-politics.
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Lol no, don't let her front loaded success fool you.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by PopNStuff
Yes.
People will run in here and try to say no, because of Britney's initial receipts. But don't forget that Taylor is thriving and pushing multiple platinum albums (and opening with 1 million in sales) in a time when the industry as a whole is suffering. Taylor's receipts are very impressive and I'm sure some statistician could prove her selling power is bigger than britneys.
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Sis, we have sales/SEAs/TEAs to compare them (made by actual music industry statisticians) and Britney is almost double where Taylor is. There is literally 0 competition and there won't be for another 15-20 years at this rate.
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Britney's "impact" is mostly nostalgia and limited to people born in the 90s and earlier. She is a non factor now. The biggest thing she's known for unfortunately is her breakdown. If you ask any teen and younger now they probably cant name 1 Britney song. Everyone else,even from Britney's generation, only like Baby One More Time and Oops..I Did it Again. The rest of her discography is completely irrelevant. Go to the streets now and there's a plethora of Taylor songs people will know. Britney's time is long over.. #Hatersgonnahate
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Member Since: 6/13/2012
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No.
Commercial success=easily Britney
Iconic performances=Britney
Impact/influence=Britney
The swifter mops or whatever they call themselves need to stop with the delusions. Taylor will never reach Britney's pinnacle.
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Member Since: 4/23/2012
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Originally posted by Eternium
Nobody is denying that she's currently bigger. However, her overall career is nowhere near Britney's.
Btw, it's nice to see you back. I thought you had gone for good after J. Lo canceled that Vegas residency you said would do better than Britney's. Welcome back!
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Britney's peak lasted like 2 years. Taylor has yet to peak. And she has 7 Grammys. She wins. No one cares about how many albums Britney sold or how many BOP teen magazines she covered back in 1999
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Originally posted by KareBear
Britney's "impact" is mostly nostalgia and limited to people born in the 90s and earlier. She is a non factor now. The biggest thing she's known for unfortunately is her breakdown. If you ask any teen and younger now they probably cant name 1 Britney song. Everyone else,even from Britney's generation, only like Baby One More Time and Oops..I Did it Again. The rest of her discography is completely irrelevant. Go to the streets now and there's a plethora of Taylor songs people will know. Britney's time is long over.. #Hatersgonnahate
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Britney's greatest hits has incrediblye catalogue sales and I seem to remember your fave performing some of those forgotten hits like "Lucky" on the Speak Now Tour.
Britney actually had clones like Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Miley Cyrus, etc., had non-U.S. clones like BoA, Anastacia, etc. and even had a counter-culture consisting of anti-Britneys like Avril Lavigne, P!nk, Willa Ford, etc. And that's just scratching the surface
Taylor is great but her songs aren't nearly as big and she is definitely not as globally known. Don't make me post non-U.S. stats because I genuinely have loved Taylor since "Tim McGraw."
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Originally posted by Eternium
Britney has sold 97M albums/TEAs/SEAs and is the biggest female artist of her generation.
Taylor is around 51M albums/TEAs/SEAs and is the second biggest female artist of her generation (behind only Rihanna).
Britney is considerably bigger.
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TEA (album sales + downloads/10) during Britney's peak (obviously there were no downloads then):
Year - TEA
1999 - 3,183,000,000
2000 - 3,112,000,000
2001 - 2,908,000,000
During Taylor's peak:
2012 - 1,291,700,000
2013 - 1,197,600,000
2014 - 1,066,500,000
As usual, your comparisons heavily favor Britney (by three times in this case).
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Yes
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ATRL getting it right for once
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Call me when she gets a diamond album in the US.
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