Bey has her acoomplishments on Billboard but they are no match for Mariah. Mariah was able to accomplish a feat for two dec back to back. Thats remarkable. Speaking of top40 hits your girl Bey is struggling a great deal to get one now even with all of the press and promo folks just aren't feeling it. She finally mustered up an r&b hit. You can't bring up "DC" sales, and then complain about us bringing up the 90s sales which is a huge portion of what Simon is speaking about. You just don't wanna look stupid in which you do. Thats why you keep talking about"00", alone. Back to "RTW", that didn't even hit the top20 therefore for Beyonce that is a massive flop. No sugarcoating that one. You the previous era was bigger and brighter correct, HOWEVER SALES WERE STILL HIGH IN "03", so her first album atleast should have been a blockbuster and it wasn't. Leave it alone. Over the past 20yrs. Mariah Carey 175 to 200million albums ww. Beyonce 27 million ww, lol i'm a fool for even mentioning those numbers in the same breath. Obviously MARIAH is the bigger artist........ Beyonce was hot the last dec, and all she has is 5 number ones. Really?........ By the way "DC"s first album only went platinum. If your gonna brag about their biggest one you might just well speak about the one before it. Album sales were still huge during that moment.