To be fair, James' genre is 'niche' at the moment (In the 80s-90's he might be many times more successful than he is today), although you could say that Haley is also 'niche', the difference is that she's adept at multiple niche genre's which allows for cross pollination. Someone might like her for rocker edge and discover turns out you also love Jazz, through Haley. (like me for instance
) and vice versa....
Think about how HUGE (relatively for my channel) Wild Horses is for Haley as far as exposure to the rocker/metal community. My Analytics shows that many of my videos are viewed linked to from Wild Horses. Right now, it's 113,000 views from becoming my first 2 million view video, which should happen in a month and a half
Be that as it may, CHFIL is two years old (?) and still getting Haley recognition, but don't forget how big PMJ has become as well....
AI was really a microcosm of the career Haley's building for herself. Haley was able to overcome odds by gathering votes from not one large voting block, she was able to draw support from fans of different genres, even country music. Her career is built on and taking advantage of her bountiful amounts of versatility. Her career is really built for long term success rather than one hit wonder (what happened to them?
)
