By the way, some people may think that I'm a hater. I'm not. I used to be a huge fan but I just can't stand this era, of course, some songs are good, BUT THIS IS NOT RIHANNA!
Bash me if you want to, but remember I'm not a hater. Just wanted to clear that up.
She's a huge international superstar, she's coming off a widely successful album, had HUGE "coming-back-from-beatdown" hype, tons of promotion(including the 8 million watched 20/20 interview), released 3 singles, and was selling the album for 99 cent on Amazon, not to mention BLACK FRIDAY & this holiday season, and the fact she's being beaten by 3 NEW artist & possibly an album that's been out for 3 weeks is sad for her status.....
....So YES, 200k this first week is a flop for HER(being the big artist she is) thus far..
By the way, some people may think that I'm a hater. I'm not. I used to be a huge fan but I just can't stand this era, of course, some songs are good, BUT THIS IS NOT RIHANNA!
Bash me if you want to, but remember I'm not a hater. Just wanted to clear that up.
This is the best thing anyone said about this album.
It's exactly what I think too.
Changing my signature to this tmw.
OMG! well the cover of the album is horrible!
I will love to listen the album but I haven't and also let's see how the album is doing worlwide after GGGB she became a worldwide superstar sooo she will def not flop WW at least more than 400k reaching the 500k will be ok and def not a flop, if it's less than 300k WW well yeah it's a flop.
also I think now is more important to get more hit singles soo then the album end up selling great and that's what makes a successful era just with a week on we can't call that the album a flop.
Let's see what happend to Riri in 2010 and as I always said it was going to be very hard for her to top her GGGB era.
180k is a flop? I would say that's a good opening. Even if her last album spawned dozens of hits. You've gotta realize times aren't good at all for album sales unless you Swift or Boyle apparently. Even GGGB barely sold over 2 million with it's strand of smashes. Rihanna is a singles artist and there's nothing wrong with that. As long as her singles are still doing something, which "Hard" is set to be a decent sized hit, then who really cares how much the album sells?
the hair is part of the image of every pop star soo yeah it's important and when your a female is even wayyy more important soo yeah I agree it does NOT look good on her maybe if she gest a new hair-do, more femenine remember she's a girl not a boy, at least few more people will like to go and buy her album that way
also the cover OMG! is horrendous!! of all pics I've seen of the photoshoot the worst one is on the cover! another important point if they want people to go and buy the record.
It's easy now a days to everyone just download the album from the internet and that's it but artist need to put more effort on those little things like the photos (the cover most important), they're image which include the hair and which is an important thing.
If Def Jam collectively had a brain and decided to release either Fire Bomb, Rude Boy, Te Amo, or Rockstar 101 instead of Russian Roulette then maybe this wouldn't have happened