In reply to Kev.

In the music industry, an artist is worth and judged by the sales of their most recent album. If NSN sold 5 million and FM had done 3-4 million, then that could be argued as still being a success, with a fair/realistic dip. But FM suffered close to an 80% drop from NSM. By industry calculation, that's a flop. If she were some brand new singer, selling a million would have been considered a success. But she was considered a major pop star, who was expected to do much more than that. Her label probably poured millions into the production cost of that album, expecting another blockbuster, and I doubt they were satisfied with that result. I know she was pregnant and couldn't promote it as much, but the fact remains that it didn't deliver. And she has been unable to bounce back from it. Every album after saw sales worse than the one before. So ultimately, Brandy's only hit albums were the first two. The last four have failed.