Rihanna has co-existed with Adele and Taylor . During 21 Rihanna got her biggest number one hit WFL. Rihanna got Diamonds during Red and then Stay .. They won't own Rihanna

it sure is convenient how rihanna's sales are apparently from illegal downloads which can't be verified, huh?

tons of people illegally download, and tons of younger people like adele, so this argument is just terrible.

Taylor and ADELE may pass her entire career numbers with their next releases if their albums are big enough

if 21 didn't do it they certainly won't either ....

Plus more legal purchases =/= being more global.

We're talking about two global artists here. Both are global. Both are international. You can't measure who is more global. I'm pretty sure you could find someone in all 196 countries who knows both Rihanna and Adele. We're talking about two global artists here. And accelgors said is completely true. Older people don't know how to download illegally so they purchase legally, whether it be through iTunes or physical CDs.

They don't even have the same target markets how can they disrupt eachothers success?
Rih will do just fine

Rih's only sold like 45M TEAs. She'll probably hop to 50M TEAs, so yeah, it is unlikely Taylor or ADELE will pass her just yet, but they are still gaining fast.

Adele will outsell everyone. Taylor will outsell Rihanna in the US. Rihanna will outsell Taylor everywhere else.

Rihanna will slay single wise! I feel like she will have two number 1 hits this era and acouple top10's I think she misses music and the GPmiss her a lot. If she plays her cards right we can have another 5 million selling album from her with atleast 1.5 million US album sales. I also bet her R8 tour figures will be huge. She is seriously coming at us. Taylor will probably go 2.5 million us copies for her next era ad internationally maybe 4 million which is amazing. Adele will get to 9-13 million world wide. Ppl forget that album sales have dropped ridiculously this year tbh.

I would not be surprised to be honest.

In album sales, of course she'll be owned by both of them. She's the only one with a nearly guaranteed smash lead single though, so she'll continue excelling in that department.

we will see

Could you just shut your mouth and buy Birthday on iTunes please?