I mean, she's the only one at her age, 26 years old, with that massive, diverse, unique set of global hits, being about to pass 200 million songs worldwide, over 7 billion views of her videos and collab. videos on VEVO, not to mention immense TV, radio airplay, etc. etc.

So with all that taken into consideration, is it safe to say Rihanna is the most popular singer on the planet nowadays?

Yes.

Definitely

no that would be katy perry like multiple publications have said.

YAS ! with that amount of hits it's save to say that she's the Madonna of our generation

this is going to be messy btw. lemme leave.

Katy Perry doesn't have half the musical impact or global coverage that Rihanna has.

Beyonce & Katy say no

People are only saying katy because she's slaying right now with generic pop music.
Just wait till Rih serves us R8 and introduces a new genre of music becoming one of the biggest pop stars in world history

Nope.

Yes, tbh.

Yes Bey but not Katy LOL. She's successful but not impressive in anything

Ha!

No, Adele or Demi are.

katy's been in the industry shorter than rihanna and has almost already covered with 3 albums with what rihanna has done with 8 (9? i've lost count) albums. the prismatic tour is katy's 2nd tour only and is already on the road to outgrossing rihanna's diamond tour not to mention katy has more memorable singles and more solo number 1's facts speak for themselves.

katy perry is the madonna of the generation except she'll be much bigger because she's incredibly talented, is beautiful and has the likability factor

If Beyonce, Pink, Adele, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, 1D and Rihanna were to all drop an album on the same day. Where would she land? There's your answer.

Nope. She is pretty big in Europe, though.

One of them.