She kicks things off with the LP’s orchestral title track, composed and performed by Nicholas Britell who gained an Oscar nomination for the Moonlight score. On Liberation, she gets closer than ever to zeroing in on the right path for her immense skills: her eighth album is a healthy mix of hit-chasing, theatrics and soon-to-be classic power ballads that emphasize her immense skills over half-baked conceptual themes. There have been hits and misses along the way, but one of Aguilera’s greatest attributes is that she has rarely played it safe. Then came concepts: old school sound of 2006’s Back to Basics and the electro-futurism of 2010’s Bionic. There was the bubblegum of her self-titled 1999 debut and her transition into R&B-infused, low-rise jean’d adulthood. And she has spent the better part of two decades figuring out what exactly to do with that voice. Of course, if you are a regular visitor feel free to jump to the following pages.Xtina is, hands down, one of the greatest vocalists of her generation. If you are not yet familiar with the CSPC idea, the next page explains it with a short video, I fully recommend you to check it before getting into sales figures. The concept will not only bring you raw data of all Christina Aguilera albums, physical singles, download singles, music videos and streaming, it will also accurately weight all this information to conclude on meaningful popularity indicators. Now, we will fully clarify the situation setting Christina Aguilera overall popularity from her self-titled debut until her last effort Lotus.Īs usual, I’ll be using the Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept in order to relevantly gauge the diva results. The only thing which remained safe up to now is that from their debut to 2004 they both recorded an impressive string of hits. With valid arguments both sides, it becomes hard to accurately define which one was the biggest. The latter has the biggest UK album, yet the first has the biggest global seller. One has more US #1 albums, the other has more #1 singles.
If recent struggles of both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera moved away public eyes on other new popular singers a la Taylor Swift or Adele, the battle was fierce for several years between both artists and even stronger within’ their respective fan bases. Following the foot steps of the former which got big along with N’Sync boys band, the two blonde girls both arrived in the Pop Music scene in 1998 / 1999 with a huge #1 hit, instantly drawing attention and creating the perfect rivalry story for gossip magazines. While watching a group of teenagers on the Mickey Mouse Club way back in 1993, nobody would have guessed that four of them, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Ryan Gosling, would be superstars two decades later.
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