[Kool_Aid_King]

This is basically a thread asking about which album do you think was the worst follow up.

What I took into consideration:

I took a look at all the pop girls, and seen which album really lacked after a successful previous album. It may be a terrible follow up in terms of sales and/or in terms of content. Some artists are missing from the list (GaGa & Katy) because they lack a bad follow up.



Emotions followed Mariah's golden eponymous album, an album that won her 2 Grammy awards and tons of nominations. This album was still a decent seller, however, in terms of quality, it was a huge drop from the standard of her previous album. It did have it's share of hits, but overall, it was just a boring.



Whitney had huge success in the 80's in terms of album content and singles success. However, the follow up to Whitney's self titled second album, was a disaster. The album may have produced some successful singles, but in terms of the content, it was just plain bad. Arguably Whitney's worst album, thankfully for her sake, she had The Bodyguard as a follow up to bounce back from this catastrophe.



Both commercially and critically, this album was worse than Janet's All for You. This album not only ended Janet's streak of number one albums, but also failed to produce a successful single. It also foreshadowed a downfall in the career of Janet.



Commercially, this album failed to live up to the standards set by Loud. Loud verified Rihanna's superiority over all the other pop girls, and it showed how big she was all around the world. This album may have had her biggest hit, but in terms of sales, it's been a tremendous dud in comparison to Loud. The album is struggling to sell 1 million copies in the US.



After IASF, Beyoncé was seen as a huge worldwide superstar and her status was unrivaled by anyone at the time. IASF became her most successful era selling over 6.5 million copies worldwide. Then she released 4, which although a much better album, failed to get a smash hit single. The album wasn't commercially successful for Beyoncé, despite many considering it to be her best.



An explanation is not needed.



Many Britbots consider this her best album, but in terms of commercial success, it was lacking. It broke Britney's record of having all albums peak @ #1 due to a change up in rules and sold poorly in comparison to ITZ. The singles on the album also were not as successful as the ones released from ITZ.



Nicki Minaj was on her way to making female rap mainstream, and then she releases this. Pink Friday received Positive reception, but PFRR was just mediocre. The album showed Minaj selling out and taking a new pop sound which ultimately failed to catch on and caused her to lose a chunk of her core fanbase.



You guys may not know Duffy, but in England, she had a MASSIVE first album (Rockferry). It was even #1 on the Year end list of 2008 in England and she was loved by them & critics who praised her to death. Then she releases this to mixed reception and flop singles. This album was a TERRIBLE follow up to her previous album both from a commercial & critical standpoint.



Her first album was huge success globally thanks to Bleeding Love & Better in Time. This album, however, could not follow up to the massive success of Spirit. The album was also not very well received by critics. Overall, it was just a dud.



Madonna showed time was doing nothing to stop her career from moving forward when she released to Music. That era showed just how easily she could adjust to current times. And then she releases American Life. Critically worse than Music & Commercially worse than Music, this album was a flop for the Queen of Pop.



Fever was her biggest era commercially. This album may have gotten good reviews, but it completely failed to reach the same level of Global domination Fever got.

Which album do you think was the worst follow up? Take everything mentioned into consideration & choose just one.

[AllThatFuckery]

Roman Reloaded....honestly I had hoped the concept would've stayed through with just rap/hiphop.
RIM & SH <---- I felt she was going in the right direction then she flipped it with starships

[BlaBlaBla]

Who is Britbots? This is so offensive.

It's The Army. (Britney Army is also acceptable)

[Reed]

Nicki's pop sound hasn't failed to catch on. Do you not follow charts? If you're gonna try to shine the album in a bad light then learn something The pop sound has caught on, and that's the problem with the album's performance.

[ElectricFrancis]

Originally posted by Kool_Aid_King

An explanation is not needed.

[Skeleton Boy]

Endlessly

[RatedG²]

Emotions. It's just that bad compared to her first

[jqnetto]

Roman Reloaded.

[Kool_Aid_King]

Originally posted by Reed

Nicki's pop sound hasn't failed to catch on. Do you not follow charts? If you're gonna try to shine the album in a bad light then learn something The pop sound has caught on, and that's the problem with the album's performance.

I was talking about catching on with her core fanbase. She did retain some of her fans, but a lot of them left her, including myself.

The album is flopping WW & in the US. It also has been certified Platinum for a million shipments, but only about 500K copies of the album have been sold. And you said it caught on?

[psychodj]

It pains me to say this, but Roman Reloaded. I love Nicki to death, but she kind of lost me a little with this album. I don't mind the pop, but at least make it good pop and not generic red-one songs. The Hip-Hop songs were good but lacked substance, and there were fillers on the album as well. Some of those songs were not needed. Also, the album sales...compared to PF, this under performed big time. I know she'll eventually go on to sell well, but these sales have just been disappointing so far IMO.

[MusicTalker]

Roman Reloaded.

[ALA]

An explanation is not needed.

I'll say Duffy's 'cause I wasn't feeling most of that album...

[Kitt]

Death at the poll. I always think I'm gonna be the odd woman out before I see the results. Yeah, I vote Nicki
Sure, there's some worse follow-up albums listed... but I haven't listened to every one of them to judge and/or I never gave a **** about that artist. I gave a **** or two about Nicki and she let me down the most compared to the rest

[madonnas]

Echo

[Monroe]

Bionic
Damita Jo
Echo

Those are the worst culprits. Order them how you want but I think these releases pretty much destroyed the careers of their artists. The others were capable of bouncing back pretty quickly with successes. Two of the stars careers remain dormant while the other one has been spiraling to lower depths with each passing release.

[Jabril]

Bionic is actually a good album so I'm gonna go with PF:RR

[Reed]

Originally posted by Kool_Aid_King

I was talking about catching on with her core fanbase. She did retain some of her fans, but a lot of them left her, including myself.

The album is flopping WW & in the US. It also has been certified Platinum for a million shipments, but only about 500K copies of the album have been sold. And you said it caught on?

You said "She took a new pop sound which has failed to catch on." That couldn't be anymore wrong. Starships has outlasted any of her previous singles and her next pop single is shaping up to be just as successful, if its international success is any indication. The album is doing bad because of that. Why are you challenging my authority, child?

[Kool_Aid_King]

I gave my vote to Bionic. That album was all kinds of bad. I couldn't even get through half of the songs.

[mic.hell.e]

Bionic. I hated it and the cover was an immediate turn-off. I knew from the cover it would suck.

[skyler]

Emotions is good follow up to her debut album its not boring