Originally posted by Zano How is that shade? In fact she only sold 460 copies first week. Men lie, women lie, numbers don't. The album "Anti" is a FLOP.

Originally posted by istan4badgalriri NEEDED ME Australia: Platinum Canada: 2x Platinum Italy: Platinum New Zealand: Platinum Sweden: Platinum USA: 3x Platinum Denmark: Gold UK: Silver (about to reach Gold) 360M streams on Spotify worldwide (190M outside of the US). It was never sent to international radios, though. Also... ANTI sold more copies internationally than in the US : 562,000 sold US / 798,000 sold internationally (1.36M WW). Some albums released this year have sold more locally than internationally (Views, Lemonade, Blonde etc.). "Views" sold 1.53M in the US & 900k outside of the US.

Originally posted by istan4badgalriri Sales: Work = best selling single by a female this year (1.73M) Needed Me = about to cross 1M sales in the US ANTI = 3rd best selling album released in 2016, 2nd by a female Radio: Work = #1 Urban & Rhythmic, Top 10 Pop, #2 overall radio (160M AI) Needed Me = #1 Urban/Rhy, Top 15 Pop, #8 overall radio (115M AI) Tour: North American arena tour grossed $1M per night on average, $42M total in NA (her highest grossing to date), world tour expected to gross $100M+ with 67 dates.

Originally posted by pieuxvu Not when a local R&B singer like Beyoncé can easily fill stadiums WW and made 5M+ per night without a hit single.

Originally posted by pieuxvu Work and Needed Me help the album stay in top 10 for awhile. But in the end of the day, it only sold 600k and the tour is less successful than her previous tour. So I guess you know the answer.

Beyoncé has been in the industry since the 1990s - let's see where Rihanna is when she's almost 25-years into her career - also take into consideration that Beyonce's strength is her performances. She's clearly hailed as the greatest living performer from our time.

Anti's chart performance has been much better than Lemonade's. Many more hits have come out of the Anti era; in comparison to the Lemonade era. The Anti era has been objectively more successful.

OP: Obviously not.

No

The fact that people bought the album even after it was sold for free says a lot, plus a 9-week #1 hit.

Originally posted by Zano Yes. She only sold 460 copies first week.

Originally posted by Zano First week honey, first week!

I never knew people could be this dumb.

Originally posted by pieuxvu Not when a local R&B singer like Beyoncé can easily fill stadiums WW and made 5M+ per night without a hit single.

Originally posted by AALIYAH DANA Yes. Wasn't this her first album since music of the sun to NOT scan platinum in pure sales? Plus the worldwide sales,chart positions and certifications are tragic the only reason people are saying yes is because of the success of work but let's not forget that the other singles were local hits (needed me) or FLOPPED in general (kiss it better)