4 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

Do you think David Bowie was more successful than Adele, Justin Bieber, Beyoncé, Rihanna & The Weeknd in 2016 ? 

I don't need to think it. The IFPI confirmed it for us. They are the only official third-party source for global stats and charts. So you can keep denying it all you want, it won't change the fact that yes, Bowie was the 2nd most successful artist of 2016, only topped by Drake who was the most streamed artist of that year. So it looks like it is possible to rank high on IFPI's artist chart with mediocre physical sales if only you are enough of a streaming force.

 

 

 

Edited October 27, 20232 yr by Feanor

Anti year end charts (January release)

 

Is this the so called global succes Rihanna fans like to brag about 

Midnights has better global year ends despite being released in the end of October 

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1 minute ago, Raspberries said:

Dragging people willingly purchasing copies of an album when Rihanna had to give out 1 million copies for free in order to fraud a Platinum cert for ANTI just years after nobody wanted to buy Rated R for the price of a stick of gum  

That 1M didn’t contribute towards Billboard and was removed from the RIAA count 😂😂😂

 

Yeah we all know why Taylor sells so many albums. She manipulates her fans into thinking they’ll form a clock if they collect all the random variants or sometimes she uses emotional tactics to sell them “evermore feels lonely at the store”

 

It’s the same people buying the album over and over again. I saw a video of a swiftie taking a cart full of Lover Cd’s home. 

1 minute ago, Axelios said:

Anti year end charts (January release)

 

Is this the so called global succes Rihanna fans like to brag about 

Midnights has better global year ends despite being released in the end of October 

ANTI was #32 on the year end charts in the UK but ended up as her third best selling era in the country. The same goes for a lot of those countries. 

 

 

9 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

Do you think David Bowie was more successful than Adele, Justin Bieber, Beyoncé, Rihanna & The Weeknd in 2016 ? 

I genuinely don’t know who David Bowie is

6 minutes ago, airplane said:

That 1M didn’t contribute towards Billboard and was removed from the RIAA count 😂😂😂

 

Yeah we all know why Taylor sells so many albums. She manipulates her fans into thinking they’ll form a clock if they collect all the random variants or sometimes she uses emotional tactics to sell them “evermore feels lonely at the store”

 

It’s the same people buying the album over and over again. I saw a video of a swiftie taking a cart full of Lover Cd’s home. 

That 1M did not count towards Billboard, but it did count towards a fraudulent Platinum cert on release day until everyone and their mother dragged it  

 

1989: 10M

Fearless: 10M

Red: 7.3M

Taylor Swift: 6.7M

 

Mind you, she had 1 standard version and a Target exclusive deluxe for all of these albums sans Fearless which had a re-release. And her debut wasn't even released outside the USA until 2011  

 

Now compare that with

 

GGGB: 9.1M (with a re-release and eight singles)

Loud: 6.6M

Talk That Talk: 3.8M

Unapologetic: 3.7M

 

 

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4 minutes ago, airplane said:

I genuinely don’t know who David Bowie is

That’s not the flex you think it is sis

Girl all this because they can't accept the poll results they'll be going round in circles forever trying to ease the hurt to their egos throwing random stats

Like it's done and over. Move on damn

8 minutes ago, airplane said:

I genuinely don’t know who David Bowie is

David Bowie is a real artist with classics in his discography not a radio fodder singer like Rihanna. 

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Can y'all throw some votes Taylor's way so the swifties can sleep tonight

 

2 minutes ago, Axelios said:

David Bowie is a real artist with a classic discography not a radio fodder singer like Rihanna. 

would you like to show us your lastfm streams of you streaming this “classic discography”? 

10 minutes ago, airplane said:

ANTI was #32 on the year end charts in the UK but ended up as her third best selling era in the country. The same goes for a lot of those countries. 

 

 

And yet Anti failed to make the UK year in any other year either 

"Top cerified eras" is meaningless if you are comparing albums from different eras of music consumption 

3 minutes ago, Axelios said:

David Bowie is a real artist with classics in his discography

If only taylor had classics in her discography that were known outside of her fanbase

why is this thread still going when the result speaks for itself

 

2 minutes ago, Axelios said:

"Top cerified eras" is meaningless if you are comparing albums from different eras of music consumption 

which is why equivalent album sales exist to account for different eras of music consumption and certifying bodies use them

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Just now, airplane said:

which is why equivalent album sales exist to account for different eras of music consumption

That's not what you were using when saying Anti is the third biggest Rihanna era. Equivalent album sales is what's used in th UK album charts and Anti had a very bad performance there.

9 minutes ago, lonnie said:

Girl all this because they can't accept the poll results they'll be going round in circles forever trying to ease the hurt to their egos throwing random stats

Like it's done and over. Move on damn

Mind you their fave dropped an album a few hours ago

taylor's discography must be boring because she released an album today i believe yet her fans are perched in here, going back and forth over a poll where their fave was defeated by a landslide

Just now, Axelios said:

That's not what you were using when saying Anti is the third biggest Rihanna era.

i literally said anti is her third biggest era in the UK based on certifications (which automatically update btw)

3 minutes ago, sunbathinganimal said:

why is this thread still going when the result speaks for itself

 

Because the swifties are still in denial about the results and so we have to contend with pages upon pages about Anti sales in the U.K. and Rihanna's album sales in Australia in a "who has more classics thread"

 

 

1 minute ago, istan4badgalriri said:

Mind you their fave dropped an album a few hours ago

That's how you know the poor things are hurt by the results. Your fave just dropped an album but you're perched in here instead jumping from one (off-)topic to another trying to get a lick in. How sad

 

5 minutes ago, airplane said:

which is why equivalent album sales exist to account for different eras of music consumption and certifying bodies use them

Saying this knowing ANTI isn't even multiplatinum in the UK after nearly 8 years  

Just now, airplane said:

i literally said anti is her third biggest era in the UK based on certifications (which automatically update btw)

You are combining Anti songs and album cerifications whoch makes the comparison wrong. The album cert already count the tracks streams

Anti is only Platinium in the UK and only reached that milestone in December 2019 

For reference Reputation, Lover and Midnights all achieved 2xPlatinium in a shorter timeframe than Anti 

 

1 minute ago, Raspberries said:

Saying this knowing ANTI isn't even multiplatinum in the UK after nearly 8 years  

and it'll be soon.. i mean it took reputation 5 years to jump from platinum to 2x

6 minutes ago, airplane said:

and it'll be soon.. i mean it took reputation 5 years to jump from platinum to 2x

It took ANTI nearly 4 years to go 1X Platinum and you're attempting to drag reputation for taking 5 years to move double the units?

 

It took Midnights 8 months to go 2X Platinum. It took Lover 4 years. It took reputation 5 years. It took 1989 6 months

 

We are approaching ANTI's eighth anniversary and it is still not 2X Platinum  

Edited October 27, 20232 yr by Raspberries