Youtube likes/views easily show how Britney's music has had far more staying power than Christina's.

[Dcarp999]

Don't get me wrong, I love Christina Aguilera as well, and I believe she is incredibly talented. I never thought her music was similar to Britney's or even should have been compared to it, they are stylistically very different and personally, I don't listen to them for the same reasons or at the same times.

But I regularly hear people claim "Britney may have been more successful in her prime, but Christina is more relevant today and her legacy has held up better."

While Christina has had fewer controversies, her music has NOT had the staying power of Britney's. Here are some examples, from Youtube, which demonstrate this:

Two of Christina's early hits from her debut album were "What A Girl Wants" and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)." These songs hit #1 in many countries, and were everywhere on the radio, television... you could not escape them. Yet today, no one is watching the videos on Youtube or streaming the songs. Here are the streams and views:

Genie In A Bottle: 1.2M likes, 240M views.

What A Girl Wants: 195K likes, 42M views.

Come On Over (All I Want Is You): 226K likes, 53M views.

For some people these are the first songs they think of when they think of the beginning of Christina's career. Let's look also at Britney's singles from the same period and it is obvious.

Baby One More Time: 5.1M likes, 893M views

Sometimes: 1.1M likes, 309M views

(You Drive Me) Crazy: 709K likes, 199M views

Born To Make You Happy: 339K likes, 86M views

Some of Britney's singles at the time of their releases were nowhere near as ubiquitous as these songs by Christina, but have had far more staying power. People are STILL engaging with these songs today. They were not #1 across the world and were often second or third singles which were overshadowed at the time. Let's look at some of them today.

Overprotected: 529K likes, 153M views

Break The Ice: 488K likes, 95M views

Criminal: 2.8M likes, 213M views (this is higher than those for Christina's second most well known song, Beautiful, which has 994K likes and 145M views.

These are two very different artists, I respect both of them, but it is clear that Britney's detractors are incorrect: Britney's music has had more staying power than Christina's. This does not diminish Christina's talent or accomplishments in any way but it is just what the numbers show.

[Politik]

Britney is an icon that transcends generations. Christina, well, at least she can sing. 😝

[blackingouthenegativity]

5 hours ago, Politik said:

Britney is an icon that transcends generations. Christina, well, at least she can sing. 😝

But not really. Her technique is terrible. The best singing I’ve seen her do recently was when she was imitating Britney in that attempted Master Class shade.

[Lolai]

8 hours ago, Dcarp999 said:

But I regularly hear people claim "Britney may have been more successful in her prime, but Christina is more relevant today and her legacy has held up better."

Lolli, no one ever said that. where you from? You seem high.

[PlatinumB]

[rik]

Literally who cares. This is so embarrassing and stupid. Why do we always feel the need to prove Britney is bigger than Christina if she’s apparently so irrelevant? Everyone knows Britney is an icon and the bigger artist. I would expect her to have more views, etc, because she is legitimately one of the biggest selling artists of all time and the biggest selling female artist of her generation, with records that were held for almost 20 years.
 

Why put someone else down in the process? And before people start saying Britney agrees, I found Britney’s shade to  be unnecessary last year and so did a lot of people. Almost as unnecessary as all the crap Christina has said. Plus she apologized. Let this 20+ year old rivalry between fans go. 

Edited December 26, 2023 by rik

[fays1]

Nobody has ever said that, your just obsessed thinking about Christina, and trying to compare them. Its clear and obvious Britney is more successful, so why the need to revisit the idea?

[Emil87]

I’d love to never hear the name Christina mentioned on this forum again. Let her stay in 2002 where she belongs. 

[RadicalOptimism]

Same with Spotify listeners. Christina used to always have more listeners than Britney, but in the past couple of years or so Britney has blown her out of the water. 
 

Today for example:

Britney: #62 with 47,939,459

Christina: #154 with 30,562,342 

Before anyone mentions Christmas, Britney has ONE Christmas song. Christina has a Christmas ALBUM 

But yes both very talented people, but I’m glad the GP is still recognizing Britney is THAT *****

[The Queen]

The obsession for:

1. Christina Aguilera 

2. Britney-related AI material

... in this forum is crazy. Get a job guys.

