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For some people only exits US and Europe, Taylor outsold in Canada, Oceania, and Asia (the biggest continent) so...
We have to take market sizes into consideration here though, the UK held on to albums for a bit longer into the late 00's & early 10's than the US where DLs got much bigger very quickly. if we factor in this it's more even, but I'd say she's bigger in the UK still.
Stop making assumptions, I understand what the article is trying to say, I am saying I disagree with it.
Who cares if Asia is the biggest continent? Its still not the biggest music market. Rihanna has Europe which is way more relevant than Asia.
Overall Rihanna outsold Taylor in Africa, Latin World and Europe.
Taylor has Asia and english speaking countries (except the UK and Ireland). Without the USA Rihanna outsold Taylor by far even with her own discography.
That's very useful to know. Thank you! Even then, who'd have thought someone like Rihanna would be pacing for the top seller of the century?
Then let me say that no, you don't understand what the article is saying.
Taylor is 300k ahead, which is 0.3%, according to our estimates and according to our formula. If, for example, we decide to use YouTube views on par with audio streams (something Taylor's fans have been strongly supporting on social media in answer to our articles), then Taylor would be on 115.8 million, while Rihanna would rocket to 121.4 million.
It also only takes a larger share of streams for Rihanna on Apple Music compared to Spotify to move her ahead. That's why a difference of 300k can not confirm Taylor is the biggest seller of the two, thus, it is a virtue tie.
By the way, can't we stop the childish comments glorifying one and criticizing the other? Come on, they both sold over 100 million! They are both super successful, no need to come with dumb stuff saying this one can't sell outside the US or this one can't sell without features, it's just utterly absurd at the end of the day.
I sadly doubt they can mate. We've been on music forums for 15+ years and it's quite clearly endemic, amongst fans of solo female artists. They truly are the bane of every music sales site.
Glad that GGGB is 20 million now. It deserves the league album title. Its also very impressive how that album has been growing at close to 2 million since its last update. Seems like its growth is far from over
Wouldn’t the increase in the weighting of Chinese streams counteract the increase in YouTube though?
Considering you think Celine Dion is more popular with the LGBTQ community than Madonna and Mariah Carey, I don't think you know much about female artists at ALL.
Fans should stay in their lane before they jump on others.
Asia is the future of the music industry. China is already the 7th biggest music market. The streaming is rapidly increasing in countries like Phillipines, Vietnam, Indonesia...some artists teams have been intelligent enough to realize it. You can see how huge are streaming numbers on Spotify of BTS or Taylor, thanks to Asian population. On the other hand, uk and other European markets are slowly falling in.
What!? That's a completely fabricated statement, I have no idea who is the more popular amongst the LGBTQ community and have never claimed to. You need to stop lying and just making things up.
Also, my point above is not even about female artists, it's about the FANS of female artists and their propensity to ruin every music sales site, with their female v female battles. The desperate need to downplay and devalue an artist that is not their favourite, while overstating and overvaluing the artist, that is, is pathetic, annoying and completely unnecessary.
It is also fans of female acts, that tend to level ludicrously stupid jibes at the site, often stating we have issues with their favourite, as we don't update them often enough, we are biased against them, our conclusions are anti certain female acts, we are sexist, in favour of males etc etc etc.
Lastly, I am not a fan of a particular female artist, jumping on fans of another female artist, I am a fan of music sales, jumping on the fans of female acts on the whole, because they continually pollute every site that deals with music sales, with their idiotic battles and stupid comments and reasoning.
ps, as a caveat, I fully appreciate, it is not all fans of female artists, that act like this.
Its also remarkable how people cant get enough with arguing which artists are bigger than the other. Kinda funny to be exact. Lol. 🙂
