In reply to HailBeysus.

Janet should absolutely be put in this. Her gap between this latest flop and her previous one was the same...and she had the "comeback hype" - or rather her stans tried to pretend she did. If a long gap were beneficial to artists, that album should have sold a helluva lot more than it did. As for having nothing to prove, when an artist has nothing to prove, that's when its time to either retire - or make their music available for free. For as long as they want people to spend money on their work, then they will continue to have to prove themselves worth it. You don't get to be in BUSINESS and "not having anything to prove." That's like McDonald's saying saying that they have nothing to prove because they've sold 99 billion burgers.

That being said, back to Justin - he released part two of 20/20 less than a year after part one, and it still opened with higher than average first weeks sales (then went on to sell more than the average pop album overall) and managed to go platinum. Part one of that album did almost a million first week and became the biggest selling album of that year...then part two came on the heels of it and did slightly better than average. I don't know too many artists who could pull that off.