Ashanti was BIGGER than Beyonce for quite some time. I remember in Tower Records in NYC they had HUGE Ashanti posters EVERYWHERE when her CD came out. That year it was Beyonce, Tweet (remember her? Oops, Oh my!) and Ashanti all having their big debut CDs or singles around the same time. Ashanti had TREMENDOUSLY high-selling singles, back to back and has probably had higher charting and better selling songs than Beyonce thus far. When that awful Foolish song came out, all middle and high schoolers ran out and bought the CD. The difference is that Beyonce is forever hungry and Ashanti got lazy as she probably realized she could've retired FOREVER just off that shit she wrote for J.Lo.