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Discussion: Is Rihanna really a singles artist?
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Is Rihanna really a singles artist?
So I've heard many times people saying Rih is a singles artist because in their opinion her ticket and album sales are not impressive especially compared to her singles but do these people think about on why her album sales sometimes undeperform? I see her doing better or almost the same as some girls that promote their albums during 2 years, perform on TV almost everyday, discount almost every week while she releases yearly and has her eras cut short with very few performances, her promos consist on performing at the grammys and xfactor uk and other few performances here and there and nothing more, this is nothing especially compared to all of her peers besides Britney, Loud sold 6.5M when her career was deemed over after the underperformed Rated R, the rushy messy TTT era sold 3.5M and Unapologetic is seeing great longetivity with only 2 singles in and very few televised performances.
As for her tickets there's not much to discuss, the Loud tour was a recording break sold out tour, however I still see many people saying she struggles selling tickets and saying she was performing to half empty arenas for DWT but the numbers came in and
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Current Boxscore
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Rihanna, A$AP Rocky
Air Canada Centre
Toronto, Ontario
March 18-19, 2013
$2,498,532
$32,038 /
$32,038
2 /
2
$143.27, $31.38
Live Nation Global Touring
18
Rihanna, A$AP Rocky
Bell Centre
Montreal, Quebec
March 17, 2013
$1,278,497
$16,054 /
$16,054
1 /
1
$147.15, $34.33
Live Nation Global Touring/evenko
19
Rihanna
United Center
Chicago, Ill.
March 22, 2013
$1,234,380
$15,902 /
$15,902
1 /
1
$150, $35
Live Nation Global Touring
23
Rihanna, A$AP Rocky
First Niagara Center
Buffalo, N.Y.
March 8, 2013
$1,117,147
$15,614 /
$15,614
1 /
1
$122.50, $37
Live Nation Global Touring
25
Rihanna, A$AP Rocky
Wells Fargo Center
Philadelphia, Pa.
March 14, 2013
$1,080,298
$15,095 /
$15,095
1 /
1
$122, $32
Live Nation Global Touring
29
Rihanna, A$AP Rocky
Rexall Place
Edmonton, Alberta
March 27, 2013
$1,008,532
$13,133 /
$13,133
1 /
1
$147.28, $34.17
Live Nation Global Touring
33
Rihanna
Joe Louis Arena
Detroit, Mich.
March 21, 2013
$937,674
$15,349 /
$15,349
1 /
1
$125, $35
Live Nation Global Touring
39
Rihanna, A$AP Rocky
MTS Centre
Winnipeg, Manitoba
March 25, 2013
$880,893
$10,649 /
$10,649
1 /
1
$145.40, $32.80
Live Nation Global Touring
41
Rihanna, A$AP Rocky
XL Center
Hartford, Conn.
March 15, 2013
$842,941
$10,985 /
$10,985
1 /
1
$122, $36.50
Live Nation Global Touring
45
Rihanna, A$AP Rocky
Xcel Energy Center
St. Paul, Minn.
March 24, 2013
$780,143
$10,929 /
$10,929
1 /
1
$123, $37.50
Live Nation Global Touring
The first 11 dates: 155,748 / 155,748 (100%) $11,659,037
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apparently she's playing in all sold out shows in her weakest market (the US), the European dates will be something like 2M~3M gross per night.
Do you think she's really a singles artist that struggles to sell albums and tickets? Or do you think that when we actually think a little and look around at all the circumstances her sales are actually great?
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Member Since: 12/3/2011
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Rihanna is definitely not a singles artist. If rih wanted to she could take a break and come back with an album that matches the success of loud.
She averages out tbh. Her album and single sales are balanced.
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No. One certain stanbase is just jealous that she can both have album sales and singles sales simultaneously
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Member Since: 8/23/2011
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Robyn falls under the "global recording artist/future icon" category.
She has it all at the moment.
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No. She is slaying everything with "Unapologetic" era.
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"the European dates will be something like 2M~3M gross per night."
LMAO!
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Yes she is.The navy should accept that already!
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Member Since: 6/26/2010
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Originally posted by Romaysae
"the European dates will be something like 2M~3M gross per night."
LMAO!
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What's so funny you do know it's normal for sold out stadiums and bigger prices to be around those numbers, not like I would expect you would know about that, but yes do laugh just like yall were laughing at the supposed non sold out arenas in the US and now poor things are crying
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Member Since: 11/17/2011
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Originally posted by jomarr
No. One certain stanbase is just jealous that she can both have album sales and singles sales simultaneously
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by Hotshot
YES
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How. If you are going to be delusional, you may as well put something worth laughing at to go with it.
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Originally posted by antoine_
Yes she is.The navy should accept that already!
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If she is, then Britney has been since ITZ
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Eventho she is not a singles artists, her album sales and touring are not that impressive. Katy is btw. Rihanna is just great.
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Originally posted by Last Boy on Earth
What's so funny you do know it's normal for sold out stadiums and bigger prices to be around those numbers, not like I would expect you would know about that, but yes do laugh just like yall were laughing at the supposed non sold out arenas in the US and now poor things are crying
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Bigger prices? I paid like €50,- for my ticket.. But I hope the best for her
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A chick able to sell over 30M albums and have 4 albums released in 4 consecutive years all selling over 3M copies... cannot be tagged as 'singles artist'
She sells more singles than anybody else out there.... But she keeps on selling those albums... she keeps on selling out arenas... she keeps on making her brand expand.... she has star power.... she gets her money... gets her ad-deals.... she has 3 fragrances.... 2 clothing lines... soon a make-up line... she has had a TV show produced... and soon another one... Gets to record with the best of the best in the world....and most importantly.... she makes other stanbases pressed... Which is the clear indicator that she is #WINNING
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Originally posted by Romaysae
Bigger prices? I paid like €50,- for my ticket.. But I hope the best for her
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50 € = 70 $
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Rihanna sells between 3M - 6M per album since 2009. An average successful album does around 2M WW.
Rihanna has at least one #1 single per era. She sells over 5M singles per era (usually a lot more than 5M but most acts are lucky to sell more than 5M singles per era).
Her tours gross more than 50M each.
She doesn't excel in all areas, but to disregard her album sales when they do more than average and to disregard her tour figures which do more than most pop girls is just plain delusional.
Just because you aren't the best at a specific area, doesn't mean you are completely dis-regarded.
/thread tbh
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Member Since: 6/15/2012
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Originally posted by gloamingtheplain
If she is, then Britney has been since ITZ
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Britney has 4 albums which outsold her biggest seller GGGB(it has a re-realese and a remix album).Right now Britney is not selling much,But didn't Circus outusold Rated R even with the huge promo of Chris Brown and 99cents first week download?
And i had forgotton one thing,how many number one albums she has?
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I used to think so at one point, but Rihanna consistently sells 1M albums. Not many artists can do that these days so for her to do that while also having super-successful singles just shows she's a popular artist. But it's crazy how her album came out months ago yet it sells about 30K each week. I'm not stan of her's but you'd be blind to say that's not good.
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