poll Bigger: Gaga ‘08-‘11, Britney ‘98-‘01, or Taylor ‘20-‘23?

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7 hours ago, BrandNewBrandon said:

We haven't had a peak like Taylor's in the streaming era. The last time a huge peak like this was Gaga in the digital era. And we know older albums have easier charting now since listening at home is now incorporated into the official charts. And since Taylor is having such a huge peak and interest in her name is peaking, of course many people will be streaming her music and therefore her entire catalogue is charting. Someone adds one song of hers to their playlist and it already counts towards the album charts and the single charts. That was impossible before. Add to that the playlists and their respective reach and it all benefits an artist's discography. So yeah, she's charting because she's huge right now. 

 

However, you're the one acting like Gaga's peak was less impressive. But why? Her album was selling (the #1 album of 2010 may I remind you), she had the biggest song with Poker Face and a string of back-to-back smash singles and even had the most watched music video of all time at the time, breaking records left and right in every part of the world and here you are implying it wasn't as impressive because she didn't have multiple albums charting at once but go on and claim in the same breath that Taylor's is more impressive even though she lacks #1 singles in most countries and smash hits. We get it, she has her entire back catalogue charting which is super impressive but she's lacking other factors that Gaga had. Stacking them up against one another and then arguing with stats isn't a cute look.

 

Taylor's got the back catalogue charting, Gaga had the album sales of one album and back-to-back gigantic hits and Britney had the album sales and incredible media coverage. They all had impressive huge peaks. What Gaga lacks, Taylor's got and what Taylor lacks Gaga had. 

 

But in terms of album peaks, Gaga is the winner outside of the US. There's no arguments against that 

Except 1989 sold more than any Gaga albums (unless you stack together TF and TFM, but that wouldn't be ONE album anymore, and the ONE album rule was your own point), that the SIO/BS videos are bigger than any Gaga videos, that the songs are more streamed nowadays, and that the tour was bigger? 

 

Gaga did sell more singles from the The Fame era though I'll give her that. 

 

TFM was humongous obviously, I'm not discussing. But 1989 is just as big, if not bigger. And overall, Taylor is making a much bigger splash in 2023 than Gaga was in 2010.