Chris Brown ain’t never been this smooth….

[Prodyson]

Ushers 75 million count by the RIAA is singles and albums too. You're acting as if the way the RIAA does its count magically changed and it hasn't except to include the effect of streaming which has made it harder for artists to sell music. The fact is no one buys music anymore they stream. In Ushers prime you had to either get a bootleg, borrow from a friend or buy the album. Now you can stream on your favorite site or if you dont have an account go on YouTube.

The streaming/download formula is 10 song downloads or 1500 streams equal 1 album sale.

Which means an artist has to get 1.5 Billion streams or 10 million song downloads to go platinum on an album. Which means if Usher dropped 'My way' or '8701' right now he would need 12 Billion streams or 80 million song downloads to be certified sell 8x platinum. It's rare for a hip hop or rnb artist to go platinum now, only 4 did this year. in Ushers time it was common. Nowadays If you're not Adele or Bruno Mars it's impossible.

CB would've been a bigger artist sales wise if he had come out in Ushers time because it would've been easier to sell albums. Why do you think record labels came up with the 360 deal? It's because streaming has made it so much harder to monetize and sell albums and they started tapping other artist revenue generators.

But during Usher’s 8701 and Confessions days he WAS essentially Adele and Bruno Mars. Probably more popular during the Confessions album. The amount of streams Let it Burn, Yeah, My Way and Confessions Part II alone would have gotten would have been ridiculous. Confessions is an all-time great album, with soooo many hits. Chris Brown doesn’t have anything to compare. His best album is probably on the same level as 8701 or My Way. Which is also nothing to scoff at.

Now Chris Brown’s feature game does surpass Usher’s… by a mile. But I don’t judge an artist by features. It takes much more to carry a whole (or most of) song by yourself, let alone a whole album.

 

[levitate]

fukk that hammer wanted to hurt em.. hammer got the pass and mike avoided hammer til he died

Man, Hammer was trash in comparison…

All that flopping and shyt, unsophisticated ass dances…

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

It is basically impossible to compare physical sales era artists (when fans paid upwards of $20 cash per album...) to the digital/streaming artists era (where fans either access streams for free or pay for subscriptions, to Spotify and Apple Music platforms, or for downloads...).

Plus, these contemporary artist wars are largely a hallmark of internet-era children finding issues that they can argue about on digital media.

Maybe if the generations had Twitter, the Michael Jackson versus Prince wars would have been brutal.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

But during Usher’s 8701 and Confessions days he WAS essentially Adele and Bruno Mars. Probably more popular during the Confessions album.

Confessions sold a ridiculous number of albums: 15,000,000. Those years, the list retail price of a CD varied from $13.98 to $17.98, which meant that each sale netted about $10.00 per unit.

Confessions alone may have earned over $125 million in revenue globally (calculating in discounts and giveaways).

I don't think Chris Brown has been near anything that has brought in $100 million dollars of recording revenue.

 

[Dynamite James]

You have to be a troll, can't count, or don't understand music industry terms.



Gold = 500k album units
Platinum = 1M album units
Diamond = 10M album units

Thriller is certified 7x Diamond = 70 million

For an artist to outsell CBs catalog they'd have to go 14x Diamond (140M album units) sold in 1 album.

The Beatles and MJ (the best selling artists of all time) have never done that in one album. MJ almost outsold Ushers whole catalog with Thriller (Usher certified 75M) but not CB (140M certified).



The classic Coli tapout.

You are going on ignore breh . Gtfoh with these duck tales

 

[Heretic]

You have to be a troll, can't count, or don't understand music industry terms.



Gold = 500k album units
Platinum = 1M album units
Diamond = 10M album units

Thriller is certified 7x Diamond = 70 million

For an artist to outsell CBs catalog they'd have to go 14x Diamond (140M album units) sold in 1 album.

The Beatles and MJ (the best selling artists of all time) have never done that in one album. MJ almost outsold Ushers whole catalog with Thriller (Usher certified 75M) but not CB (140M certified).



The classic Coli tapout.

I don't think you get it tho. There's a difference between records, which is albums and singles... and albums. Chris Brown has not sold 140 something million albums. Maybe he has sold 140 million "records". Pure album sales, you can look and see for yourself.

Gold & Platinum - RIAA

Gold & Platinum - RIAA


These are RIAA certifications.

 

[Mowgli]

Chris brown to tall lanky and loose to be dancing the way he does. Dances be looking a little No sometimes.

 

[Kaypain]

you obviously haven’t seen his performances . You must be really young

I'm just now realizing that Tyerese was in this video