45S was released on a Saturday and sold 53,000 during those last two tracking days. This song probably would have exceeded WB's 170k (?) first-week sum if it were released in a traditional manner.

Queen. Gold in about FourFiveWeeks

Those are not strong numbers, but they are not tragic really.

Was that for two sales periods?

Diamonds was actually released on a Thursday, it's first "week" only consisted of

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

It was short 3 days of sales and still sold 133k in those days

Is that the ecuse the navy will use?That it was released on a Saturday??



Diamonds, WFL, Umbrella >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

45s is obviously underperforming compared to her previous singles.The song won't top her previous 3 lead singles. The Navy should stop using excuses already.

Excuse for what? That's just the truth. It's not like the song has plummeted from the top ten, so it's not "flopping" by any means.

You can't compare Rihanna's lead singles with those 3, and I'm not in the mood to explain why.

*excuse

And it's not an excuse. It's a fact.

Because most of Rihanna's singles are growers rather than typical "instant love" but quickly get tired on radio.

I mean Taylor's on her third single already, which is one single every two months

Whereas Rihanna released Diamonds in September, and Stay/Pour It Up in January, Right Now in June etc. She doesn't peak then drop. It can take up to 3 - 5 months before she moves on to the next single.

Stop acting like you know the truth. This is actually doing better than Diamonds, which was on the edge of the top10 on iTunes at this point in 2012.

Interesting, Top 20 hit next week coming up

so around 200k in 7 and a half day ?