See lets stop this right her Loud sold as much as TD, BTW WW in 2010-2011 and is close to 2X plat like those two albums.
Katy and Gaga both didn't release until this year and both will be lucky if they sell as much as Unapologetic.
A lot of Rih's albums could be combined as a single body of work (The Mixtapes, and Una, and TTT) and if we did here album sales per album would be much better.
Madonna released music almost as frequently during her prime and not every album did True Blue numbers.
Madonna's best selling album is her greatest hits compilation followed by her third album. Might be the same case for Rihanna.