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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
Record sales mean nothing
Total album sales....
Britney Spears - 31 million
Nirvana - 25 million
Remind me again , who were supposed to be the band of the 90s?
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Record sales was only one of several criteria I judged them by, so your straw man ploy won't work here.
You need to remind yourself that Britney Spears is a FEMALE POP SOLO ARTIST who doesn't write any of her own material. Her writers and producers are primarily interested in writing songs that appeal to the mainstream. She is also a good-looking woman who can appeal to male fans with her looks, body and sex appeal.
Nirvana was a MALE GRUNGE ROCK BAND who wrote virtually all of their own material. It wasn't their goal to produce mainstream pop that would sell to the masses. Nor did they have the sex appeal and good looks of a young woman.
So you're making an irrelevant apples and oranges comparison. Sorry you're not able to make an intellectual distinction between the two.
The Beatles and Rolling Stones were both male, British mainstream Rock bands originating in the same era, and they wrote virtually all of their own material--so comparing them in terms of record sales, influence etc.-- is a COMPLETELY VALID comparison.