LOUD, the album by Rihanna that was released three years before ARTPOP with half the promotion, and half the hype is currently perched dozens of spots above Gaga's latest album ARTPOP. Why?

http://kworb.net/aww/

With Gaga's revitalization and extraordinary impact on TV film and pop culture over the past several months, shouldn't she be above Rihanna; the pop star that has waned in relevancy over the past year?

It was more successful.

Because Rihanna is a real musical legend

ARTPOP was a total flop though. Accept it and move on.

Bigger hits, and she just did Rock In Rio.

PS: She isnt reinventing her music persona tho, she's reinventing her persona in general, she hasnt released music to make her other albums bought.

It had bigger, more memorable singles.

Because Loud is one of the defining albums of the 2010s. It shouldn't be shocking considering it sold more in the UK than ARTPOP sold worldwide.

Bigger era
Bigger hits
Bigger tour
Bigger impact

What an expected thread from you, One Nation.

Brazil has that much impacT on the WW charts?

this

Because Artpop was a flop.

Rihanna is and has always been bigger than gaga, Gaga was only bigger than Rihanna in 2009-2010

that event was livestreamed

Rih is a pop legend.

Because fans are still waiting for R6

In seriousness, LOUD was obviously a lot more successful than ARTPOP - it had a lot of massive hit singles that are still remembered. LOUD was a perfect pop era so I'm glad it's doing well with recurrent sales apparently

We should all know why ARTPOP is so low on the ww albums chart

Yes, they are on the top 10 of the biggest markets.

Fixed

Omg I literally had no idea