Even with a movie, 5 no. 1 singles, a rerelease and an era that lasted more than two years Katy still couldn't do it
Seriously, tho, if Loud had 8 top 3 singles, it would have sold like 10m WW It's still impressive tho and Katy can still sell, this is just a poll and I can choose one.
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Prism has outsold Unapologetic in the US
and is coming for its WW sales.
She doesnt sell more than Katy.
For the amount of effort Katy has put into this era, I would hope so. Unapologetic just sort of happened, with little fanfare, too quickly after Talk That Talk. I didn't expect it to match TTT's sales. She didn't put appreciably more effort or promotion into this era. But here we are. Unapologetic is her third biggest album and it was relatively effortless. Katy has barely improved on her selling power since Teenage Dream despite scoring two huge hits in a row and being a constant radio/youtube/TV presence.
Definitely Rihanna. If Katy released yearly her sales would be nowhere near as good as Rih's. I mean LOUD (a one year era) had no where near the amount of promotion Teenage Dream had and the era was half as short & still sold more. + the last time Rihanna spent more than a year on an album & re release it, (GGGB) it sold 8-9M where as Katy's massive era wit a re release & movie sold 5M.
Good Girl Gone Bad has sold more than all three of Katy's studio albums combined. Also, Rihanna's most recent album Unapologetic has sold more than Prism with less bigger hits.
Seeing as Rihanna released Loud in '10 (over 6 million sold globally), Talk That Talk in '11 (over 3.5 million sold globally) and Unapologetic in '12 (nearly 4 million sold globally) within the same time span it took Katy to sell 6 million (may I add the SAME amount Loud sold within a year of its release) it ain't too hard to decide.
Seriously, tho, if Loud had 8 top 3 singles, it would have sold like 10m WW It's still impressive tho and Katy can still sell, this is just a poll and I can choose one.
I mean let's not even talk about the promo both of them put in their eras and how messy rih's are.
I mean one always plays it safe releasing generic music obviously written and catered for the masses and still releases videos for the songs on time and perfoms on about every platform while the other isn't afraid to be risky, doesn't give videos to all her songs or releases the video 6 mnths plus and still doesn't promote her singles as the other yet manages to outsell her worldwide