Namie-Knowles

The way no one answered this kiii.

Well yes. Music Box Cassette: $10.98 CD: $15.98 Average unit price in 1993: $13.48 For reported sales, the common conservative figure is over 28 million worldwide for Music Box. Some sources claim 30M+, but lets use 28M as the safer base. Estimated gross revenue at 1993 prices 28,000,000 copies × $13.48 = $377,440,000 So, at the average cassette/CD list price, Music Box would gross about: $377.4 million in 1993 dollars. Inflation-adjusted to 2026 Cassette today: about $25.14 CD today: about $36.58 Average today: $30.86 28,000,000 copies × $30.86 = $864,080,000 in 2026 dollars. That's just for one album for one act. If you add up all of the album and single sales and adjust for inflation, this outgrosses even Taylor (even if you include her tours). Taylor would need 172B streams on Spotify to equal one Mariah album in revenue. The money flowed greater back then thus less need for touring. If you add up both tour, single sales, album sales and adjusted for inflation, Mariah made more in 1990s if you compare it Taylor's 2020s touring, sales, and streams. And to address the rest of your argument. A modern album-equivalent unit is an accounting/chart conversion, not a customer handing somebody $15. IFPI explicitly says that streaming, downloads and physical formats are converted into a common global chart figure using economic weighting. Physical sales themselves are actual units; streaming "units" are converted from streams according to a methodology. So an "equivalent album" assembled out of 1,000–3,000+ streams does not magically become the economic equivalent of somebody walking into Tower Records in 1994 and paying $14 for an album. Mariah's 1990s album business generated consumer spending comparable to or greater than the entire Eras Tour after adjusting for inflation. And that is before Mariah's enormous physical-single business. Sony said she had already sold more than 80 million records by Butterfly in 1997. This fact alone generates more revenue than both Taylor's 2020 reported pure sales, touring revenue, and Spotify streams even when you add them all together. Continuing onward. There's also broader industry data backing up my statement that recorded music itself carried considerably more economic weight during the physical era. Congressional Research Service analysis of RIAA data puts U.S. recorded-music revenue at its inflation-adjusted peak of $25.6 billion in 1999, in 2024 dollars. To make my point clearer for anyone reading in comparison, 2024 U.S. recorded-music revenue was $17.7 billion at estimated retail value despite today's vastly larger quantity of music consumption. Overall your "$2.5 billion" rebuttal does not actually answer my argument, because you are taking modern consumption-equivalent units and treating them financially like full-price physical record purchases.

If you count for the sales Mariah had and adjust for inflation as well with how the US dollar was then? Mariah was easily eclipsing Eras Tour several times in raw revenue generated with those mf albums.

Bruh I thought you said in the Gaga thread that you were logging off for good? Wtf

First one to send me hole wins

Lash it.

IM PISSY

Finally Gaga being compared to a woman who is her actual peer rather than one that debuted in music industry 18 years prior and became mainstream 11 years prior. Whew, go Rih!

Oh you ignoring half the statment just to reply. Eat

Wait when did The Dream produce 90% of any Bey or Mariah album like Dr.Luke did Katy? Did they defend him in court against his victim? Hold awn, I aint know this.

The way if this was Beyoncé itd be at 20 pages by now. Kii

Cassette: $10.98 CD: $15.98 Average unit price: $13.48 For reported sales, the common conservative figure is over 28 million worldwide for Music Box. Some sources claim 30M+, but I'll use 28M as the safer base. Estimated gross revenue at 1993 prices 28,000,000 copies × $13.48 = $377,440,000 So, at the average cassette/CD list price, Music Box would gross about: $377.4 million in 1993 dollars. Inflation-adjusted to 2026 Using the inflation-adjusted average price from before: Cassette today: about $25.14 CD today: about $36.58 Average today: $30.86 28,000,000 copies × $30.86 = $864,080,000 That's just for one album for one act. If you add up all of the album and single sales and adjust for inflation, this outgrosses even Taylor (even if you include her tours). Taylor would need 172B streams on Spotify to equal one Mariah album in revenue. The money flowed greater back then thus less need for touring.

How is there mania in a world where monocultural identity has been blown to smithereens?

No. Performative and Toxic Masculinity is not an American derived or specific phenomena.

Two ">" for songwriting yet one for singing, performing, and dancing. Right...right.

Wasn't talking about you boo.

White gays talking about the rap game and what is or isnt corny in rap. Ohhhhhh atrl

An eternity is infinitely longer than 1 trillion years mind you. And 1 trillion is several magnitudes larger than 1 million. OP I think you're not grasping what eternity actually means.

Right. Just say that and move on.

The raceplay'ed dynamic kii. NYC and LA is infamous for this too.

You see how it says established? Having an account that isnt used or used only several times over the course of 20 years isnt established. A user with 1000 post in 2 months wouldn't be established either. You aren't established, you never post, and no one else has an idea of who you are.

Woke has never been real and widespread across humanity. This has never been a thing once in human history. Take off your blinders and WAKE UP.

Whew this was slow. But eat. You can reference what was said all day boo, we know you have access to what's being said. That's why we said it. Your Blackness was never called into question for being a Swiftie though. Whomever told you that lied unfortunately. What was said that you were bestfriends with glitch who is well... And thats what got you the allegations but Rian cleared it up and reported yall arent besties. Join the cord whenever you want I can hand you that invite and you can say what you wish. Hit me up whenever boo.

WAIT A DAMN MIN ***** I THOUGHT YOU WAS SMITTENCAKE. WAIT KIII. YOU RIAN'S FRIEND LMAOOO MY BAD BOO. WRONG PERSON. Ill still give out that invite tho if I can get it. Join us if you want boo.

I gotchu. Lemme send the discord invite hold awn. Lemme get home first. @2ne1k we gon have another one of is joining the cord prob. Gotta see what Ernie think tho. Mf got the invites on lock.