I’m talking about high album sales, multiple Hot 100 #1s, a Grammy win, a successful tour, acclaim, radio hits, a BB200 #1, etc.

 

Xtina had alllllllllllll of that and more at her peak. Anyone else?

Adele's 21 and 25 

sour

The Fame Monster

1989

Even though it sold slightly less than Music Box, Daydream is this for me. All-time great vocals, acclaimed album, 8 Grammy nominations, small but record-setting tour, 3 #1 songs that charted at #1 for half a year in total, some iconic visuals, enormous musical impact, 20 million pure sold, successful TV concert special, a week with 770k albums sold

Edited May 23, 20224 yr by suburbannature

Dangerously In Love

B'Day

IASF

True Blue

✅best selling female album of the 80s

✅ Three #1 hits in the US AND UK, along with Five top-5 hits (plus the Who’s That Girl singles went #1 AND No.2 on the H100)

✅5 weeks at No. 1 on the BB200

✅La Isla Bonita has become a cross-generational hit, approaching 600M views on YouTube despite being blocked for a good period of the ‘10s

✅Papa Don’t Preach was nominated for a Grammy, I think?

✅Stadium Tour, even though it was barely her 2nd tour

✅Won the Video Vanguard award, only 3 years into her career and 4 years before MJ

✅Iconic looks with her short hair and leather jacket

✅No.2 on the Top Artist Year End Chart for 1986, despite True Blue having less than half a year on the charts. Was No.1 on the 1987 Year End charts for the Singles Artist of the Year

Teenage Dream

Rhythm Nation 1814

Runaway Horses

Jagged Little Pill

Pieces of You

Let Go

M!ssunderstood

Breakaway

Electra Heart

Title

I AM SASHA FIERCE 

 

Plus she was slaying the Forbes list and VMAs.

1989.

 

- Year's best-selling album

- One of the most acclaimed and influential pop albums of the century

- 3 #1 smash hits + 2 iconic and memorable top 10 songs

- 3 Grammy wins including AOTY

- A $250M grossing tour that sold out stadiums

 

As said by CEO of Ticketmaster, Taylor's 2015 was comparable to Elvis's 1956, The Beatles' 1964 and MJ's 1983.

27 minutes ago, XtianB said:

Teenage Dream

Acclaim is listed right there in the first post.

1989, I Am…Sasha Fierce, 21 

1984

1 hour ago, nsst said:

thank u next

It doesn’t have the Grammy win tho , in my heart it does tho 

Born This Way  Edge of Glory was #1 in our hearts 

Teenage Dream >>>>> 

 

 6 iconic #1s  singles, immaculate videos , live performances , awards , and still Top 200 after 12 years  

surprisingly not DiL or IASF... but B'Day 

 

let's review your qualifications

 

✅ high album sales

- 8 Million sales sold worldwide as of 2013 when will this ***** update 

 

✅ multiple Hot 100 #1s

- Check On It (#1 for 5 Weeks)

- Irreplaceable (#1 for 10 Weeks)

 

✅ Grammy win

- at the 49th Grammy's it was Nominated for 5 grammy's and ended up taking home Best Contemporary R&B Album, the next year it got 2 more nominations.

 

✅ a successful tour

- The Beyoncé Experience grossed $90 Million

 

✅ acclaim

- Beyonce's albums have always been acclaimed, its a given at this point

 

✅ radio hits

- Both Check on It and Irreplaceable broke the record for radioplay, both peaking at over 200 Million audience impressions

 

✅ a BB200 #1

- Debuted at #1 with 541,000 sales

 

the only reason im not counting DiL is because of no real "successful" tour at least not a big one, and as for IASF even though it has some of Bey's biggest hits ever it only got one #1 with Single Ladies, which stayed at the top for just 4 weeks.

Breakaway

 

No #1 hits, but you would think that multiple of the singles would have been. 12 million albums sold. 4 Top 10s. Shifted the music industry.

 

Plus, even the pretentious Pitchfork recently gave it the acclaim it deserves. 

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kelly-clarkson-breakaway/

1989 

multiple Hot 100 #1s, a Grammy win, a successful tour, acclaim, radio hits, a BB200 #1

 

• Christina Aguilera (Genie In a Bottle, What a Girl Wants, Come On Over Baby)
• Dangerously In Love (Crazy In Love, Baby Boy)
• 21 (Rolling In the Deep, Someone Like You, Set Fire to the Rain)
• 1989 (Shake It Off, Blank Space, Bad Blood)
• Invasion of Privacy (Bodak Yellow, I Like It)
• SOUR (drivers license, good 4 u)

That's all I could think of to fit the criteria fairly, it is actually not a big list.

1989

1989

 

- three #1 singles on US Billboard Hot 100 (SIO, BS, BB), another two top 10 singles (Style, WD)

- the first five singles reached number one on radio charts

- five multi-platinum singles, including two diamond singles (SIO, BS)

- 1 million copies sold on its first week, the best-selling album of 2014 in just two months

- spent over a year in the top 10 of US Billboard 200 chart, still charting in 2022

- won three Grammys, including her second AOTY

- won VMA Video of the Year (BB) and BFVOT (BS)

- The 1989 World Tour grossed over $250 million and dates include sold out stadiums

 

So, basically, 1989 checked all metrics: chart success, sales, acclaim, AND touring.

3 hours ago, nsst said:

thank u next

Zero album sales and zero grammys.

 

OT: 1989, It dominated all the things mentioned in OP.