poll Bigger at their peak: Britney Spears, Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift?

[Badgalbriel]

"Her album sales are mediocre"

Midnights being 6x platinum in less than a year lol

[Popboi.]

Just now, Badgalbriel said:

"Her album sales are mediocre"

Midnights being 6x platinum in less than a year lol

"No impact", annihilated streams, touring and even cinema "ALL TIME" records at the same time. While her 6th 1 million+ pure sales debut is around the corner.

 

 

[Badgalbriel]

1 minute ago, Popboi. said:

"No impact", annihilated streams, touring and even cinema "ALL TIME" records at the same time. While her 6th 1 million+ pure sales debut is around the corner.

 

 

Not only that, Midnights is about to become one of the fastest female albums do go diamond ever but somehow it has mediocre numbers. 

[Popboi.]

Just now, Badgalbriel said:

Not only that, Midnights is about to become one of the fastest female albums do go diamond ever but somehow it has mediocre numbers. 

B-b-b-but fake streams!!! China!1!!1111!! farms!!!!!11
 

She is reaching Diamond quick without being inflated by BMG Music club sales (a legit industry fraud) 

[EmailMySwift]

9 hours ago, Eternium said:

ATRL is so delusional. Taylor is bombing in a cultural sense and only seems commercially successful because we’re using fake streams to inflate her stats. When you look at pure sales, she had to have two re-releases for a bomb like Midnights to even sell as much as an Aespa mini-album. Her album sales in 2023 are mediocre and she can’t even keep up with Stray Kidz. Let’s not even forget that her last song with cultural impact was a decade ago.

Are you actually a Britney hater trying to get her dragged? I mean there's no other explanation for calling Midnights a "bomb" 

[1989]

13 hours ago, Eternium said:

ATRL is so delusional. Taylor is bombing in a cultural sense and only seems commercially successful because we’re using fake streams to inflate her stats. When you look at pure sales, she had to have two re-releases for a bomb like Midnights to even sell as much as an Aespa mini-album. Her album sales in 2023 are mediocre and she can’t even keep up with Stray Kidz. Let’s not even forget that her last song with cultural impact was a decade ago.

This is the most delusional post I’ve read on ATRL in a while, and that’s saying something. 

[Distantconstellation]

Britneys peak was from 98-01 because by the time her third era came around other girls were already matching her album sales. 

[Headlock]

14 hours ago, Eternium said:

ATRL is so delusional. Taylor is bombing in a cultural sense and only seems commercially successful because we’re using fake streams to inflate her stats. When you look at pure sales, she had to have two re-releases for a bomb like Midnights to even sell as much as an Aespa mini-album. Her album sales in 2023 are mediocre and she can’t even keep up with Stray Kidz. Let’s not even forget that her last song with cultural impact was a decade ago.

[ScubaDive]

In pop music it will always go Britney, Gaga, Taylor because that's the logical progression. All of their careers follow one another 

[Nova_23]

15 hours ago, Eternium said:

ATRL is so delusional. Taylor is bombing in a cultural sense and only seems commercially successful because we’re using fake streams to inflate her stats. When you look at pure sales, she had to have two re-releases for a bomb like Midnights to even sell as much as an Aespa mini-album. Her album sales in 2023 are mediocre and she can’t even keep up with Stray Kidz. Let’s not even forget that her last song with cultural impact was a decade ago.

the level of stupid required to have written this post. 

[Ramirodri]

On 9/1/2023 at 8:53 PM, Redstreak said:

Wouldn’t it be more impressive to be as ubiquitous as Taylor in an era where it *is* easy to avoid things you don’t like? If my corporate overlords give me no choice but to listen to someone back in the early aughts because what determined that was label money, then of course they’ll be hard to escape

yeah, maybe. but memories are not made by effort, and culture is made by memories. 

britney was the image of that 00's society, even if it was not by her sole effort. 

[The Music Industry]

15 hours ago, Eternium said:

ATRL is so delusional. Taylor is bombing in a cultural sense and only seems commercially successful because we’re using fake streams to inflate her stats. When you look at pure sales, she had to have two re-releases for a bomb like Midnights to even sell as much as an Aespa mini-album. Her album sales in 2023 are mediocre and she can’t even keep up with Stray Kidz. Let’s not even forget that her last song with cultural impact was a decade ago.

