In reply to Mark111.

I truly loved Aaliyah, but there's no way she would have ended up becoming bigger than Brandy in the last decade. She would have been pulling in numbers that Bran and Mo do today (2014)! I brought that 'Aaliyah' album the first day it was available and I recall how disappointed I was to see it sell under 200K debut week. It rapidly started declining on the BB200. The album was full of potential, but there's no doubt in my mind that it would have under-performed had she still been alive. Aaliyah had some mainstream single success with 'Try Again' (in 2000), but it was her only top 10 on the Hot 100 after releasing the last 5 singles of her career before passing (We Need a Resolution #59, Come Back in One Piece #117, I Don't Wanna #35, Are You That Somebody #21) and this was the case during a time when R&B artists had commercial success. Yes, Bran was on a decline somewhere around the mid 00's, but her impact was already made. She's the only one in the pack seeing superstar ww sales (NSN, 16x) and earning 2 multi-plat albums & an additional plat album (before the album left the charts within the year it arrived and not gradually). Aaliyah would have certainly had my support if she was still here, but it doesn't appear that her fate would be any different from most 90's singers (unless she had started out on a much bigger level than that she had reached).