Anti is grouped with artpop, 4, britney jean, and bionic/lotus in terms of apparent floppage yet unlike those other eras, Rih's on her way to her 14th number one soon. Why?
Note also that Anti will be other only "flop" album besides Prism (also deemed a flop by some members on here) to reach platinum status and have a number one hit.
i have no idea why people are calling anti a flop when it's literally only been out for four weeks. there are a lot of albums that haven't started out that impressively and ended up doing really well. anti's promotional campaign has been a huge mess and the tour thing was a disaster, but we can't be sure the album flopped yet. so that's pretty stupid.
and work has actually been doing pretty well. its sales are pretty steady or even increasing after a good debut, and radio seems to be getting on board, so whether anti ends up flopping or not overall i think work will probably still be a hit.
Rihanna is a super strong streaming artist. Plus, Work is a really good catchy song.
The album is still an underperformance. 315k in 2 weeks WW is super low when compared to her peers. Every album in the OP sold more than ANTI in the same amount of time excluding 'Lotus'. Hopefully a string of hit singles will bump the sales up for the album.
Because they literally changed and adjusted the Billboard formula right as this started charting. Plus it features Drake who has been super massive this year
although bragging about anti being platinum and artpop not reaching that is pretty disingenuous, because if the streaming rule had been in effect when artpop was released i'm pretty much positive it would've gone platinum too, since it's not nearly as far away from 1,000,000 as britney jean and bionic are.