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Originally posted by Johnny Cash
Sales>Chart positions
Im Real was a #1 because of payola and discounts.
Jen has sold 35 million albums, if you wanna bring records Shakira has sold 120 million records.
I see that you didn't mention any of those other "factors" for someone to be named powerful. Shakira has done so much charity work that she doesn't have as much money as she would have and she still has a lot. In 2007 alone she donated $45 million to earthquake victims.
Btw Shakira tours because she has successful music, not the other way around.
Jlo's albums are panned by critics and don't have much commerial success specially outside the US.
Shakira's albums have critical acclaim to the point where she has the highest score average on Metacritic and her albums are extremely successful. Shakira wins(again)
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Sales are only important when you benefit from them. This is not the case for shakira, people consider her a hasbeen in the biggest music market even if she's sold ok with 1 or 2 singles there n the last few years, this is for a reason and she jumped on Rihanna for a reason but yet she still fails to recover there though. I mean your fave tried both pitbull and rihanna and still cannot make it through the top 10 since 8 years now
No matter how IR became a success, you are acting like if IR was the only #1 single for Jlo when she has in total 4 #1s and 2 #1 albums above your fave.
Go to forbes and check what are the factors that make someone most poweful celeb, but anyway you know how hard it is for your fave to even make the top 10 list let alone top the list like jlo did.
Also no matter how many money she spends on charity, they would still count it. Jlo does the exast same thing and yet she's become the richest Latin artist with no struggle, even before her 1st and last successful tour, I mean based on almost 0 tour and that basically means less sales than Shakira.
Now Jen if she wanted to have more tours she would easily do that especially during her peak to boost her sales, not because she didn't have a successful career lol. It's because she's been a true triple threat, she's had a successful movie and music career, something your fave tried and failed to do. However jen is still seen with more number one singles and albums than your fave not only in the US but ww.
Who cares about critical acclaim when you have one of the most successful careers? And you're talking about your fave getting crtical acclaim like she's Adele type of singers or something.
At the end of the day what matters is how much you've made through your career existence, and everybody know JLo aka the richest Latin artist is way richer than your fave. That basically means she's the bigger force overall. Let's not even talk their net worth, I mean the fact she's a true triple threat alone...
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Originally posted by JLO_FeEN
Because my fave is also on a popular singing competition show that actually benefits her career and the same cannot be said about your fave? Girl stop.
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Drag ha.
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Originally posted by man*****
Why are there two of the same threads jlo vs Shakira?
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They're different, this one is about their era, the other one which one is more iconic, JLo won the more iconic one.