Aviators is the Best Artist

My opponent has chosen to argue that Aviators is the best artist in the world. This is an extremely bold claim considering that the statement implies that there is no-one better than the artist known as Aviators on our entire planet. One must take into consideration that this topic falls heavily into the realm of the subjective, with everyone having different preferences and tastes in favorite music genres or artists. I will compare Aviators among the global scale of artists within our world to show that he is not, in fact, the best artist in the world. Because Aviators is mainly known as a musician, I will be comparing him to other musicians instead of other types of artists like painters or dancers. I. Album sales and reception compared to other musicians in the same year of debut release. According to the website provided by my opponent, Aviators has recorded 4 studio albums and 3 remix albums [1]. His debut album Reflections of a Dream released on December 20, 2011. While it has received generally good reviews, there are still reviews that can be seen giving the artist only 1 out of 5 stars [2]. This is not something that someone would expect to see if Aviators was indeed the best artist in the world. More importantly though, it seems that iTunes and his website are really the only main outlets he has at his disposal when it comes to selling his music albums. One would think that the best artist in the world would have his albums being sold throughout every major music store and would be easily found throughout the web. [1]. http://www.soundoftheaviators.com...[2]https://itunes.apple.com...Now lets look at some of the real best artists of 2011, the same year which Aviators released his debut album on iTunes. According to last. fm the best artist of 2011 was Adele [3]. According to MTV. com the best artist of 2011 was Katy Perry [4]. According to billboard. com the best artist of 2011 was Adele [5]. According to rollingstone. com the best new artist of 2011 was Cage the Elephant [6]. [3]. http://www.last.fm...[4]http://www.mtv.com...[5]http://www.billboard.com...[6]http://www.rollingstone.com...- 0870239As it is clearly shown above, Aviators never received the title of best artist of the year. More importantly, he wasn't officially named once on any best artist list for 2011. This is not something that seems characteristic of the best artist in the world. You would think that if he was the best artist in the world that he would have atleast been recognized as that atleast once, but he wasn't because he isn't the best artist in the world. He wasn't in 2011 and he isn't in 2014 as I will show a little bit later. II. Album sales and reception compared to other musicians in 2014. According to the website my opponent provided earlier, Aviators released an Acoustic EP on February 20, 2014. This album seems to only be purchasable through his own vendor service via his website with the original post on his website receiving a grand total of 0 comments [7]. It seems that in 3 years since his first album was released he has still not received the global recognition or achievements that other artists have achieved within that same time frame. I will now list who the artists being recognized as the best in 2014 are:According to billboards. com the best digital album right now is Rick Ross 'Mastermind' [8]. According to huffingtonpost. com the best artist to start listening to for 2014 is Bad Rabbits [9]. According to time. com the best artist to watch for 2014 is Diane Birch [10]. Once again, it seems that Aviators has not been recognized as being the best artist nor is he even listed in any of these popular lists. This clearly reflects the fact that Aviators is not the best artist in the world. In all fairness, on the one outlet where is latest album is available for sale, he does have about 7 people praise his album [11]. One thing is certain though after looking at those comments, they are all fans of My Little Pony. This revelation raises the question: could it be that Aviators is nothing more than an artist who has a minor cult following thanks to his association with the show? [7]. http://www.soundoftheaviators.com...[8]http://www.billboard.com...[9]http://www.huffingtonpost.com...[10]http://entertainment.time.com...[11]http://music.soundoftheaviators.com...III. Aviators is nothing more than an artist who is mostly popular amongst My Little Pony fans. My opponent made the bold claim that Aviators is the best artist in the world. I believe I have provided an adequate amount of evidence to show the audience that Aviators is not, in fact, the best artist in the world. Furthermore, I have come to believe that Aviators is mostly just a popular artist among My Little Pony fans. What has led me to this belief is that he has had no real recognition outside of the My Little Pony fans, and more importantly, has never once been recognized as the best artist in the world by any reputable source. Even Aviators himself admits that 99% of his fanbase is made up of 'bronies'. This is why he now makes 'brony music' [12]. [12]. http://www.soundoftheaviators.com...In closing, I have presented why I believe Aviators is not the best artist in the world. From providing evidence showing that no reputable sources agree with the claim made by my opponent, to providing evidence from the artist himself claiming that 99% of his fanbase are bronies. This leads me to the ultimate conclusion that Aviators is nothing more than a popular artist within the small frame of My Little Pony fandom compared to the much larger global frame of popularly recognized artists in which he remains literally unknown and unrecognized. As per the request of my opponent, I will wait until Round 4 to post my rebuttals to his argument and look forward to continuing this debate with expanded arguments in the coming rounds.