Huffington Post: Rihanna NOT Best Selling Blk Artist
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1) Madonna (400 million)
2) Celine Dion (300 million)
3) Mariah Carey (300 million)
4) Whitney Houston (280 million)
5) Rihanna (260 million)
6) Britney Spears (260 million)
7) Janet (200 million)
8) Beyonce (190 million Solo) 5) 270 million total w/ Destiny’s Child))
9) Lady gaga (190 million)
10) Taylor Swift (180 million)
Earlier this year, Roc Nation made several claims that their record label ‘queen’ Rihanna has crossed over 250 million records worldwide and became the Best-selling black female artist of all time & the 2nd best-selling female artist overall. This claim demoted the holy trinity, Whitney, Mariah, & Celine to 3rd, 4th, & 5th overall sellers. After selling over 35 million albums worldwide (60 million with streams & shipments) and over 100 million singles (200 million with SPS), Rihanna has accumulated over 260 million units to her name.
A collaboration of Record…Albums, Singles, Ringtones, Videos, DVDs, Streams, & Track Equivalent are all considered a RECORD. It doesn’t matter if an artist sold 50 million albums & 200 million singles versus an artist who sold 100 million albums and 75 million singles. The artist with 50 million albums & 200 million singles sold more RECORDS, despite selling less albums.
Im sorry but..... ehem... beyonce counting DC? Lol
Anyway... that is without her collabos I guess.... coz she was at 250M before the era started... and she sold 8M singles from Anti + 2.8M SPS albums + 6M from TIWYCF + 3M from TG + 1M singles from other collabos. That means at least 21M records to add.... that is without any catalog sales or streaming adding sales.... which is fake.
People wanna say DC doesn't count for Beyonce but then they want to turn around and say her solo debut is less impressive because she was already famous as being the head of a mega-successful group.