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Originally posted by AHemsworth
You seem tense. I'm not speaking for anyone but myself. Aaliyah's popularity, music wise, was declining. It can be seen in her album record sales. FACT. What she was going to do had she not died is irrelevant so it can't be debated. What I know is that when she was alive, before she died, she was selling less then the other girls you all try to pit her against posthumously.
Don't sit here and assume you can disrespect the work and fans of other artists simply because your fave died and you don't expect a clapback. It is what it is. Her death made her more popular then she was when she was a live. Her legacy was inflated.
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Yes, her status was inflated after death. I mean ofcourse but why do people feel the need to make comments like this when they aren't true?
A year before her death Aaliyah had her first #1 on the Hot 100, the first song in history to ever shoot to that position based on airplay alone, no sales. Is this a sign of a decline?
Aaliyah's last album was her highest peaking position ever, #2 and her highest first week debut and the lead single wasn't even a Top 40 hit. Is this a sign of a decline?
You people make it seem as if the album had fallen out of the Top 200 before she died, it had only fallen to #19. She hadn't done much promo at all. One live televised performance and a few interviews. She had so much coming. This woman died working on two music videos at once.
And you say she wasn't selling as much as the other girls well.. "AALIYAH" first week = 187,000. Brandy's "Full Moon" = 155,000. And I am not comparing these women, I love them both but I am just making sure I counter your argument by stating facts. Not to mention Brandy had a Top 10 and Top 20 single at the time of her release, unlike Aaliyah.
Aaliyah was without a doubt on the rise and thats why her death was such a tragedy because everyone saw it for her and we will always wonder "what if"
Just give credit where credit is due. Aaliyah was NOT tanking.
Aaliyah was not one of those ratchet singers. she actually had class and standards. She was also a very well spoken person who just was starting her acting career. She was supposed to play a large role in the upcoming matrix movies and who knows what other movie roles she could have gotten. 
never compare her to those random thots again.
Dafuq?
: people from El Salvador, Argentina, Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile, etc. Not my fault y'all don't know about Selena. hell most of them are kids who didn't know Yuri came before all their faves and Swag clocked them; you take the word of ignorants over people who know?! That's you.