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Originally posted by aaronsmithjune1
20 years later:
186M solo records sold
62M group records sold
5 number one's solo singles
4 number one's with the group
20 Grammy's ( hopefully 27 soon)
800M in tour gross
Very unbelievable for an R&B artist tbh..
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And these stats do not even showcase her 3 greatest contributions:
a) Rap-Singing
b) The New Standard of Performing, especially for women.
c) Suprise-Releases in the digital era
I feel like especially b is not pointed out often enough. Bey majorly changed the game with the way she performs. Remember: DC started out during a period in the music industry where everybody who did some kind of choreo was allowed to lipsync. Nobody cared. It wasn't until DC started to incorporate more and more live elements to their performances and Bey with her solo debut in 2003 where people started to criticize lipsyncing again. Why? Because there was a new girl out there who showed everyone in the business that it was possible to sing live and perform at the same time.
Now it's become such a standard when we take a look at how performances are choreographed. Bey really changed the game when it comes to that.