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Originally posted by Gabegabe
Saying that she's not doing good because it's a Greatest Hits is an excuse and ********.
P!nk had a Greatest Hits and it sold 1 million while her 2 singles went Top 2 in Hot 100, #1 in Pop, #1 in HAC, and Top 5 on Radio songs, and both sold over 3 million.
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You do realize P!nk's greatest hits is an outlier that rarely happens right?
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Xtina's Keeps Getting Better went Top 10 in Hot 100.
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Catch My Breath outsold it. And Kelly's Greatest Hits era so far has been more successful than Christina's.
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Britney's 3 went #1, and My Perrogative & Do Something were Hits internationally being Top 10 in UK and Top 10 WW without US support...
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Britney Spears is a much bigger artist than Kelly.
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And after the DS performances the song wasn't top 100 on itunes while PLU peaked #58 from one and not 2 perfermances. Do yeah DS is more successful than PLU and you'll deal...
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People Like Us only sold 17,000 after the AI performance and didn't chart on the Hot 100 the next week. I'm not denying Dark Side as being more successful, but the momentum from Stronger helped it a ton.
Also, I never said, "She's not doing [well]."
EDIT: As xDiamondx pointed out, Kelly's timing is just off. PLU would have probably smashed if it was on Stronger and released sometime during that era, when dance music was huge—that's why WDKY became so huge. However, pop music is changing drastically and PLU was produced with 2012 in mind. 2013 has had pop ballads, R&B, and more instrumental music like Just Give Me a Reason, Try, The Way, Blurred Lines, Come & Get It, #Beautiful, etc. PLU just doesn't fit and is dated.