While lady gaga and katy are being dragged for singles failing to make it into the top 10, why does it seem that people are ignoring the countless number of singles that underperformed from Rihanna?

Is it because of her lack of promo being an excuse for the underperformance?

Because the queen is always smashing left and right.

Her hit to flop ratio isnt as bad as the other girls.

Because she has just as many hit singles to balance out the flops.

Because she still has an excellent hit to flop ratio

The songs are not promoted like katy and gags.

Some were exclusive urban singles, others didnt even have a video let alone a performance.

Her underpermances are due strictly to her not promoting and moving on from eras so quickly, which is more forgivable than having a flop that was promoted to the high heavens which Katy and Gaga have done in the past, especially Gaga.

And also because she's the queen of pop

Because by the time we notice that her singles are underperforming she's about to release a new album.

She hasn't had that many.

She released so many singles that you can't even notice these flops.

You can ask that about every other fave. Most artists have a successful lead single then a weak second single and hopefully a strong third. Katy had an anonymity with Teenage Dream.

Meanwhile Rihanna last album had a #1, a song that didn't hit #1 but is her second highest selling single, and a single that had little to no promo except for a video that came out 10 months later and still managed to sell 3 million copies.

But both katy's and gaga's hit to flop ratio are equally as impressive right?

Cuz Rihanna's flops generally did not get any promo (like Right Now, Cockiness)
Cuz Rihanna can easily smash with the next song again. It's no indication her career is declining.
Cuz Rihanna never fully flops everywhere. Man Down flopped in the US but it was a #1 single in France for example. She's so global

This.

The ICON usually has a legitimate excuse for all ha underperformers. Then she just follows it up with a smash and its all forgotten.

so you guys agree that the lack of promo is indeed a valid excuse for underperformance?

Yaaas even if she flops in the U.S. the queen is smashing in some other part of the globe like the global queen she is. Even her non singles smash in other parts of the world with absolutely 0 promotion

Cause Rihanna has a million singles that already went #1

But honestly Rihanna is forgiven for alot of crap so what do you expect