Think Bob Dylan bald and fat. Who go to see? I think Dylan is hyper about he looks and expecially hair is very important. Now he is old (81year) and looks old. Nowadays he is hidden on stage, 4-5 times comes out. That's true.

"I can’t recall too many ugly boy bands. So for me it appears that looks are as important as the music"

That's a leap of logic if I ever saw one... Also, are you talking about female audiences in general? Or just female pop fans?

IMO it doesn't work the other way round, men do not seem to be attracted to music through sex.

I stand by my original point and in all honesty, do not see why you're making such a big deal about it, it's not a dig or put down, it's just my take on it.

Mainly female fans of boy bands.

It's obviously not based on just that bit, but also the fact that record companies etc clearly manufacture these groups with sex appeal in mind.

I never said men are attracted to music through sex. And I dont see Celine Dion or Barbra Streisand making sexualize music either, yet they are among the biggest selling artist ever. Its all so subjective. I also never said image or sex doesn't sell. It does, but at the end of the day the music you release must be good too to the ears of your audience. I think its naive of you to think its all about image or sex. Honestly the moment Britney started to sexualize her music I became less of a fan of her. I dont get her music anymore, and considering her album sales dropped a lot after that it speaks volume that sex is not a major determinant of album sales. I am sure she gain some new fans by being more provocative, but obviously she lose a lot more in the process. To think just because somebody is pretty you can make it big in the music industry is such a simplistic view. You need the hits to back it up. Or else you wouldn''t be any different than the thousands of beautiful sexy young girls you see in Hollywood who end up being nothing.

No kidding I know that

It's only because you never knew why Britney went to that direction.
When she got more sexual, it was basically a liberation

I have my views on that. But I think its better if I keep my opinion to myself and not cause more trouble.

It's already destined to do so

It is word Dylanesque. It means style, look like a Dylan- curly hear, thin, quite small, arrogant and writing style, singing style-nasal voice.

She has a loyal fanbase and lots of reissues to hype people up, especially with the upcoming album midnight, so if she's ever gonna experience a weak year in sales gain, it would be atleast 5 years from now or longer

Why is Ed Sheeran's 'The Joker and The Queen' remix featuring Taylor Swift, only listed on Taylor Swift's spotify numbers tool page by Chartmasters, and not included on Ed Sheeran's page? The song is about to reach100 million streams this week but only Taylor will be credited for it for another 100M song.

Midnights will surely be bigger than evermore so the downward trend will be broken I believe.
I think even Red TV has outsold it or is about to. So she kinda has already broken the downward trend.
Hopefully the 1 single per album shes been doing is over.

Red TV is speculated to be at about 4m already, so best believe she broke it

red tv has outsold it so yea .. and we all know how evermore era went and its numbers are as impressive