Spare me the excuses. Both Ariana and Tamar are doing TERRIBLE in album and single sales. Record companies don't release albums for them to struggle sell under 500k. That's not "decent," that's a waste of time and money. Ariana and Tamar both have machines behind them, so there's no excuse -- NONE -- for them to not be at least platinum (and IMO merely "platinum" isn't all that impressive). They need to get their shit together and figure out a way to move some REAL numbers, or find another line of work.