BILLIONS CLUB: Selena Gomez (5/381)

BILLIONS CLUB:

Selena Gomez (5/381)

125/381 =  32%

    I think Selena might be the last artist/act in the BILLIONS CLUB with five cuts and she only barely- she is the current cover girl of the playlist:  Lose You to Love Me from her 2020 record (?!) Rare is the most recent song to make the list- two days ago.  That is actually the only song she has in the billions club as a solo artist.  Her collaborators in the billions club include: Marshmello, Kygo, Charlie Puth & DJ Snake.  I guess that is pretty good for a woman who obviously considers herself more of an actress/all around celebrity than working musician.  She hasn't done a tour since 2016(!) and only a small basket's worth of live performances since then-- mostly doing a single song or two songs on television.

  If you stop to think about it, that actually makes her presence in the BILLIONS CLUB more impressive since all of the other artists I've written about on this list continue to perform live- even Queen- who I saw just announced another tour with Adam Lambert playing Freddy Mercury.   I actually genuinely like Gomez as an actress- Spring Breakers was a bit of a revelation as far as her performance went, and while I don't actually like or watch Only Murders in the Building I've seen enough here and there to recognize her dry wit and success playing opposite Steve Martin and Martin Short.  She's no fool, Selena Gomez.

  Gomez is also the first artist on this list who defines herself primarily as something OTHER than a musician/singer/musical performer- if you asked her today she'd probably call herself an actress with a past in music, which is impressive, because it seems to me that recency- the fact that an artist is continuing to produce new music, even if that music doesn't contain hits, and maintaining something like an active release and touring schedule is key to keeping a song in the public eye long enough for it to get to one billion streams.