Her album sales are impressive. But compared to her single sales they just don't hold up. All of her albums should be selling like GGGB, but they aren't. Ultimately I wouldn't call her a singles artist, but she isn't an album artist either. She's just successful. Which is good, it works for her. We will see how R8 does.
Happy to see all your opinions and us coming together for a nice healthy discussion but I ain't seeing the receipts
TTT sold a little more than 3million copies world wide and had the biggest hit of her career WFL that according to ATRL sold over 9million copies you make the math.
Let's do the same with UNA, she had diamonds and stay plus the monster yet it's stuck at 3,5 million. We could compare it to Beyoncé's lates effort or 1Ds and you would see the difference. There is a reason the why singe artist have stuck around for a while.
+ the "she sold that much because she releases yearly" excuse is tired and stupid, considering she cuts every era short in less than one year, whereas certain girls drag every era with hype and promo for as long as 3 years and still sold less albums (and singles) overall than Rihanna!