Edited December 26, 2023 by The Queen

[Fab britney]

I mean this in the nicest way possible but out in the real world ppl left Christina in 2006, and britney in 2011 until 2020, and people became obsessed w britney again. But britney is such an icon that she’ll never be irrelevant.

Edited December 26, 2023 by Fab britney

[PokemonSpears]

And Christina's most watched YouTube video (solo) is the Spanish hit Pero Me Acuerdo de Ti, with almost the double of views of the video that follows it, Candyman, and I'm sure if Ven Conmigo was uploaded to her channel since 2009, it would have an equal amount of views.

I've always said she could've become an icon in the Latin scene had she continued that path. She could've been the opposite of Shakira by making the inverse crossover, but she neglected the Latin audiences for decades. When she tried to revive her Spanish singing career with that album or EPs or whatever that was, it was too late.

 

I know that people in the US don't care, and probably shouldn't care about what happens outside their country, but I feel like you need to be on this side, aka, anywhere else besides the US to really appreciate the impact or the influence of a given artist. For example, American people may think that Taylor Swift has this huge, consistent career since late 00's or whatever, but I don't think she was really that known internationally until 2015-2016 or even later, I'm talking to that point that even older folks know who she is, even if they don't know or like her music.

Since the beginning, Britney's global presence was undeniable, but I'm not sure about Christina. She was very well known because of her Spanish album Mi Reflejo, but only here in Latin America; I ignore how popular Christina was in other places. But even here, her popularity decreased as years went by. Other than some select collabs, like with Pitbull or Maroon 5 or Alejandro Fernández, I'd say her last huge hit was Candyman, though Your Body got a lot of airplay on VH1, but that's just one tv channel.

I like Christina too, but to me it's not even a question to determine who's always been the most popular, and that of course is Britney. And even so, I think Britney is still very underappreciated. Videos like BOMT or Toxic should've hit 1B views years ago. But then you see other artist's videos, like Beyoncé's Crazy in Love or Single Ladies, and they still haven't hit that mark either, and you understand that it may be a generational thing as well, where all these 90's-00's artists and hits got outdone by the newer artists and hits that were released during the digital/streaming era. Yet in cases like Britney, her classics such as Oops, BOMT and Toxic eventually surpassed the newer songs that used to rule her channel's views, like WB, IWG or Womanizer.

 

 

 

 

[Angel 1]

I get that Britney might be more popular than Christina but Christina is still number one to me. 

[DiamondCircus]

It's hilarious people still judge Christina's live vocals versus many artists that lip sync on stage.

In addition people act as if Christina hasn't accomplished anything, nor hasn't been one of the best-selling in music the last 20 years she's definitely on that list.

We know Britney's sold more albums and is and Icon, but Christina is known as the voice, still winning awards, selling out shows and performing and looking hotter than ever.

Christina's bank account I'm sure is very happy as well.

 

[FullCircle]

On 12/25/2023 at 10:27 AM, Dcarp999 said:

I regularly hear people claim "Britney may have been more successful in her prime, but Christina is more relevant today and her legacy has held up better."

 

Literally where???  

I've never heard that, and that's because it's not true. Britney is way more relevant than Christina today. Have you not seen the sales for The Woman In Me? Or the streaming numbers for My Only Wish (This Year)? Where do you live? 

To use youtube likes/views as a metric of success is kind of dumb though because artists don't make a lot of money from streaming services. Christina's numbers might not be as impressive as Britney's, but Christina made better choices with her life. She's worked a lot less, and she's a lot richer. 

 

[Frankie8]

I just want to say that Christina has phenominal views for just having 10 fans. They really worked hard to get those numbers.

[rik]

5 hours ago, PokemonSpears said:

And Christina's most watched YouTube video (solo) is the Spanish hit Pero Me Acuerdo de Ti, with almost the double of views of the video that follows it, Candyman, and I'm sure if Ven Conmigo was uploaded to her channel since 2009, it would have an equal amount of views.

I've always said she could've become an icon in the Latin scene had she continued that path. She could've been the opposite of Shakira by making the inverse crossover, but she neglected the Latin audiences for decades. When she tried to revive her Spanish singing career with that album or EPs or whatever that was, it was too late.

