[Tristan]

Taylor ofc

Edit: i'm the 69th voter for the Lord hehe

[M-D-N-A]

I love Taylor but Britney's first 10 years of her career was bigger than any other female artist (except Madonna)

[stevyy]

Britney, because she was global from day 1. Taylor has JUST been discovered by the world.

[theREALslimSHADY]

nnnn when you pick the decade as a whole, Taylor wins by a landslide.
Britney was plummeting after the first 5-6 years, Taylor meanwhile is hitting peak after peak till her last year of the decade.

[stevyy]

Originally posted by M-D-N-A

I love Taylor but Britney's first 10 years of her career was bigger than any other female artist (except Madonna)

Whitney started with a 24m and 22m selling album, had then a 10m seller and a 40m seller (her first 4 albums). She obviously outperformed Britney on all levels.

[Bie]

Originally posted by Miss Korea

The answer is obviously Britney Spears ahhhh. Only the biggest female of her generation

I'm not going to get into album equivalents and all that other **** because I have little grasp of it and I don't give a **** quite frankly! ha ha! What I can tell you is that Taylor doesnt come close to Britney's star power, Britney's celebrity and certainly not Britney's performances. Britney Spears was the premier popstar of the 2000s. Taylor couldn't pull off an early-2000s Britney Spears performance if it meant her life depended on it nnnn. A Britney performance was talked about for days, for weeks, for the rest of the year Only the biggest female of her generation

No one has since (2003-2009~) come close to Britney's media magnitude and monopoly. Britney accounted for over 30% of X17's revenue in 2007 - that's $2.5 million! Splash News had her at $10-15% of their business. A paparazzi photo of Britney in 2007 would gather $100,000 if good enough - $500k for the shaved head photos, $200k for the hot tub photos. Only the biggest female of her generation

Senior editor at Yahoo Vera Chan once said: "If there was no Britney, would all Web traffic stop? I would hesitate to give her that much power, but it's hard to argue with the facts."

Only the biggest female of her generation

Not to mention the $1.5b in perfume sales revenue

Only the biggest female of her generation

She's more than just music

She's about the bling

Only the biggest female of her generation

OT: Britney's debut album outsold your faves' discography yas queen of pop

Why are Taylor fans trying it? We know that Taylor is huge now. Accepting she was not bigger than Britney during their first 10 years won't make her any less of a huge artist. Please be humble

[FBF]

Originally posted by theREALslimSHADY

nnnn when you pick the decade as a whole, Taylor wins by a landslide.
Britney was plummeting after the first 5-6 years, Taylor meanwhile is hitting peak after peak till her last year of the decade.

1999+5 : 2004 : ITZ, Toxic, Everytime, GH : My Prerogative
1999+6 : 2005 : Not active.

What are you even talking about ?

[Dollas n Diamonds]

Originally posted by FBF

Do it with singles too ?

literally be my guest, however I'm going to assume looking at Taylor's biggest single SIO 9M in 2014 compared to Britney's biggest Womanizer 8M in 2008 its only going to widen the gap

 

[M-D-N-A]

Originally posted by stevyy

Whitney started with a 24m and 22m selling album, had then a 10m seller and a 40m seller (her first 4 albums). She obviously outperformed Britney on all levels.

But not the same level of Britney Spears.

Britney is like the 2nd Madonna because we have numerous Britney-wannabe in entire globe.

[FBF]

Originally posted by Dollas n Diamonds

literally be my guest, however I'm going to assume looking at Taylor's biggest single SIO 9M in 2014 compared to Britney's biggest Womanizer 8M in 2008 its only going to widen the gap

You're not afraid of the 6.5M selling BOMT adjusted to the digital era climate ?

[Bie]

How old are majority of Taylor Swift fans? Did they even get to experience how massive Britney was during her peak?

[Miss Korea]

Britney was so big that every record label had a Britney clone out by April 1999 and were churning them out right up until, like, 2002. Britney was the girl to be. Avril's marketing strategy was that she was the "anti-Britney" Britney launched careers

Where are Taylor's clones? And I'm not talking about the skinny white bitch that lives three doors down from you in Iowa, ATRL Poster.

[Dollas n Diamonds]

Originally posted by Miss Korea

Britney was so big that every record label had a Britney clone out by April 1999 and were churning them out right up until, like, 2002. Britney was the girl to be. Avril's marketing strategy was that she was the "anti-Britney" Britney launched careers

Where are Taylor's clones? And I'm not talking about the skinny white bitch that lives three doors down from you in Iowa, ATRL Poster.

taylor wasn't manufactured so she's hard to replicate. her selling point is her words and connection to her audience not everyone can do that

what i mean by that is any hot girl that can dance and coo over a headset can be ' the next britney' every pretty guitar wielding country girl cannot be the 'next Taylor Swift'

[Dingdong123]

Taylor is definitely the bigger artist and the bigger musician

Britney is the bigger celebrity though, like the biggest celebrity of the millenium. She was talked about beyond her music.

