1. Taylor, obviously

2. Adele

3. Rihanna

4. Beyonce

5, Gaga

Taylor

Beyonce

Rihanna

Adele

Gaga

1. Taylor

-----BARRIER-----

2. Adele

3. Lady Gaga

4. Beyonce 

5. Rihanna

Taylor

Beyoncé

Rihanna

Adele

Gaga

17 minutes ago, Odeon said:

Mental gymnastics like "solo #1" are worthless, as, for example, Beyoncé's latest #1 solo, Break My Soul, is outstreamed everyday by Gaga's Always Remember Us This Way, a non-single that peaked at #41

 

Spotify 08/06

ARUTW — 597,536

 

Break My Soul — 351,550

 

It's also being outstreamed by Beyoncé's latest entry on an IFPI singles list, Lady Gaga's Telephone

 

Spotify 08/06

Telephone — 356,080

 

Break My Soul — 351,550

they are worthless when they don’t play in your favor?

 

Stupid Love  - 69,925 

 

album tracks: 

Heated - 303,895

Alien Superstar - 281,736

America Has A Problem - 242,719 

 

 

no need for Bradley’s $120m marketing budget film only to crash the next era a year later cause lacking solo power is not an issue for Bey even much later into her career than Gaga who everyone seems to agree is ranked last  

 

Edited August 8, 20233 yr by Jjang

Taylor

--barrier--

Beyonce + DC

Rihanna

Adele

Beyonce solo

--barrier--

--barrier--

--barrier--

Gaga

Rihanna’s currently outstreaming all of them sans Taylor by a large margin even though she hasn’t released an album in nearly 8 years, any list that has her below #2 is invalid. 
 

Then if we take into account their achievements outside of music, the conversation becomes interesting. 

Taylor

Rihanna

Adele = Beyonce

Gaga

 

Rihanna would be even higher up if she had been more active in the past 7 years.

4 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

Rihanna’s currently outstreaming all of them sans Taylor by a large margin even though she hasn’t released an album in nearly 8 years, any list that has her below #2 is invalid. 
 

Then if we take into account their achievements outside of music, the conversation becomes interesting. 

Adele and Beyonce are much bigger in terms of touring so it's not that clear cut.

In music, Taylor is bigger than all of them. I would place Beyoncé at #2 simply because she’s a bigger touring force than Rihanna..

 

Outside of music and as an overall celebrity, Rihanna’s hold on the gp is unparalleled and she’s probably the biggest of them all (multiple multi-billion dollar brands, most viewed halftime in history, highly relevant with 8 years of no album etc etc)

Edited August 8, 20233 yr by airplane

for music success

 

Taylor: beatles- mj level. Her own league upon 2000s act so no competition

 

......................................................................

then

 

rihanna - the best gp generic 10 years of career  full of hits you can ask for

adele 

gaga 

beyoncè. 

 

 

Taylor>Beyoncé>Adele>Gaga>Rihanna

Taylor is effortlessly eclipsing Madonna and is on her way to eclipsing MJ and The Beatles. adding her to this list is ridiculous. 

 

a telling metric of their success is their latest albums' opening week: 

 

1. Taylor 1.5 million

2. Adele 839k

3. Beyoncé 332k 

4. Lady Gaga 275k

5. Rihanna 126k

 

quite accurate. 

 

all of them are pop Queens in their own right  

 

 

51 minutes ago, airplane said:

In music, Taylor is bigger than all of them. I would place Beyoncé at #2 simply because she’s a bigger touring force than Rihanna..

 

Outside of music and as an overall celebrity, Rihanna’s hold on the gp is unparalleled and she’s probably the biggest of them all (multiple multi-billion dollar brands, most viewed halftime in history, highly relevant with 8 years of no album etc etc)

There we have it  

Taylor > Bey > Rih > Adele > Gaga

Taylor > Gaga > the other three

why are we excluding touring as part of being "big"? That could easily put Gaga above Rihanna and Adele.

17 minutes ago, OreGuy said:

why are we excluding touring as part of being "big"? That could easily put Gaga above Rihanna and Adele.

Gaga’s not the huge touring force her stans make her out to be lol

 

Definitely not big enough to place her above Rihanna or Adele (let alone easily), at least

1. Taylor

2. Rihanna

3. Adele

4. Beyoncé

5. Gaga

 

 

25 minutes ago, OreGuy said:

why are we excluding touring as part of being "big"? That could easily put Gaga above Rihanna and Adele.

Adele is a touring force too when she tries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Live_2016

Lady

Gaga

Beyoncé

Taylor

 

and Adele for the asexuals 

 

Rihanna is the last and therefore homophobic. 

3 hours ago, Jjang said:

when was their last solo #1 though? 

Yes because Bradley Cooper was the real reason Shallow went number one... and we'll discount the fact Stupid Love debuted top 5 mere months before ROM dropped.

 

Lady Gaga had back to back number ones for both 2019 and 2020 and both songs were on HER albums. These 'bUt iT wAsn'T sOlo" comments are tired and nonsensical.

 

Anyways...

 

1. Taylor

2. Beyonce

3. Rihanna

4. Gaga

5. Adele

 

Adele is such an anomaly in this case... she undoubtedly has the biggest era here but she's a bit of a one trick pony. The others are a lot more versatile and have a lot more cultural capital.

Edited August 8, 20233 yr by Peroxide

Rihanna is the richest so she wins?

Rihanna is the biggest and most important. Adele, Bey and Tay are in between and Gaga is not relevant at all.

3 hours ago, Popboi. said:

Taylor

Rihanna

Beyoncé

Adele

Gaga

Correct answer