Oral Fixation

RING THE ALARM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why the HELL aren't they releasing it here??????!!11111?!!!?

This thread's lost the point entirely, and I'm partly to blame.

I don't think they've ever released a statement saying how much Celine Dion's sold.

MTV didn't give him the Artist of the Millenium award, he thought he won it when it really was just a cake. Britney Spear's fault. And I did not know that about Madonna, I'm surprised she's won nothing for it. Guiness World Records said she only sold 120 million by 2000, and you're saying 210 million by 2006. I don't understand how she could have sold 90 million copies in 6 years - explain that for me. Another blunder in your statement, where does Nana Mouskouri fall into this?

No, Miriah Carey gets the normal "World's Best-Selling R&B/Female Artist" awards, that are only significant to that particular year (so each year it'll be different, Shakira will probably get this year's award). The WMA Diamond awards are the "all time" ones, and Celine Dions the only woman to get it for biggest selling female artist - but Miriah Carey got one in 2003 for passing 150 million albums.

No she's not. Two years ago the World Music Awards gave Celine Dion the award for the biggest selling female artist of all time, and since then Celine Dion's sold another 10 million or so records. We could probably argue all day about who is actually the best selling, but the World Music Awards say it's Celine Dion and I'd believe them above anyone on this site.

Shakira is probably at the moment as big as Britney, in terms of sales and overall success (of all 11 albums, 39 singles, World Tour, etc.). In the coming years, Shakira's next albums will probably still have that rock-latin-cultured-pop feel to them (and perhaps even urban, if she goes that way), and she'll continue to do well. In 20 years time, she could well be bigger than Kylie and bigger than Madonna (obviously not as big as Celine Dion).

How about "Latin American Goddess". Surely you can't dispute that one - and it's a metaphor btw.

I already admitted that, two pages ago. I said I should probably said "Future Queen" or something.

She has 11 albums and nearly 40 singles. That's already a long career, fool.

HDL is also the most played song in music history! Madonna isn't. And Madonna's biggest hit came when she was 47 years old, Shakira's managed to out do Hung Up at the age of 29.

It's 40 million without Oral Fixation.

Shakira's only just really started in the UK, and I was thinking more on a global scale, and not just the UK charts. Robbie and Madonna also have the advantage that they speak English as a first tongue. English is Shakira's fourth language, after Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.

Yeah fine, but Shakira's sold around 50 million albums worldwide (total record sales = around 75 million). And Shakira's only ever released 5 singles in the UK, so obviously she can't have 34 Top 10 hits in a row. As for Hung Up, Hips Don't Lie will over-take it by year's end. And HDL was Number 1 in every country it was released in, except for Canada, Hungary, Japan and Russia. As many countries have no singles chart, she was only officially Number 1 in 41 countries (snap), but in actuality it would have been many more (80 or so).

She's had 3 hit UK singles (HDL, Whenever Wherever and Underneath Your Clothes).

I should really have said "Future Queen" rather than just "Queen". With 11 albums (7 studio) and 39 singles, she's already worthy of such a title.

Well whatever dude, she's bigger than Madonna was 20 years ago, so she's the new Queen.

Well she probably has passed it. I'm guessing she'll be Top 20 for at least another few weeks, and Top 40 for another month or two. I guess 500k is a possibility.

No because it's "Chart Chat".

I think this deserves its own thread. Shakira passes the 400k mark. [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQgzO6StnJ0.swf TW LW Band Title Total Sales 1 1 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 796200 2 2 Shakira Hips don’t lie 401857 3 3 Sandi Thom I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair 315052 4 4 Infernal From Paris to berlin 298842 5 5 Nelly Furtado Maneater 272093 6 6 Rihanna SOS 236500 7 7 Notorious BIG Nasty girl 217150 8 8 Orson No tomorrow 214600 9 9 Lily Allen Smile 204400 10 10 Shayne Ward No promises 193200 I'd like to see anyone challenge her. She'll slap you up big time, even across the Atlantic.

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/9237/fergielondonbridgelcoverfq8.jpg She looks like a 50 year old crack ho.

Rudebox is disgusting. It's hip-pop for a generic white audience. :puke2: But I like The Killers new song on at the moment, this is real music.

Cascada @ No. 12. I think this song is one of the better of the year.

Pink = 15.

They didn't delete Shakira, thank God! She wouldn't have become the biggest solo artist of the year otherwise.