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The US still accounts for a major portion of the overall data contributing to the Global 200 because a premium stream or paid sale in the #1 musical market generates significantly more revenue for the artists and label compared to ad supported streams in territories with devalued ad rates. Like I said, Abracadabra is an absolute sore thumb on that list. What's more is that its average performance wasn't isolated. It performed middlingly at best across Japan, Canada, S. Korea and Australia, the rest of the most heavily weighted and lucrative markets on IFPI. It's truly heartbreaking that Lithuania hasn't been added to that elite list of revenue giants yet. Maybe in the future

The Global 200 is easily manipulated by passive, free tier streams in countries with hyper-inflated user counts but low monetary value. The US is still the largest market, and therefore, the Hot 100 is still the industry standard. You may dislike it, but it doesn't change the facts. Even if we look exclusively at the Global 200, Choosin' Texas (#2, 50 WOC*) and the vast majority of these songs are comfortably bigger than Abracadabra.

Does your map of "the world" somehow omit the literal largest, highest revenue generating IFPI music market on the planet? I'm confused, how would that work?

Who is this?

And how exactly are those free Youtube streams that hold zero weight on Billboard going to close the 5.4 million gap in RIAA units between the two? Let's stay on topic sis. Sad Pretty Girl - 485,000 first week with a #1 peak for 2 weeks HMHAS - 339,000 first week with a #2 peak

Billboard 200 (10/11) #33. The Tortured Poets Department (9.4M RIAA units) #85. HMHAS (4M RIAA units) Based on RIAA units and Billboard both are astronomically bigger than the #2 peaking album, and by a comfortable margin at that. It's OK though, she'll always have Spotify. OP: Sad Girl or whatever is bigger than the #2 album.

The one that went #1 and spawned a #1 single is bigger by default. Hit Me Hard and Soft's supposed success completely vanishes the second you step outside of Spotify

Kelly Clarkson has more multiweek solo #1s than La Dy Ga Ga. Why?

Can the OP list each of their Hot 100 peaks for reference? Surely all of these singles comfortably cleared the Top 10, right? There couldn't possibly be any sore thumbs on that list..... right?

The "critically acclaimed" album in question having a lower Metacritic score than at least 5 Taylor projects released this decade and average YE placements. The bar is always in the abyss for Ga Ga. No matter the metric, she always loses the second her own success is brought into question. Have fun stanning Olivia Rodrigo.

OTHs really have no shame, huh? (No shade to these girls, I'm sure they're lovely) TRALALA Spotify: #1 Turkey #38 Worldwide YouTube: #1 Turkey

A Juicy J award accompanied by the biggest critical & box office bomb of the 21st century that somehow ALSO spawned the worst-performing soundtrack by a pop girl in recent memory is certainly an unprecedented achievement. Only to top it off with the worst-performing lead single by a pop girl in recent memory bar Katy Perry. Ga Ga's ability to outdo herself never fails to amaze me. No wonder your fandom insists on those comparisons. Over here, we absolutely fine with another historic multiweek Hot 100 solo #1 single. Watching Taylor collect 16 different #1s in the time it's taken Ga Ga to achieve a grand total of zero solo chart-toppers since 2011 must be something. I can (almost) understand the coping.

Oh dear, we're right back to clutching the Juicy J lifetime achievement award card, as if that somehow makes up for the fact that Ga ga still possesses exactly zero General Field Grammys or Album of the Year wins, accolades that are actually becoming of a musician and artist. You must be operating in some distorted parallel universe where Abracadabra is a towering Billboard Top 10 single and isn't currently suffering the absolute indignity of getting outstreamed daily by a literal Katy Perry bubbling under throwaway single. Unfortunately for your narrative, that fictional timeline is not the reality we are forced to live in. Back here on earth, Ga ga released Disease as a lead, fell flat on her face, and resorted to padding her 63 week charting album with Bruno's song, only to collect a 10% royalty cut on it. It makes total sense why Liddos are forced to use Olivia Rodrigo's stats.

For this argument to be grounded in empirical reality, there would first need to be a subsequent solo track that secured a minimum of a one-week tenure at #1. That reality for certain artists is non-existent. You could say it's a stark mathematical demonstration of how far the once-mighty have fallen. OT: Looking at the list, I can only see bonafide hitmakers.

Does your definition of organic include slapping another artist's song onto your album, watching your lead single stall at #27 on the Hot 100, or selling your 1M* selling record for 99 cents on Amazon? Please let us know. Because, as we all know, peaking at #3 on Kaliningrad and Lithuania Radiomonitor Tophit Airplay charts is much, much greater than moving units in the actual IFPI #1 music market in the world. It most definitely carries the same weight.

What an awfully quiet thread for such a massive achievement. Surely these four can chime in and share their thoughts? @Doctor Dick @Link16 @Fluch @REALiTi

He played Walter's 15 year old son on the show. Unbelievable

In the spirit of undercover stanning, why are Little Mosquitoes using Bullie and Diaperlivia to drag and mock Taylor? Are Stefanyahu's solo receipts really that abhorrent?

A MULTIWEEK solo #1 single your honour

Am I blind, or did you completely leave Lady GaGa off this list, OP? How many multiweek solo #1s does she have?

It's definitely because of that, Mr. Stratus. You figured it all out. I am now dispatching an urgent security alert to the Discord membership.

I'm afraid both possess multiple SOLO multiweek #1 singles on the Hot 100, as well as post-2011 solo #1s, which is more than many girls, including the OP's fave, can say

I thought Bullie was somewhat of a Fad of her time, but Fad at least has one multiweek solo #1 single to her name. Bullie kind of has zilch

Death wishes? Let's not take things to the extreme. I'm just bringing up the facts published by Billboard themselves. Hot 100 career weeks at #1: 1 Billboard 200 career #1 albums: 2 If you're this sensitive to cold, hard objective data, you can always go cry to HQ about it. It wouldn't be the first time

An ATRL mystery for Mr. Stratus to investigate: The bizarre overlap between XXXillie stans and stans of that talentless SM corporate K-slop known as ADspa and Le DollarScheme.