ARTPOP SOLD, not streamed, 600K+ WW in its first week with a huge backlash and the entire media against her. 4 did 300K+ in the US after being leaked months before (probably downloaded by more than 1M in that time) even Jay released an album after giving away 1M free copies and sold 500K. ANTi hasn't even sold 400K real copies WW after a month and it has a number one single, something NONE of those others had.
Why is there such a double standard? Bey and Gaga did their "flop" numbers with ***SOLO HITS*** while Rihanna has needed a trendy rapper on all of her top 10's since 2012. Her last solo single peaked at 78 on the H100.
It's just not adding up for me, can y'all weigh in?
ANTI is a flop right now but it will probably turn out to just be an underperformance. ARTPOP is in between a flop and underperformance. 4 is just an underperformance.
Gaga and Beyonce's flop is what is success for Rihanna I guess.
I guess so, seeing as a creative bitch has been around 11 years, and only has one multiplatinum album, while the big girls have similar album sales with half the releases.
cause Rihanna and Gaga/Beyonce are different kind of stars. Rihanna has huge GP support and smaller stanbase while Gaga and Bey have huge stanbase hence why their sales are often frontloaded cause of huge base buying it right after its released. So Rihanna's 200k in debut week is like Beyonce's 350k or Gaga's 500k