Since Jay-Z, who would clearly know the intricacies of the previous deal and its acceptance by the RIAA, is behind the deal and the article stipulated a figure of 1 million, don't you think it's pretty likely that the deal will count?

I mean, I don't care. $5 million is $5 million and the fact is that $5 million was payed for a million copies. It doesn't matter to me who counts it. But it looks as though it will be counted, until we hear otherwise.

If purchasing 100 copies of the same alber as one single transaction only count as a single copy sold then this Samsung deal should as well.

Same Ol' Mistakes

The best part of the album is SZA and I think that says a lot

Objectively speaking free is good but come one this is ATRL and artists are drag based on their receipts

Rihanna will be dragged accordingly for having 0 sales

The album was worth the wait. She really made a cohesive body of work that defines her . She did good but all the mess wasn't needed

The only reason i'm doubting is is that there is no information on how many copies were purchased. This seems like a free for all thing, which means no specific amount of albums were bought.

Love On The Brain

They can "drag " all they want but album sales weren't on Rih's priority clearly if she decided to give folks the album for free & stick with Tidal. It's not like she was tweeting people to buy her album.

Free is very good for the consumer. But, will Rihanna even benefit from the exposure that releasing music for free gives?

Why is Higher so short?

Hi chemist

Close To You

Ugh this is definitely my fave from the album.

the album is incredibly overwhelming for 3 almost 4 years of waiting. I can't believe she had around 30 songs that she recorded and she picks 13 of (what I think would be) the most underwhelming songs of her entire career (not to mention a ****ing Tame Impala cover of the song that wasn't even released a year ago and is 10x better than her version )

OMG

Poor 99cent This Way