itīs good that this thread start to focus more on the international scene, and how well an artist performs globally! + the ability to sell great and evolve with every new album...thatīs what defines a true pop-queen /superstar to me!...christina, brit, madonna, kylie, shakira, mariah, avril and pink....maybe nelly...not only selling alot in US but hardly being recognised outside of US!....(alanis is not a "pop"star to me!)
Well for me She's a great singer and she deserves the title. When I had 5 years old, I saw "Ironic" in a venezuelan channel and I fell in love of her. And well the song was a big hit.
I completely forgot Jennifer Lopez on my top ten list...I am not sure where she would place. It's so hard to list all of them, but we really do have a lot of pop queens these days!
Pieces of Me was a hit in Norway, UK, Australia... Shadow was only in the states and La La only in UK and Australia
Pieces of Me UK: {4}-14-18-22-23-28-35-50-55-74 (good but not the best) Europe: peaked #7 (some success) Global Chart: peaked only #8 (moderate success).
Nobody remembers Pieces of Me. Autobiography flopped hard outside US.
Pieces of Me UK: {4}-14-18-22-23-28-35-50-55-74 (good but not the best) Europe: peaked #7 (some success) Global Chart: peaked only #8 (moderate success).
Nobody remembers Pieces of Me. Autobiography flopped hard outside US.
Well for me She's a great singer and she deserves the title. When I had 5 years old, I saw "Ironic" in a venezuelan channel and I fell in love of her. And well the song was a big hit.
i didnīt say she isnīt a great singer, i aid that i donīt consider her a "pop-star", sheīs singer/songwriter rock/pop
Its a good little rundown , i love it but 2004 wasnt half Britney's year. Toxic was her only hit & that's the year of her downfall.
I think 200d was ashlee's year cos her album sold phenomenally ... it sold 3 million in three months - AMAZING! snl kinda spoilt it but she was huge that year. Bigger than brit at least
btw, the best selling female artist the last 10 years or so is probably the chinese pop-singer wei-wei, she has estimated sales of over 200 million albums, and she sellout stadiums with about 100.000 people!, and she actually lives in stockholm,sweden!
i would say that gwen stefani was the 2004 queen (or was LAMB more in 2005 than 2004, don´t remember)...but i don´t really think britney could be considered the queen of 2004, it´s just a fan point of view IMO...as if i would say that christina was the queen in 1999 or 2000, she wasn´t, but i think she could be the 2003 queen though (best & highest grossing tour, 10 million albums sold, tho it spanned from oct. 2002 to mid 2004, one #1 WW single (6 weeks) and three other sucessful singles), and i mean internationally, in US, it was def. beyonce.
^ yeah i don't rally care who's year 2004 was but all i'm saying is that it damn well wasn't britney's. I love brit and all but its almost making me laugh that people actually think she ruled that year, she was nowhere near amazing that year and it was the year her trailer trash image came to be. A lot of Britney fans just love to exaggerate her so much its crazy