[M-D-N-A]

Originally posted by Dollas n Diamonds

taylor wasn't manufactured so she's hard to replicate. her selling point is her words and connection to her audience not everyone can do that

Or because she's so boring that nobody bothered to replicate?

[Smilers]

"Britney was massive during her peak!"

I mean, the question was on the first decade as a whole and Britney's two year peak isn't nearly enough to upset Taylor's amazing consistency and longevity.

But even if we were to only look at JUST the peak, Taylor is still bigger. Assuming Britney's peak is BOMT and Taylor's 1989.

1989 was THE bestselling album of 2014, both domestically and globally, while BOMT was outsold by backstreet boys, Santana and Creed.

At her peak, Taylor had THE biggest tour of the year meanwhile Britney's tour grossed a measly $35 million.

At her peak, Taylor topped the Forbes earning $170 million, a number far beyond her competitors (and not to mention an additional $80 million from 1989's sales alone the year before, placing 8th). Britney failed to make top 10 in both 1999 or 2000.

It's like no contest. No amount of "but you didn't live through Britney's peak!!" is changing that. Actual stats >>> nostalgia

[Dollas n Diamonds]

Originally posted by M-D-N-A

Or because she's so boring that nobody bothered to replicate?

“I never wrote with Taylor thinking that we were going to pitch the song [to another artist]. I always knew that we were writing Taylor songs,” she says. “She really has her own way of saying things. I meet a lot of young girls that think they can be Taylor if I help them out, and I have to say to them, ‘These are Taylor’s words. There was no magic fairy dust around me. Taylor knew how to write a song at 13. So you need to go figure out how to write your song first.'”

straight from the horses mouth

[FBF]

Originally posted by Smilers

"Britney was massive during her peak!"

I mean, the question was on the first decade as a whole and Britney's two year peak isn't nearly enough to upset Taylor's amazing consistency and longevity.

But even if we were to only look at JUST the peak, Taylor is still bigger. Assuming Britney's peak is BOMT and Taylor's 1989.

1989 was THE bestselling album of 2014, both domestically and globally, while BOMT was outsold by backstreet boys, Santana and Creed.

At her peak, Taylor had THE biggest tour of the year meanwhile Britney's tour grossed a measly $35 million.

At her peak, Taylor topped the Forbes earning $170 million, a number far beyond her competitors (and not to mention an additional $80 million from 1989's sales alone the year before, placing 8th). Britney failed to make top 10 in both 1999 or 2000.

It's like no contest. No amount of "but you didn't live through Britney's peak!!" is changing that. Actual stats >>> nostalgia

Adjust both singles (and streams for the kii's BOMT a 1998 song uploaded in 2009 has 225M views, if we go by Dollas failed logic we should compare how streams were in 1998, or 2009 let's be nice, to how they are in 2016 and see how much views BOMT really have hihi) and albums for both and tell us who sold more then. Why are you babbling about their respective competitions ?

[Dollas n Diamonds]

Originally posted by FBF

Adjust both singles (and streams for the kii's BOMT a 1998 song uploaded in 2009 has 225M views, if we go by Dollas failed logic we should compare how streams were in 1998, or 2009 let's be nice, to how they are in 2016 and see how much views BOMT really have hihi) and albums for both and tell us who sold more then. Why are you babbling about their respective competitions ?

why wouldn't you just add the physical singles instead?

[TrieLz]

Originally posted by Dollas n Diamonds

Taylor Swift - 9.9
Fearless - 20.2
Speak Now - 16.86
Red - 19.5
1989 - 34.96
=101.42

...Baby One More Time - 25
Oops!...I Did It Again - 22.44
Britney - 11.99
Into The Zone - 10.16
My Prerogative - 9.38
Blackout -4.65
Circus - 8.53
=92.14

Statistically Taylor was bigger

Overall is not all about sales honey

Where are u during 1999-2004?
Still not born yet?

Britney is everywhere and bigger as a female celeb.
No other popgurl during that day could even match her..
Maybe only beyonce, but bey solo debut on 2003.

Britney career from 1999-2004 alone on par with taylor doing in 2010-2016..

And I love both britney and taylor..


Of course taylor will be bigger than britney if we count more than 10 years...
But if we count first 10 years I'll go with britney by a slight margin.