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Originally posted by Lein
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this the 1+2+3+4 punch of Umbrella, DSTM, TAB, and then Disturbia made her into a superstar. the Chris incident was just a tabloid headline for a few weeks.
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Before red hair, girls copied this 
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Which she copied from Fefe Dobson. Next
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Originally posted by iHype.
Fame. completely has a point. Rihanna was a non-factor, even if she had 10 or so hits before Chris Brown's incident.
Ke$ha had about 10 back-to-back hits in the same time manner as Rihanna, and look where she's at now? Hits /=/ established.
Rihanna's album sales were pitiful and prove how much the public didn't care about her outside digital singles. MOTS didn't even make T100 selling albums of 2005, A Girl Like Me was the 44th best-selling album of 2006 with 3 T10's, and GGGB as said hasn't even hit 3M despite having almost 10 singles. 
We also know she had no acclaim, couldn't tour, and was almost bankrupt + Rated R literally bombed just a year after that huge era. She was a 100% non-factor outside digital singles. She didn't become a relevant force until Loud.
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GGGB had a 72 MC score RR had 75
Rih has consistently has good album sales, all of them selling 1m+ including her debut.
Her most impressive feat was how global she was and how much she did in such little time. At 24 she was selling out stadiums around the world.
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Literally what evidence do you have for this
EVERYONE was stanning for her during the Umbrella era, I remember them even quoting it on BBC weather that summer. She was huge. |
Everybody blamed her for the horrible floods that summer, it was the reason why it stayed at #1 for 10 weeks. But no one cared about her
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Before its physical release, "Umbrella" achieved the biggest debut in the six-year history of the iTunes Store in the United States, breaking a record previously held by the 2006 single "Hips Don't Lie"
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Wow! No one cared
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Yeah. Umbrella is, without a doubt, the biggest hit of 2007. It is the hit that people remember.
First could never.
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At the 2008 Grammy Awards ceremony, Good Girl Gone Bad received seven Grammy Awards nominations, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Umbrella", Best Dance Recording for "Don't Stop the Music", Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best R&B Song for "Hate That I Love You". It won the accolade for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Umbrella".[128] Additionally, magazine Rolling Stone placed "Umbrella" at number 412 on their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.[129] The album also won the International Album of the Year award at the 2008 Juno Awards.
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What a fop
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Originally posted by collin
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Regarding the commercial impact of the album, Entertainment Weekly's Margeaux Watson wrote, "For a pop star who was once dismissed as being incapable of yielding more than one hit song per album, Rihanna's newfound staying power is nothing short of remarkable–and proof that there’s room for more than one diva in this game."
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One hit wonder!!!!!!1111 Natalie La Rose!!!!!!!
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Rihanna being dashboard'd is the biggest thing she's remembered for
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I mean, I don't know how else to spell this out. Yes, she had some hit songs. But nobody actually cared about RIHANNA, the artist, the person. But then again, you know that's all these girls are used to paying attention to. When you don't stan for talent or anything else "hits" are the only thing that seem relevant and make sense to you. Ah well.
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So she sold 8 million copies of her album in 2008 yet no one cared about her until 2010? What kind of major delusion?
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Originally posted by DrownedWorld
this the 1+2+3+4 punch of Umbrella, DSTM, TAB, and then Disturbia made her into a superstar. the Chris incident was just a tabloid headline for a few weeks. |
Let's not kid ourselves. Fist's mental disease and anger issues played a huge role in Rih's life.
BUT she was already a worldwide superstar, no matter what and how many times a Fist stan tells the opposite.
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Originally posted by conatus
Rihanna has been the queen of the UK for nearly a decade now. Anyone who lives here can tell you this.
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And isn't GGGB in top 40 best selling albums of millennium. 
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Member Since: 9/18/2010
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Originally posted by Cas
Yeah. Umbrella is, without a doubt, the biggest hit of 2007. It is the hit that people remember.
First could never.
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And "Somebody" was one of the biggest hits of 2015. Nobody actually cares about Natalie La Rose though.
"Call me Maybe" was the biggest hit of 2012. Nobody cares about Carly Rae Jepsen.
You can have hits and still not really be cared about lols.
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ATRL told me Ryan Murphy wasn't powerful. THR must be wrong 
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She sold 8 million in 2008.. and how much did she sell 1 year later with Rated R? 
'All these people care about her!' and she struggled to move 1/3 the albums a year later with the biggest press of her entire career.
Selling 8M with 10 singles in the 2000's was nothing amazing, infact, people would've expected more (10M+).
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When Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded was released, the original album received a sales increase of 930%—more than any other non-debuting album in the history of the Billboard 200 chart.[67] By July 2010, it had become the third album in the US whose songs have sold the most copies combined.[81] Its songs have sold over 17,081,000 digital copies, only behind from The Fame Monster (2009) by Lady Gaga and The E.N.D (2009) by The Black Eyed Peas.[81] "Disturbia" and "Take a Bow" were two of its most downloaded songs.[81] Before reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100, "Take a Bow" jumped from number 53 to the top of the chart, following digital sales of 267,000 copies.[35] At the time, it was the second highest leap to number one in the Hot 100's history, followed only by Maroon 5's "Makes Me Wonder" (2007). The song also helped Rihanna achieve two of the top-three digital sales opening weeks; the first one being Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body" (2008) which opened with 286,000 copies sold and the second the singer's own "Umbrella" which sold 277,000 copies for the week dated June 9, 2007.[35] "Disturbia" became Rihanna's fourth number-one single on the Hot 100, which tied her at the time with Beyoncé Knowles and Mariah Carey for the most number-one hits in the decade of 2000–2010.[50]
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She was selling huge amounts of singles, loads of albums, catching up with legends like Beyoncé and Mariah.... meanwhile Chris was her opening act on tour
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Gagnam Style is one of the biggest hits this decade. How many people are checking for PSY?
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