702 bit aalyiah how?
aalyiah had 2 albums poppin. ashanti had 3.
look at the reactions by half the people in this thread. theres a legion of folks that assume that shes r&b royalty.
aaliyah didnt bring in no new type of r&b. timbaland was just continuing on with the swing mob sound that was already poppin for 3 years before that aalyiah album.
monica & brandy were bigger than aaliyah.
ciara & aalyiah both had 2 albums that were poppin. so how is one a flash-in-the-pan and not the other? the difference is aalyiah took a hiatus, as opposed to ciara who dropped her joints back-to-back.
whos basing it off of numbers? the girls loved ciara in her prime the same way the girls of a decade prior loved aaliyah. same chit/different toilet.