Discussion: Rihanna will pass Madonna in #1 BB Hits soon. Surprised? - Page 7

THEBEASTWITHIN

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Originally posted by MaRy

But she used to release 5-6 singles from every album so she had singles out every year and there was no illegal download to curtail those sales

Neither that was a chance/possibility of buying a single just by turning on your computer

Mariah4life

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Originally posted by Riha'love

Mariah is next.

It will take some years tho.

You're acting as if she will "ALWAYS" be the "IT" girl even 5 years from now.

ViTiLiGO

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Originally posted by Mariah4life

You're acting as if she will "ALWAYS" be the "IT" girl even 5 years from now.

Aw i remember when people would say she would be a one hit wonder, now her name is next to the legends.

Mariah4life

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Originally posted by Britney Is Fierce

The New Queen Of Pop! Madonna is NOTHING compared to her, Madonna SUCKS and her legacy is BULLSH!T, Rihanna is so much better than her because she has 13 #1's while Madonna has only 12, she's a flop and Rihanna is the QUEEN!

someone went in.

Shadow_Halo

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Originally posted by liberalmusiclover

LOL. All you needed was airplay to go #1 back then. Today you need airplay, digital sales, on-demand streaming, and video streaming. There's a reason why only Rihanna, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, and Maroon 5 have been snatching #1s so easily this decade. The formula is much more complicated. It's just that Rihanna is so revered by the GP which helps her slay so effortlessly.

That is not true. Sales counted for the Hot 100 formula, singles didn't chart if a physical copy wasn't available for purchase. There are many examples of songs with huge airplay in the 90s that went number one on the Airplay chart but didn't chart on the Hot 100 because of this rule: "Iris", "Don't Speak", "Torn" , "Lovefool", "Mr. Jones", or "I'll Be There for You".

One of Madonna's biggest songs, "Into the Groove" was huge in 1985, but it didn't chart because a physical single wasn't released in the US.

RudeBoy™

no it's not because it's Rihanna. Madge is legendary and the overall Queen, so they're both in great standings.

One Nation

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Originally posted by Last Boy on Earth

Another record snatched by the supposed "queen of pop", I'm starting to think she isn't that big as people make her out to be, or maybe it's just Rih that is too colossal and not even the "queen of pop" can compare. Congratulations for yet another accomplishment in your 25 years of life and 8 years of career, my perfect Queen

TSGH

Madonna has sold something like 200 million albums. How many times would Rihanna have to die and resurrect to even be in that zip code?

chilluminati

Some of y'all are so embarrassing.

M!X

Nope, records are there to be broken.

Indigo Blue

Power

No, that isn't surprising. Rihanna is huge on the Hot 100.

Retro

Not at all. Rihanna is a massive force on modern radio, which was much less important back in Madonna's peak charting days, and has relatively strong average sales per release. It's a different market nowadays, and Rihanna leads it alongside Katy Perry when it comes to the Hot 100. Even the top Hot 100 records will likely be broken soon enough, at the rate Rihanna and Katy are going.

BajanBeauty

Nope not surprised, but even tho I stan for Rih, Madonna will always be superior to her.
- And after all Madonna is one of Rihs biggest inspirations so each time Rih does break her record I look at it as a job well done.

ToMmY

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Originally posted by TSGH

Wake me when she surpasses her album sales.

Basically.

Donquizote

I like Rihanna but she needs to work harder to pass Queen Madge in album and tour departments