Artists who have all outsold Gaga w/ARTPOP domestically within the last few years:
Taylor Swift
Beyonce
Eminem
Jay-Z
Drake
Kendrick Lamar
J. Cole
Sam Smith
Miley Cyrus
Katy Perry
Imagine Dragons
Barbra Streisand
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

and a slew of others.

Good thing she's 'global'. Really, the only country that still used was Japan.

Not at all.
All of her albums open well at #1 for a reason.

Just because all your faves are local and US sales are the only thing you know Cap10 doesn't mean that people can't sell albums outside the US.

Prism had Roar
Beyonce has the surprise relase hype and DIL
TD has Cali Gurls and TD

All those albums were launched with huge hits . There is no way around this she is selling up to par with her peers ..

I don't know how this album with debut . But Rih will go platnuim and especially with streaming now

so rih's 7th album was "on par! " with katy's 3rd? hm.

I don't brag about WW sales because most are inaccurate, hard to track and inflated. At least we have a legit metric to track US sales. But death @ Gaga dropping ALL THE WAY down to 2 million in such a short period of time.

rihanna trolls are really funny .

Gonna need the Kanye and Rihanna tour tickets to go on sale soon.

Why didn't Rihanna save the music industry like the Navy told us she would? Thank god for Taylor Swift.

Oh my bad . GGGB has surpassed Prism and that's her third album . either way Rih wins

Katy will be lucky by her 7th album if she can pull UNA numbers .

Loud had WMN, Only Girl, etc.
TTT had the GIGANTIC WFL
Una had Diamonds/Stay

R8 has 45S (meh)... idk, none of the snippets have really stuck with me. I have to hear it in full.

Because she's built a loyal fan base for herself, and a lot of artists go #1 without any hype. Doubt her next album will go 3m+. I mean, BEYONCE had soooo much hype and it stopped selling around 3.4m (I think).

I legitimately hope R8 does well but it's kind of funny to see the Navy back-tracking after 45S. They have always been more cocky than the Monsters and Hive combined.

It's even more impressive when you think about how most of the promo was based in the US.

Honey, this was my first post in SYG of the night. You **** are CLEARLY talking about Rihanna, so you can miss me with that ****, miss bitch.

Are Kayla and them in here? Cause the only time you can get any sort of attention from basically anyone in here is when you copy their posts.

So in the future, refrain from quoting me if you have nothing important to say, love.

Well here is where you are wrong .

WFL is arguably her biggest hit and TTT only opened with 198k
LOUD opened with 207k with OG
UNA opened with 236k with just Diamonds .

Her lead singles how successful don't indicate her opening weeks .