 

Please learn to troll better 

[The Music Industry]

3 minutes ago, NewStanner said:

That one post about "fake Taylor streams"  I guess her tour numbers are "F-fAkE" too 

The tens of millions grossed so far from her tour movie must also be fake 

[CandleGuy]

On 9/1/2023 at 2:41 PM, EmailMySwift said:

Now you're just picking and choosing what is cultural to benefit your fave. Taylor is beating Marvel and Star Wars at the box office. At her peak and before her tabloid scandals, Britney couldn't even get people to watch her specials on TV. 

 

 

Britney Spears Interview A Ratings Dud For ABC

November 14, 2003 

According to the Drudge Report, Britney Spears’ interview on ABC’s ‘Primetime’ with Diane Sawyer failed to ignite ratings, getting only an 8.1 rating/12 share and falling well behind NBC’s ‘ER’ with a 24 share and CBS’ ‘CSI” with a 29 share.

 

Other specials that scored lackluster ratings were CBS’ “Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” and ABC’s Britney Spears special.

 

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-nov-26-et-tvratingstext26-story.html

 

Over 8 million households tunes in to watch her give a TV interview 

 

And it was considered an underperformance for her 

 

Is it clicking yet??

 

 

 

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[brazil]

Britney created 21st century. Taylor didn't produce a single song that will be remembered in her peak 

[Badgalbriel]

4 minutes ago, brazil said:

Britney created 21st century. Taylor didn't produce a single song that will be remembered in her peak 

As opposed to Britney having a catalogue less consumed then the other girls from her time, uh?

[brazil]

22 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

As opposed to Britney having a catalogue less consumed then the other girls from her time, uh?

Gurl, how many MPGs have a song with over 1B streams from 2003? And what other girls from her time has a more consumed catalogue? Unless you're trying to compare her to the likes of Gaga who actually came out a decade after her 

[Axelios]

12 hours ago, CandleGuy said:

Over 8 million households tunes in to watch her give a TV interview 

 

And it was considered an underperformance for her 

 

Not for her specifically, but for big celebrities interviews in general. The public interest in her is not as big as her tabloid coverage would have you believe

[Axelios]

1 hour ago, brazil said:

Gurl, how many MPGs have a song with over 1B streams from 2003? And what other girls from her time has a more consumed catalogue? Unless you're trying to compare her to the likes of Gaga who actually came out a decade after her 

Beyonce and Shakira for example.

[Aethereal]

23 hours ago, Ramirodri said:

yeah, maybe. but memories are not made by effort, and culture is made by memories. 

britney was the image of that 00's society, even if it was not by her sole effort. 

 

10 hours ago, brazil said:

Britney created 21st century. Taylor didn't produce a single song that will be remembered in her peak 

Were you old enough to remember the 2000s? Britney was probably a more global White Barbie version of 1989 era Taylor Swift. Not that new Madonna that people want to twist.

Her style (music videos, costumes and dancing) was more aesthetical and interesting to the public compared to that of Taylor's and the lack of internet used to give celebrities of the old times inherently a more power image than they have now. That's all.  

[Aethereal]

On 9/1/2023 at 8:42 PM, Saintlor said:

Taylor can eventually pass Britney's pure sales too, right? 

In pure sales as in TEA, there is a shot Taylor can pass Britney there too. 

When converting 3 physical single sales = 1 album sales and 10 digital single song sales = 1 album sales, then Taylor is 10M albums away from Britney. (excluding streaming of course)

[LOTF]

On 9/3/2023 at 3:31 PM, ScubaDive said:

In pop music it will always go Britney, Gaga, Taylor because that's the logical progression. All of their careers follow one another 

🤯

When you put it like that though...

[eleganceislearned]

I love Britney stans so much. Y'all are brave AF,  lmao. 

[Namie-Knowles]

Swifties choosing the one comment they could potentially clock and dog piling on it. Atrl never change.

 

Anyways this answer can't be given. Each of them were in a different era of music. Comparing album sales would be unfair to Taylor and Gaga as they were higher during Britney's era. Comparing streaming and touring numbers would be unfair to Britney and Gaga because they are far higher during modern day. Comparing digital sales and downloads would be unfair to Britney and Taylor as they were higher during Gagas era. I do think that each of these women have an impact and a legacy and did something that many young popstars wish they could attain. 

[EmailMySwift]

11 hours ago, brazil said:

Britney created 21st century. Taylor didn't produce a single song that will be remembered in her peak 

No other fanbase comes up with "receipts" as ludicrous as The Army. 

We've been asking for tangible receipts and so far they've come up with: 

 

-Invented being blonde 

-Invented being the girl next door

-Invented being a friendly blonde 

-Created the 21st century