YES YES YES!
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She's struggling with her songs.
It is her worst selling lead single despite featuring two huge names, Kanye West and Paul.
Let's see how much BBHMM sells

Music not good

wasn't gonna say anything, but

the problem comes from the style she s trying to get away with... people were used to the dancefloor/pop rihanna too much. this will be her lowest selling album after her debut;

anyway the era wasn't built to be a hit era. Adele will be the IT GIRL of 2015 and if she's not releasing someone else will snatch it. Bruno & Adele are going to be massive next eras. I just hope they release the same period so they let free field for other acts to shine.

not you calling rolling in the deep folk with that massive pop-radio-friendly chorus

Diamonds, Stay, Pour it Up are dancefloor Rihanna I guess.

plus American Toxic is not that good either. 4.5 seconds was cute but Kanye West was being a mess in it. she should ve sung it by herself. BBHMM is fun and will probably save the album first weeks sales. Idk what are the 10 other songs on the album though so let's wait. she maybe has greater songs there who knows?

Towards the Sun is a good song though.

45S is top5 for 9 weeks in UK ... how long was applause ? Bye
45S went no1 to Australia where Diamonds and We Found Love didn't
BBHMM went no1 on US iTunes within the first day when aaaaaaaaaaallllllllll Rihanna's songs need radio push and time !
Applause was a pointless song when 45S is a masterpiece for concerts
BYE

not all of you talking about kanye being so huge while his last #1 was what? e.t., as a featured artist.
he's not gonna give rihanna any big success in singles just because he's featured.

Diamonds jumped on the Sia-style who was being extremely succesful with WILD ONES, etc....
Stay is a riskless POP song.
Pour It Up didn't smash that much + it was a rip off of Bandz A Make Her Dance which was an urban smash hit.

bottom line is Rihanna has always chosen ease....now that she's trying to make it artistic or whatever her public is a bit lost but I'm pretty sure she'll recover. SHE won't go on this way unless she wants to finish like Nelly Futardo.

45s wasnt good and BBHM is urban

It sure didn't sound like a masterpiece at the March madness tho.

Well I'm certain 4,5's chorus was crafted with the intention that it'd be just as pop friendly.

And it's easy to call RITD pop friendly now that it's a hit. But who would of ever expected that prior to its release? Hardly Adele's niche market. And certainly dissimilar to everything else at radio at the time.

Then why didn't Pretty Hurt smash? lol please
Plus Diamonds is Sia's biggest hit. That tells a LOT.

Stay riskless? K. What's supposed to be a risky ballad then? Halo? If I Were A Boy?

Pour it Up didn't smash. Platinum without video/promo and Spotify release... lol bye.

She's definately going to finish like Nelly Furtado, poor her

GP responded well to 45S but this obviously isn't the Rih music everyone wanted/expected