Quote from: Sl? on July 14, 2017, 04:01:34 PM
Quote from: ssw4919 on July 14, 2017, 03:51:21 PM
Quote from: Sl? on July 14, 2017, 03:31:16 PM
Quote from: ssw4919 on July 14, 2017, 03:23:23 PM
Quote from: Sl? on July 14, 2017, 02:28:03 PM
Bobby was never popping like that.
Don't Be Cruel was the best-selling album of 1989.
Seven times plat, Grammy Awards, huge international tour, awards show performances humping the stage to seduce Whitney. He was kinda IT.
He really was the King of R&B for awhile.
Why are you saying 7 x plat like it's supposed to mean something?
All whitneys albums up to that point were selling 20 mill + worldwide.
Lol at 1 hit album making you king of rnb.
Seven-million in the US. I'm not talking about worldwide because both Whit and Bobby were Americans.
You ain't talking worldwide cuz you can't. 
Whitney was a global superstar. A level reached by few. Your chitlin and local celebrations are of no amusement to me.
Keep clinging to 1989 in the US while Whitney has 15 years of albums that sold more and did it worldwide.
But we're not talking discographies. We're talking about where they were in terms of celebrity in 1989. This was a year before she put out an album that only sold 4x platinum. Sis was getting booed at Soul Train. She had reached unimaginable heights a few years prior, but she was not untouchable.
You misspoke when you said Bobby was never poppin. Wiki doesn't say what his worldwide sales were, but if he toured 3 years internationally, he must have sold at least a couple more million overseas beyond the seven million he did here stateside. He was gone so much, he started releasing videos from his international performances.
But he had 5 Top 10 singles here, biggest-selling album here, a Grammy Award here... do you really think Whitney, Janet, and Madonna were thinking about how he was charting in the Netherlands?
Dude was a young millionaire, successful, with a reputation for sexin' downe among celebrities. Whitney stood no chance.