 

I know that people in the US don't care, and probably shouldn't care about what happens outside their country, but I feel like you need to be on this side, aka, anywhere else besides the US to really appreciate the impact or the influence of a given artist. For example, American people may think that Taylor Swift has this huge, consistent career since late 00's or whatever, but I don't think she was really that known internationally until 2015-2016 or even later, I'm talking to that point that even older folks know who she is, even if they don't know or like her music.

Since the beginning, Britney's global presence was undeniable, but I'm not sure about Christina. She was very well known because of her Spanish album Mi Reflejo, but only here in Latin America; I ignore how popular Christina was in other places. But even here, her popularity decreased as years went by. Other than some select collabs, like with Pitbull or Maroon 5 or Alejandro Fernández, I'd say her last huge hit was Candyman, though Your Body got a lot of airplay on VH1, but that's just one tv channel.

I like Christina too, but to me it's not even a question to determine who's always been the most popular, and that of course is Britney. And even so, I think Britney is still very underappreciated. Videos like BOMT or Toxic should've hit 1B views years ago. But then you see other artist's videos, like Beyoncé's Crazy in Love or Single Ladies, and they still haven't hit that mark either, and you understand that it may be a generational thing as well, where all these 90's-00's artists and hits got outdone by the newer artists and hits that were released during the digital/streaming era. Yet in cases like Britney, her classics such as Oops, BOMT and Toxic eventually surpassed the newer songs that used to rule her channel's views, like WB, IWG or Womanizer.

 

 

 

 

A lot of that has to do with VEVO coming to YouTube in 2009, like think about how many people could’ve surpassed a billion. By now, Britney should be well beyond a billion for Baby and Toxic if pre- VEVO views were counted.

 

VEVO was  honestly the worst thing that could’ve happened to YouTube, because clearly they stopped with VEVO. Like what was the point of that if they were going to do nothing with it? It’s so embarrassing actually. 

[FullCircle]

14 hours ago, Frankie8 said:

I just want to say that Christina has phenominal views for just having 10 fans. They really worked hard to get those numbers.

 

Right? Especially since 2 of those fans are her own children. Not everyone has that.

[blackingouthenegativity]

On 12/25/2023 at 12:27 PM, Dcarp999 said:

Genie In A Bottle: 1.2M likes, 240M views.

Omg I just learned that a Disney Channel cover of Genie In A Bottle has more views than the original

 

Edited December 27, 2023 by blackingouthenegativity

[PokemonSpears]

23 hours ago, rik said:

A lot of that has to do with VEVO coming to YouTube in 2009, like think about how many people could’ve surpassed a billion. By now, Britney should be well beyond a billion for Baby and Toxic if pre- VEVO views were counted.

 

VEVO was  honestly the worst thing that could’ve happened to YouTube, because clearly they stopped with VEVO. Like what was the point of that if they were going to do nothing with it? It’s so embarrassing actually. 

but is not only that, I mean it did affect of course, but for example you have all these other legendary hits, from the 80s or 90s, like Girls Just Want to Have Fun, and that one does have over 1 billion views, despite being officially uploaded in 2009 too.

There's like this category of undeniable hits, that by the time VEVO was created, they were already considered hits universally, so they just gained massive views organically.

But the 00's hits, suffered from the fate that by 2009 they were still too recent to be considered classics by many, but too old/dated to be considered contemporary hits, so they just remained in this limbo for the longest time. 

As I said, for years it was the norm that Britney's newer hits were the ones with the most views. By 2013, I Wanna Go was still the most watched video on her channel, though it was later surpassed by WB if I'm not mistaken. Not to mention Scream & Shout but that's not on her channel.

It wasn't until around 2015 that with all those "Teens react" videos, songs like BOMT, Toxic and Oops were put on the map again, because by then they were starting to be considered classics, and soon overtook her channel (though they still don't hit the 1B mark).

 

Still, the fact that so many Britney videos have hit at least the 100M mark, though slowly, it means her music had more longevity than most of her contemporaries, and when you compare it to her "#1 hit" HIAM, which eventually stuck in views, you see which are her true hits as well.