iheartruby, if you had already met my challenge, then you would have over one million copies sold already etc etc - see my post. So I'm afraid you haven't met it. Keep trying, though. If you get yourself a decent PR machine, you never know, you might even make it as far as this young lady:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wffwg7pA0t8
Reverand, I take your point about good not necessarily being equal to high sales. However, I guess 'good' will vary for each of us (Madonna, for instance, I could easily describe as over-rated, over-marketed, bland tripe). I happen to think she (Katy) is good (like I said, I've worked with some rubbish that calls itself professional - some of it quite well-known) and she has the sales that say a couple of million people think the same. I could understand this many people buying 'rubbish' if they were kids and easily influenced, but most adults only buy music if they like it.