In reply to Antonio.

I'm trying to understand how her album was flopping when it was her highest 1st week sales of her career and was her fastest album to reach gold all of this was in a months time of the album being out then she died, Rock da Boat nor More than a Woman were released yet so she only had We Need A Resolution out which was a under performance but didn't stop the album from selling....as big as Brandy celebrity and fame was she only outsold Aaliyah by 100k which is not a slay at all and her nor Monica have yet to surpass Aaliyahs 1st week sales from her last album which should tell you she had surpassed them in the 00s...Aaliyah was a multi platinum selling artist and she achieved that without half the promo what makes you think she was destined to flop when she was basically in the mist of crossing over...and with the older artist of the 90s slowing down(excluding Mariah and Janet) she had all eyes on her as the star of the future...I like Bey as she is 1 of my favs but her start to solo super stardom was not easy her 1st few attempts were flops and she and her team had to go back change her look and sound that her 1st album was initially planned to sound and change it all up then she came back out in the rest was history. All of this artist have their own reasons for flopping as long as Aaliyah didn't make poor decisions off stage and stayed hungry she would have been fine her and Bey are too different and neither ones Success would have affected the other.